SCHRÖDER FASTI FOLDING TECHNOLOGY

Benefits of Folding

	The FASTI 216 Series Hydraulic Folders: The FASTI 216 is the undisputed heavyweight in the metal folding industry. With over 300 tons of clamping force, and fourteen models from which to choose, it can form an incredible range of metal thickness and length. And, the ergonomic advantages of folding specifically lend themselves to huge, thick, and unwieldy plate applications. What’s more, with a multitude of special options to ease the pain of forming plate even further, the 216 series is designed like no other metal fabricating machine out there.
	The FASTI 225 Series Hydraulic Folders: If you are an OEM or job shop with requirements demanding thin plate applications, meet the brother of the massive FASTI 216, the FASTI 225 thin plate folding system. Offering eight models with the same array of outstanding features, the FASTI 225 thin plate hydraulic folding system is the undisputed middleweight in the metal folding industry.
	The SCHRÖDER IntelliBend UP/DOWN Folder: “Skip The Flip” with IntelliBend Bi-Directional folding system, the most intelligent, affordable, and flexible folding system ever created for the production of complex, precision parts in quantities of one to one thousand or more.  It’s the Schröder IntelliBend, and it easily raises the I.Q. of your business, allowing you to out think, out produce and out wit your competition.  Take a closer look, and discover real intelligence in UP-DOWN folding.
	The SCHRÖDER Latitude Series: If the SCHRÖDER SPB is the finest precision thin gauge folder on the market, taking the it to the 14th power gives you: LATITUDE! Able to offer fourteen machine lengths and thicknesses, no matter what you are bending, there is a LATITUDE system for you! And that includes anyone who bends sheet metal to plate, and needs to switch from one to another, just like that!
	The SCHRÖDER Servo Power Bend (SPB) Series: Consider a folding system so highly evolved, so flexible, so fast and so productive, it is literally the quickest, most powerful, world-class engineered forming machine in the production of the most complex, sophisticated, precision-based parts on earth. It is offered in two models.

ROTATIONAL CLAMPING BEAM

How much would it be worth to you to have two separate sets of universal tooling available to you, with instantaneous rollover, 24/7?  That’s a whopping 20 feet of precision tooling available in sharp nose, or radii, with the option of two different heights for different returns, at your fingertips.It’s the Rotational Clamping Beam, just another in a long line of LATITUDE’s secret weapons, that becomes your secret to incredible productivity gains, enormous expansion in your part geometry capabilities, and a value add that actually takes profit dollars to the finish line.This world-class advantage in machine flexibility and virtual elimination of set up time, would position your forming department as one of the most productive in the world!

The SCHRÖDER-LATITUDE is the “dream machine times fourteen.” You can look, but you won’t find another folding system lineup like the LATITUDE.

RUGGED GAUGING SYSTEMS

Gauging is one of the key elements contributing to quality output, especially in heavy plate applications. Weak, flimsy gauging brings a machine to its knees. Schröder-Fasti has designed the finest, most rugged gauging in the industry, with twin ball-screw drives, steel or nylon ball transfers, solid gauging rails, pop-up stops, and many other options that guarantee consistent, accurate parts.Four standard shapes are available, with depths starting at 1000 mm (39”) and options up to 6 m (19’). We even provide feed systems, which automatically feed the material through the forming operation.

And if you want something you don’t see here, let us know. With our ability to custom-design machines for application specific jobs, we can provide almost any gauge, to fit almost any application.

BENEFITS OF FOLDING

Take a moment to analyze the advantages folding offers:

• Faster setup: More time making more parts, lower costs, and higher profits.
• More precise dimensional part accuracy: Folders gauge the part, not the flange.
• Outstanding angular part accuracy: First part, good part. Period.
• Superior ergonomics: Backgauge holds part, the operator does not. Less fatigue, more parts.
• No whip up: What do you get when you put a 6" bend on a 6' blank? You get 5'-6" of metal swinging through the air. Not on a folder.
• Mar-free bending: The material does not slide against the tool during the forming process. Perfect for finished or pre-painted materials.
• Folding is a gentle process: no tool wear.
• Single man operation: The machine supports the part so only one operator is needed.
• Far less operator skill: Folding is incredibly simple when compared to press brake complexities. Easier, better parts, more productivity.
• Secondary operations smoothed out: Better part accuracies, better fit up, less welding, less grinding, easier assembly, etc.
• Safety: The operator does not hold the part during the forming process. Whip up is gone, and part is fully supported for enhanced ergonomics.
• First part, good part: Once programmed, part repeatability is guaranteed.
• 'Skip the Flip' and eliminate ever having to flip a sheet: Our Intellibend and Latitude are all available as bi-directional.

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