Norck: Precision Edge Bending for Your Sheet Metal Needs

Norck delivers expertly formed sheet metal components using precision edge bending techniques. We specialize in aerospace, defense, robotics, industrial, automotive, electronics, energy, hardware, and consumer product applications where accurate bends, complex profiles, and custom sheet metal solutions are required.

Capabilities for Edge Bending Excellence:

• Advanced Press Brakes with Wipe Dies: Ensuring precise bends with minimal distortion, accommodating various sheet metal gauges and materials across diverse industries.
• Wide Range of Bend Angles & Radii: Achieving sharp bends, complex curves, and intricate forms, tailored to your specifications within demanding sectors.
• Materials Expertise: Bending diverse steels, aluminum, alloys, and other sheet metals, with guidance on material selection for formability, strength, and environmental requirements.
• Secondary Operations: Welding, finishing, and assembly services for complete sheet metal solutions, streamlining your project across industries.

Norck's Engineering Edge: It's More Than Just a Bend

• Design for Manufacturability (DFM): Early collaboration to optimize your designs for efficient edge bending, minimizing iterations and material waste.
• Process Simulation (FEA): Analyzing complex bends for potential springback, predicting formability limits, and ensuring accurate outcomes in critical sectors like aerospace and defense.
• In-Process Control & Inspection: Rigorous dimensional checks and process monitoring to guarantee consistent bends and part quality, meeting the high standards of various industries.

Why Choose Norck for Edge Bending?

• Complex Geometries & Tight Tolerances: We confidently tackle challenging forms, bends with minimal radii, and high-precision sheet metal components for a wide range of applications
• Custom Solutions for Demanding Industries: Meeting the rigorous standards of aerospace, automotive, electronics, and other critical sectors with reliable results.
• Cost-Effective & Efficient: Our expertise in DFM, tooling optimization, and process control ensures competitive pricing, even for specialized needs.
• Your Sheet Metal Forming Partner: We guide you from design through delivery, ensuring your edge bending project's success across diverse sectors.

Sheet metal edge bending, also known as flange forming, is a process that involves applying force to an edge of a metal sheet to cause it to bend along a straight axis. It involves using a punch and die tool designed to create a bend along the edge of a sheet metal part.

Edge bending is mainly used in sheet metal fabrication to create flanges along an edge of sheet metal parts Flanges can be used for attaching other components, adding strength to a part, or for aesthetic or functional reasons.

Sheet metal components are used in:

  •   Construction: Bending components for construction projects such as roofing and siding
  •   Automotive: Bending sheet metal for use in body parts such as doors, hoods, and fenders
  •  Aerospace: Bending sheet metal for use in the manufacturing of fuselage, doors, and fenders
  •  Advertising: Bending sheet metal for signage and advertising, including signs and billboards
  •   Food processing: Bending sheet metal for beverages, kitchen equipment
  •   Transportation: Bending sheet metal parts for cars, trains, buses, and aircraft
  •   Art: Bending sheet metal for use in building cladding

Edge bending consists of transforming an edge of sheet metal into an angle. It is fixed between two die parts, and the free edge is punched to form
the desired shape.

Loading the sheet metal: The sheet metal is placed into the press brake machine, ensuring that the edge that needs to be bent is appropriately aligned with the punch and die tool. The alignment is crucial to ensure the accuracy and precision of the bend. The sheet metal is secured using clamps or other holding devices to prevent movement or shifting during bending.

Holding the sheet metal in place: The upper die is lowered to clamp the metal sheet securely between the two dies, holding it in place while the punch applies force to the sheet. The clamping force created by the upper die helps to keep the metal sheet stable during the bending process, ensuring that the bend is formed consistently and accurately

Edge bending the workpiece: The punch is lowered towards the metal sheet using a press brake machine. Which applies a force to the sheet metal. As the punch presses into the sheet metal, the force causes the sheet metal to deform and take on the shape of the punch, creating a bend at the desired angle.

Unloading: Once the bending process is completed, the workpiece is removed from the die of the press brake machine. After the inspection, the workpiece can be moved to the next step in the manufacturing process, such as welding, finishing, or assembly.

Norck is a technology-powered manufacturing leader specializing in CNC machining, 3D printing, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding. Our intelligent, data-driven approach ensures exceptional quality, optimized costs, and seamless supply chain management for companies worldwide.

Key Services:

• Precision CNC Machining: High-quality custom parts and components.
• Advanced 3D Printing: Rapid prototyping and complex production parts.
• Sheet Metal Fabrication: Custom fabrication solutions across materials.
• Injection Molding: Scalable production for plastic parts.

Why Choose Norck?

• AI-Powered Manufacturing: Data and AI optimize our processes for superior quality, minimized costs, and supply chain visibility
• Vast Production Capacity: Our extensive partner network in Europe and the US guarantees both low and high-volume production.
• End-to-End Expertise: Our team of engineers, data scientists, and product developers ensure design for manufacturability and unparalleled service
• Single-Source Solution: Norck streamlines your supply chain, reduces overhead, enhances purchasing power, and delivers just-in-time results.

Experience the Norck difference. Get a quote fast for your manufacturing needs today!