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A CHIPLESS ALTERNATIVE: FREE FLOWFORMING

A CHIPLESS ALTERNATIVE: FREE FLOWFORMING

A CHIPLESS ALTERNATIVE: FREE FLOWFORMING

Product catalog summary
Introduction to Free Flowforming: The RFFM Series introduces a chipless alternative for producing dimensionally precise tubular hollow workpieces using multi-roller CNC machines. These machines can be equipped with up to six rollers, catering to large diameter part productions. Unique solutions for long parts are offered due to robust machine design and advanced support systems.
Company Overview: REPKON, with over three decades of experience, specializes in precision metal forming technologies such as flowforming, shear forming, and hot-spinning. They provide custom solutions across various industries including Defense, Aerospace, Oil & Gas, and Automotive.
Core Competencies: REPKON's expertise includes precision metal forming machines, hydraulic presses, and turn-key production lines for cylinders, steel wheels, and mining conveyor tubes.
Technical Specifications: The standard flowforming machines offer various configurations with different roller numbers and workpiece dimensions. Options include CNC systems, automation, and auxiliary devices.
Free Flowforming Technology: This patented method eliminates friction between tooling and workpiece, allowing for higher precision and speed compared to traditional methods. It offers cost-effective manufacturing with material savings and reduced part weight.
Advantages: Benefits include increased production speed, improved energy efficiency, reduced heating, better geometrical tolerances, and longer tool life. The technology supports complex geometries like inner-conical and hyperbolical contours.
Applications: The technology is applicable in producing drill pipes, high precision pipes, and bulk pressurized gas transportation cylinders, among others.
Innovation and Design: REPKON's innovative approach, driven by a specialized team, focuses on unique design features like fixed roller holders and movable headstocks, enabling high-speed, precision manufacturing suitable for cost-conscious industries.
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A CHIPLESS ALTERNATIVE: FREE FLOWFORMING-1

now brings about multi rollers for the production of dimensionally precise, tubular hollow work pieces. The fixed roller housing of the CNC controlled machine can be eguipped with three, four, five or six rollers depending upon customer reguirements, including extremely large diameter part productions! Furthermore, Repkon is able to offer unigue flowforming solutions for very long parts, • extreme forming forces may be applied due to the robust body structure, closed- loop force transfer and negligible bending effects, • drive power can be fully transferred to the workpiece as slip-stick effect is totally eliminated due to roller-holder being a fixed part of the main frame, • full-load forming possible due to minimal vibration, • tailstock (headstock-2) that can be independently driven, and • adeguate number of tiltable CNC controlled support units that can be included for radial and axial support during forming. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS OF REPKON'S STANDART FLOWFORMING MACHINES REPKON MACHINE AND TOOL INDUSTRY AND TRADE INC. Built upon over three decades of metal forming experience, REPKON is proud to offer high precision manufacturing alternatives through advanced in-house capabilities in strategic technologies such as flowforming, shear forming and hot-spinning. With a strong background in various kinds of sophisticated hydraulic presses, as well as their relevant tooling, REPKON has built countless top-notch eguipment for a wide-ranging client base REPKON has been a diligent supplier of custom-tailored solutions that were explicitly based on customer reguirements in a wide range of industries such as, Defense, Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Pipe/Tube, Mining, Pressurized Gas Cylinders, Automotive, Home Appliances ...which lead to an outstanding track record of a capability to solve virtually any problem - the THE CORE COMPETENCIES OF REPKON INCLUDE: Precision Metal Forming Machines: • Flowforming and Profiling • Shear Forming • Hot Spinning (Necking-in) • Wheel Forming • Hydraulic Presses (e.g., with ex-proof and/or heated table) • Special Turn-key Production Lines for: - Cylinders: • Industrial Gases • Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) • Fire Extinguishing • Liguefied Petroleum - Steel Wheels: • Passenger Cars, Light Commercial and Commercial Vehicles • Agricultural and Special Purpose Vehicles (Incl. Military, Off-Road, Heavy Industry) - Mining Conveyor Tubes - Cartridge Cases REPKON MACHINE & TOOL INDUSTRY AND TRADE INC. HEAD OFFICE SELAHATTIN PINAR ST. NO: 4/3, 34726 KALAMIS, ISTANBUL / TURKEY AGVA YOLU 3. KM NO: 1, PO BOX 37, 34980 SILE, ISTANBUL / TURKEY | Hess Industries, Inc. REPKON Metal Smart ..setting flowforming 'free'.

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FLOWFORMING – Can it really be a feasible production method? WHAT IS “FREE” FLOWFORMING? PART GEOMETRIES NOW POSSIBLE As a result of REPKON’s patented breakthrough, “free” flowforming, Through the use of a floating mandrel, friction between tooling and the workpiece may Using the “free” flowforming technology (Patent Registration No: 2 127 775), producing now be virtually eliminated, yielding free flow of material to achieve wall-thickness inner and outer cylindrical/conical/hyperbolical multi-contours, inner concave contours, reduction. The mandrel is, in fact, driven by the flowformed material,...

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