Thick plate strategies in The Fabricator

Bending plate is not a process that metal fabricators consider to be a highly efficient one. The blanks typically are large and awkward to handle. Fortunately, the proper tooling strategies can help.

3/10/2014

As fabricators experience increased demand for heavy-plate forming services for the shipbuilding, structural steel, and heavy equipment industries, they need to improve thick-plate bending throughput.

For a long time fabricators created these forms made from high-tensile-strength materials using roll forming equipment and welding segments together. However, this method can be both time-consuming and costly.

March 09, 2014