Automotive Roll Forming

Advanced high strength steel is a type of steel with special specifications that make it possess desirable mechanical properties. These properties allow the high strength low alloy steel to be used in manufacturing different vehicle parts. High strength steel plates or sheets are made using Automotive parts roll forming equipment. A steel roll forming equipment uses pressure applied by a series of steel rolls or roller dies to form or bend high strength steel. Sometimes the steel can be as heavy as 6 gauge. These machines are ideal to produce different roll formed channels like C-channels, U-channels, and hat channels besides being used in the automotive industry.

A roll forming equipment possesses certain standard features like power driven bullet rollers, chain and gear driven rollers, rolling double reel support stand, emergency shut-off switches. Besides, it can also come with accessories like three-reel adapters, coil cradles, bottom rib roller assemblies, and runout stands depending upon the requirements and steel specifications of the automobile manufacturer. In most cases, manufacturers have been found to use a flower pattern to specify the design of the roll forming machine used for fabricating advanced high strength steel for cars, trucks and buses. Some vehicle manufacturers however require higher standards of flatness (for fabricated steel parts) owing to the use of laser cutters and high speed punching centers during the manufacturing process.

Unlike forging, roll forming results into fabricated high strength low alloy steel parts with higher strength-to-weight ratio.