{"id":1648,"date":"2017-10-09T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2017-10-09T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:57:11","slug":"high-speed-robotic-bending-cell-and-punching-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/high-speed-robotic-bending-cell-and-punching-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"High-speed robotic bending cell and punching centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Alpha Manufacturing<\/a><\/span>, one of the UK\u2019s largest precision sheet metal fabricators, has ordered a TruBend Cell 7000 high-speed robotic bending cell and TruPunch 5000 CNC punching centre from TRUMPF.<\/p>\n

The \u00a31 million investment complements the acquisition last year of a TRUMPF TruLaser 3030 fibre CNC laser profiling centre, and helps keep the company on track to achieve its \u20182020 Vision\u2019 \u2013 a five-year plan to double turnover by 2020.<\/p>\n

Established in 1989, Alpha Manufacturing is a privately-owned business and part of the Bri-Stor Group.<\/p>\n

The 100+ employee company, which is based at a purpose-built 65,000ft\u00b2 facility near Stafford, processes a wide range of materials in thicknesses from 0.5 to 25mm, from prototype quantities up to batch sizes of thousands.<\/p>\n

Sectors served include construction, automotive, energy, lighting, electrical, security and medical, to list but a few.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have for some time admired the TruBend Cell 7000 from afar, but had resisted as all of our existing bending machines [press brakes] are from another supplier,\u201d explains Operations Director Paul Clews. \u201cHowever, with press brake skills becoming increasingly hard to source, we knew it made sense to look closely at more automated solutions. At first we considered press brakes with automatic tool changers, but these did not compare with the TruBend Cell 7000. In my opinion, there is nothing else like it on the market.\u201d
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