FCF®
FLEXIBLE COLD FORMING

Quality “Made in Germany” – benefits for the world. 

SEUTHE Flexible Cold Forming (FCF) tube welding line with patented direct forming technology for high-speed production of square and rectangular tubes, enabling fast dimension changes, reduced material thickening at corners, and up to 10% strip material savings through advanced cage forming.
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Anyone who would like to economically produce shaped tubes (square/rectangular) very fast and very flexible in the dimension change will find out that SEUTHE tube welding lines with a patented forming method are technologically far ahead. The unique direct forming process eliminates material thickening in corner radii, maximizing strip material utilization. Consequently up to 10 % material can be saved by using the cage forming FCF technology. As a next step of development “retrofitting”, barcode readers as well as the use of state-of-the-art communication protocols are planned.
 
FEATURES

ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION OF SMALLEST QUANTITIES

SAVE MATERIAL
UP TO 10 %

Direct forming makes ideal use of strip material. With a forming focus exclusively on the corner areas thickening of the strip material is avoided.

REDUCE INVENTORY
UP TO 50 %

Automated roll adjustment brings very high flexibility. Small batches can also be produced profitably, efficiently and just in time.

BOOST PRODUCTION
UP TO 80 %

One set of universal tool rolls is used over the entire range of the mill. This results in extremely short set-up times since there is no need to exchange the rolls. Rolls are automatically positioned for the new dimensions using a recipe system.

SEUTHE Flexible Cold Forming (FCF) tube welding line with patented direct forming technology for high-speed production of square and rectangular tubes, enabling fast dimension changes, reduced material thickening at corners, and up to 10% strip material savings through advanced cage forming.
SEUTHE Flexible Cold Forming (FCF) tube welding line with patented direct forming technology for high-speed production of square and rectangular tubes, enabling fast dimension changes, reduced material thickening at corners, and up to 10% strip material savings through advanced cage forming.
Close-up of a metal forming machine's intricate mechanism. Precise tooling is visible.
SEUTHE Flexible Cold Forming (FCF) tube welding line with patented direct forming technology for high-speed production of square and rectangular tubes, enabling fast dimension changes, reduced material thickening at corners, and up to 10% strip material savings through advanced cage forming.
SEUTHE Flexible Cold Forming (FCF) tube welding line with patented direct forming technology for high-speed production of square and rectangular tubes, enabling fast dimension changes, reduced material thickening at corners, and up to 10% strip material savings through advanced cage forming.
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