Norck: Precision Metal Shearing for Your Fabrication Needs

Norck delivers expert metal shearing services, empowering manufacturers across industrial, construction, transportation, and other sectors to achieve clean cuts, tight tolerances, and superior sheet metal processing.

Capabilities for Metal Shearing Excellence:

• Powerful Hydraulic & Mechanical Shears: Accommodating a wide range of sheet metal thicknesses and material types with accurate, repeatable cuts.
• Diverse Metal Handling: Shearing steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and other sheet metals based on your application requirements.
• Precision Control: Adjustable blade clearances, backstops, and cutting angles for consistent cut quality and dimensional accuracy across your production.
• Secondary Operations: Integration with bending, forming, welding, and finishing services to provide complete sheet metal fabrication solutions.

Norck's Engineering Edge: It's About More Than Just Cutting

• Design for Manufacturability (DFM): Consulting on part design adjustments to optimize them for shearing (e.g., minimizing tight corners).
• Material Expertise: Guidance on selecting the optimal sheet metal alloy and temper for your application, considering formability, strength, and cost.
• Process Optimization: Tailoring shearing parameters to minimize edge distortion, burrs, and material stress for clean-cut parts ready for downstream operations.
• Focus on Your Applications: Providing shearing solutions tailored to the needs of your industry, prioritizing quality, efficiency, and tolerance control.

Why Choose Norck for Metal Shearing?

• Clean Cuts & Tight Tolerances: Achieve precise dimensions for seamless assembly, welding, or further sheet metal fabrication processes.
• Efficient & Cost-Effective Processing: Ideal for both high-volume shearing and smaller jobs where accuracy and cut quality are critical.
• Versatile for Diverse Needs: Shearing metals from thin-gauge sheet to thicker plate, supporting a wide range of fabrication applications.
• Streamlined Sheet Metal Solutions: Integrate shearing with downstream processes under one roof to manage your project effectively.
• Your Fabrication Partner: We work with you to optimize your shearing operations, maximizing throughput and minimizing waste.

Sheet metal shearing is a versatile manufacturing process that cuts sheet metal into specific sizes or shapes. It can be used to make straight lines or more complex shapes. Cutting is similar to scissors, where the punch cuts down onto the die to cut through the metal sheet.

Shearing machines can be hand-operated, mechanical, or hydraulic, and they are used to cut different thicknesses of metal sheets. It can be used in several applications, including automotive, aerospace, construction, etc.

The sheet metal shearing process can be used in several industries, such as:

  •   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

Shearing is done using a blade, the cutting tool, and a fixed lower blade upon which the sheet metal is clamped. The upper blade is fixed on a ram powered by a hydraulic or mechanical system. And the lower blade is located on the bed of the shearing machine.

Loading the sheet metal: The process begins by placing the metal sheet on the bed of the shearing machine. The bed usually has guides and clamps to secure the workpiece during cutting. The sheet metal is aligned so that the cutting blade makes contact with the sheet metal at the desired cutting line.

Cutting: Next, the ram moves the upper blade towards the lower blade, cutting through the metal sheet. The distance between the blades is calculated depending on the thickness and material of the workpiece.

Unloading: After the cut is made, the metal is removed from the shearing machine.

Deburring: The resulting sheet metal edge has a slightly burred finish, which deburring or other finishing processes can remove. Some parts might require finishing processes such as laser cutting to deburr the edges of the workpiece, painting, or anodizing to modify its appearance and mechanical properties

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!