ROUNDO Delivers World’s Largest Angle Bending Roll

ROUNDO, recognized around the world as the leading manufacturer of plate and angle bending rolls, has announced the completion and successful installation of the largest angle bending roll ever built, the Model R-16S.

The first unit was purchased by a large rolling company in England, who has been using the machine to roll massive sections for the stadiums and other venues for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

The Model R-16S has the capacity to roll up to 44” beams both the easy way (Y-Y axis) and the hard way (X-X axis). During the machine test and run-off performed for the customer at the ROUNDO complex in Sweden, the Model R-16S rolled an HEB 1000 beam, equivalent to a W40” x 211 pound beam, to a radius under 100’ with virtually no distortion. In fact, the new owner of the machine told ROUNDO that there was no need to continue rolling the beam to a tighter radius, since no one would ask for such a large beam to be rolled any smaller, and since the machine itself had actually exceeded the promised rolling capacity.

The ROUNDO Model R-16S is equipped with ROUNDO’s Windows-based CNC control which controls the positioning of the main bending rolls, the rotational feeding of the machine, and the left and right side guide rolls, each with 3 axes of movement. In addition, the CNC controls movement and pressure of the hydraulic beam-on-edge attachment, used to pull the back flange of the beams being rolled to keep the beam in tension, preventing the collapse of the web and allowing the beam to be rolled to a smaller radius then would otherwise be possible. The ROUNDO CNC software is written in-house by bending roll people for bending roll people, making it user friendly for the operator on the shop floor, yet so powerful that engineers can link the machine with their CAD systems and download programs directly to the machine.

ROUNDO bending rolls from Sweden are distributed by Trilogy Machinery, Inc., their exclusive North American agent. Trilogy personnel have over 100 years of experience working with Roundo bending rolls, and are responsible for supporting and servicing over 4,000 Roundo rolls currently in use throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. The web site for ROUNDO is www.roundo.com and the Trilogy web site is www.trilogymachinery.com.