PERTH-based Quality Sheet Metals has installed a Power Machinery-supplied QIH Adira press brake at its factory.
Quality Sheet Metals offers a range of services from processing, rolling and guillotining to general sheet metal work and medium plate fabrication.
It decided on the QIH Adira press brake system as its response to the growing need for larger and thicker than average metal components, particularly in the mining sector.
The QIH Adira press brake system was supplied by Power Machinery. It gives 1500t of bending capability, measures six metres in lengths, and is over 5.5m high.
The machine can roll out up to 7.5m lengths due to a big open throat and the design of the machine which has both ends open. It can handle bisalloy and hard oxide sheets up to 50mm in width, allowing sheets to be rolled rather than welded for quicker jobs.
Quality Sheet Metals also opted for the DNC controlled crowning table to provide additional bending angle consistency, and the press brake is controlled by a Cybelec CNC.
To install the large press brake system, Quality Sheet Metals had to remove the roof of the factory, and get a 240t crane to lift the unit in from above.
The Adira press brake has now been running for two months. Quality Sheet Metals is cautious of the current economic climate but notes the machine gives the company an edge over the competition in terms of its capabilities, allowing it to get more jobs.