Faccin Group: Growing its metal rolling solutions

Over the last few years, customer requirements for plate bending machines have increased considerably. Bending machines are essential within factories and choosing the right model can make a huge difference in production costs saving, especially in the current geopolitical situation.

In response to new and more demanding market requests, companies have geared up with new machinery to stay competitive, requesting the best product on the market to increasing bending efficiency. Faccin Group, one of the most important metal forming machine manufacturers in the world, has embraced this challenge and can propose to its customers tailored cutting-edge products, for all market needs. Indeed, the Group has always tried to differentiate its offer and to satisfy multiple requirements, building energy-efficient machinery for different sectors.

Faccin Group: an all-encompassing specialist

Faccin Group, has become a reference point in metal forming technology, offering an extensive range of machines, thanks to its three brands: Faccin, Boldrini e Roundo. Each brand brings its own specific technical features, all having in common energy-efficient systems, state of the art CNC controls and electronics and top of the range hydraulic set-ups.

As of today, Faccin Group has successfully installed more than 30,000 units worldwide and its machines are used to manufacture a wide variety of products, including pressure vessels, heat exchangers, road and railway tanks, natural gas pipelines and wind towers.

A wide range of plate rolling machines

Faccin products, especially plate rolls, are capable of bending steel sheets of different thicknesses, offering the highest precision and elevated productivity, with energy efficiency. Most plate rolling machines can be divided into five major families, suitable for different needs and situations:

• 2-Rolls model HCU: the ideal solution to roll thin plates thickness up to 3/16’’ (5mm) and width up to 6 1/2’ (2000mm) at a high speed from 180 to 300 pieces per hour.
• 3-Rolls ASI (asymmetric): with asymmetrical rollers and a single infeed, the ASI electromechanical plate roll is suitable for basic production and rolling of steel sheets up to 3/8” (10mm).
• 3-Rolls 3HEL (Linear Guides) and 3HEP (Swing Arms): a perfect fit for all metal carpentry’s needs.
• 3-Rolls model HAV (Variable Geometry): the most technologically advanced three-roll bending machines available worldwide, they are perfect for medium and heavy-duty rolling requirements from 1.6’’ (40mm) to over 12’’ (300mm) thickness and specific applications such as Pressure Vessels, Offshore Foundations for the Wind Industry, Offshore Platforms, Reactors and Heat Exchangers.
• 4-Rolls 4HEL (Linear Guides) and 4HEP (Swing Arms): highly technological and innovative, it assures high productivity in bending plates from less than 3’ (1mt) and up to 33’ (10mts) with thickness from 3/16’’ (5mm) to 6’’ (150mm). It is the best solution for Tanks, Pressure Vessels and Wind Tower production.
• 4HEL Plate Rolls, are Faccin’s primary solution for automatic lines due to their high rolling speed, extreme precision, and tight tolerances that together with a series of ad hoc accessories like loading devices, feeding tables, and a powerful CNC, ensure the full automation of plate rolling in the factory.

Besides plate rolls, it is also important to consider, a key part of Faccin Group’s product offer, is profile benders, available in different sizes to meet the different needs for bending structural beams, profiles of different sections in steel, stainless steel, and aluminium. Depending on the capacities and work intensity required, the Group can offer:

• The Faccin RCMI series, are robust and precise, designed for bending profiles and angles with high flexion strength modulus.
• The Roundo R series, versatile and highly productive, adapted to handle a great variety of bending jobs, being the larger models optimized for bending beams the hard-way.
• The Faccin Taurus model, with variable geometry, an oversized machine suitable for bending large beams and heavy-duty carpentry work.

With the addition of the Boldrini brand products to its widely known Faccin Dished head production line, the Group has widened the offer to become the absolute leader in solutions for the dished end manufacturers, either for those that fabricate and commercialize dished ends as their main activity or for those that fabricate heads for their internal production of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, industrial tanks, or truck tanks. Customers can then choose either or a combination of: Boldrini dishing press, manipulator, and flanging machines, designed to ensure the fastest return of investment through high productivity and energy efficient design.

Faccin dishing press, manipulator and flanging machines, high performance, and reliability, to achieve the required tolerances and lamination reduction.

Faccin Group’s catalogue also includes special machines, built to the specific requirements of different customers. These tailored machines for a diverse range of industries, are the Group’s response to very challenging projects, and designed by the company’s highly experienced technical department.