New Corner Former Multi-Flex Technology

UNIVERSAL-TOOLING GIVES HIGH FLEXIBILITY ON DEMAND

Individual panel/door fabrication

Why weld when you can corner form?

The solution for individual panel/door fabrication: ACP Cornerformer-Multiflex

New UNIVERSAL-TOOLING allows individual panel/door fabrication, unaffected by:

• material
• material thickness
• bend height of panel

No panel size limitation

FOR INDIVIDUAL CORNERS
applications & machine layout

MULTIPURPOSE PANEL/DOOR FABRICATION

doors for electrical cabinets (enclosures), claddings, panels, box covers, trays, container covers, lids, cooking trays, ceilings, oven doors, suitcase covers, furnitures, pizza oven doors, bottom pans for dehumidifiers and similar parts

ACF Corner Former Applications

The variety for individual requirements

Special Corner Angles:
minimum 45° up to maximum 150°

Special Corner Radius:
minimum 2mm up to maximum 100mm

Special Corner Notches

Special Corner Designs

DOOR for electrical cabinet -
large reverse flange

WALLCOVER - enameled for tunnels
MILD STEEL - deep draw material

COVER - heavy gauge

COVER for icemaking machine
MILD STEEL - galvanized

COVER for suitcase
ALUMINUM - special surface

TRUCK - gasoline tank / sidewall

COVER - dry cleaning machine

DOOR for electrical cabinet -
reverse flange

DOOR for electrical cabinet
standard corner

BOTTOM PAN for chemical unit
STAINLESS STEEL

ACF Cornerformer Cost & Time Savings

THE REAL COST SAVINGS
THE MAJOR BENEFITS OF A PROVEN SYSTEM

IMPROVED QUALITY OF CORNERS

• excellent and consistent quality

TIME SAVINGS

• simplified panel/door production process
• reduction of manipulation and intermediate storage

COST SAVINGS

• no welding, no hand finishing work
• only 1 operator required
• elimination of abrasives and welding consumables
• new UNIVERSAL-TOOLING allows individual panel/door fabrication (MACHINE-TYPE: Multiflex)
• custom made FIX-TOOLINGS design allows high volume fabrication (MACHINE-TYPE: Variform)
• space requirement for machine approx. 1 m²

IMPROVED WORKING CONDITIONS

• very low level of noise, no dirt creation

FLEXIBLE AND AUTOMATIC CORNERFORMING GIVES EXTENSIVE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES FOR PANEL/DOOR FABRICATION IN:

1. IMPROVED QUALITY OF CORNERS
2. SIMPLIFICATION OF FABRICATION PROCESS
3. ADDITIONAL BENEFITS ARE
   • MILD STEEL - zinc coating: AFTER CORNERFORMING
     => no manual zinc coating in the corner area is necessary
   • MILD STEEL - for enamel coating: AFTER CORNERFORMING
     => the coldformed corner is constant and resistant against high temperature (higher than 960oC)
   • STAINLESS STEEL: AFTER CORNERFORMING => no change of color on the material surface and therefore no pickling of the corner is necessary

THE TIME SAVINGS
IT'S WORTH MAKING THE COMPARISON

A panel/door with all 4 corners formed, ist compared with a welded and handfinished panel:

PROCESSRATE COMPARISON

1. CORNERFORMER-Multiflex, MF25/50/100 appr. 52 sec./Door
2. CORNERFORMER-Variform, appr. 40 sec./Door
3. Conventional Method (welding, grinding, finishing) - Mild Steel, appr. 12 min./Door
4. Conventional Method (welding, grinding, finishing) - Aluminium, appr. 18 min./Door
5. Conventional Method (welding, grinding, finishing) - Stainless Steel, appr. 24 min./Door

Please note: Above times stated INCLUDE handling time (BOTTOM-BOTTOM TIME).
Additional time savings through optimization of fabrication are not considered.