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Cutting, Sawing & P rofiling T echnology
total up to 60 minutes have been reduced
to as little as 60 seconds.
New-Form Tools offers standard
and custom rotary knives for cutting
applications. CNC centres prepare edges
on knives that can be machined according
to unique specifications. The company also
offers affordable metal cutting solutions
to the rollform industry. Manufactured
from highly dependable FN99 steel, the
company’s rollform tooling resists chipping
and cracking, resulting in less downtime.
Produced with NFT100 high grade steel,
the company offers highly durable slitter
knives. Coil processors can achieve
significant savings with chip resistant
knives, providing increased production and
reduced downtime.
New-Form Tools Ltd – Canada
Fax: +1 519 272 1996
Email:
Website:
size and wall thicknesses, with long life
and high quality cuts of high strength steel
tubing.
Examples from customers using New-
Form shear blades reveal a rate of 5,000-
11,000 cuts in difficult high strength
tubing 0.179" wall by 6½" diameter.
Historically, these tube cutting numbers
were unpredictable with numbers of 100-
800 cuts.
These results have been verified at one
customer in mid-USA, saving in excess of
US$1 million dollars on its tube mill from
the actual scrap steel tube produced. New-
Form claim that the cost of new blades and
sharpening has been reduced by more than
400 per cent.
Total cost reductions in one tube mill line
approached $1.4 million dollars per annum.
In addition, the customer has drastically
improved its efficiencies so that
ample run time is available to run
additional products.
In addition to these cost saving
advances, New-Form Tools has
developed patented quick change systems
that dramatically reduce downtime in tube
shearing. Tool package changes that would
New-Form Tools, Canada, is a provider of
metal cutting solutions to the tube, pipe,
and rollform industries. The company has
developed speciality blades and cutting
systems for high tensile and high strength
materials including stainless steels and
exotic metal tubing. The titanium coated
speciality shear blades and jaws are impact
resistant and wear resistant.
The company aims to remove the
unpredictability in blade life, and provide
solutions for those that have struggled with
sawing and shearing issues. New-Form
offer consistent saw quality cuts in varying
cut length (in inches, fractions, or metric)
and pushes ‘start’, and the automatic stop
moves to position.
Scotchman president, Mr Jerry Kroetch,
commented, “The advanced feed system
will cut production time in half, virtually
eliminating setup time. Now, operators no
longer need to use a tape measure or set
and adjust manual stops.”
The advanced feed system can be used
as a programmable stop system or a fully
automatic programmable push feed system
with the optional material clamp.
Scrap can be eliminated by using the
optional optimising software. Upon entering
the clear stock length of a piece of material
into the controller, the system calculates
how to optimise the material for the highest
yield.
Scotchman Industries, Inc – USA
Fax: +1 800 843 5545
Email:
Website:
Scotchman Industries, USA, is the
manufacturer of an advanced feed system
that is designed to turn a semi-automatic
machine into a fully automatic production
machine. This system acts to increase
productivity, decrease setup time, reduce
operator error and eliminate waste.
Operators can either manually enter
dimensions into the controller or pull a cut
list directly from the controller. Powered
by TigerStop, the programmable controller
can store up to 99 programs. Cut list
information can also be downloaded
directly from a PC, speeding up production
and reducing the
chance of operator
error.
Once the material is
secured in the indexing
clamp and the machine
started, the Scotchman
advanced feed system
automatically moves
the material into
position and clamps
it, then cycles the
machine.
To perform one-off cuts,
the operator simply
keys in the desired
 The Scotchman advanced feed system
Speciality metal cutting blades and systems
 New-Form shear blades offer a rate of 5,000-
11,000 cuts in difficult high strength tubing
 Rotary disc cutters (above left) and slitter knives
(above right) from New-Form Tools
Advanced feed system for fully automatic cutting