Confederation of British Metalforming

A Trade Association

Adrian Nicklin

CBM Specialist

Sheet & Cold Rolled

24-10-12

Our Head Office is;

The National Metal Forming Centre, West Bromwich.

The Property is owned by the CBM

Office space and conference facilities

for internal or external hire.

CBM is THE leading trade association

for UK manufacturers of

cold rolled

forgings

sheet metal/

pressings

fasteners

Year of Current Formation 1999

CBM

Membership

Sheet Metal Sector Members 64

Cold Rolled Sector Members 6

Forging Sector Members 42

Fastener Sector Members 19

Associate Members 50 Suppliers, Institutes, Commercial & Overseas

•Total turnover within CBM member companies: £3billion

• 40 000 employed in CBM member companies

• CBM is the leading trade association for UK manufacturers of fasteners, forgings,

pressings & cold rolled section.

• CBM members provide high quality components to key industry sectors.

• Virtually every manufacturing sector buys components from a CBM member company.

• In addition to CBM’s manufacturing companies, its associate members include

suppliers of materials, equipment, consumables and services.

• Universities & Institute members (both in the UK and overseas) including research

bodies give a true reflection of CBM’s support of a totally integrated metal forming

community.

• The CBM objective is to promote our members to their full potential.

CBM Embracing UK metalforming

CBM Membership Benefits

Membership of the CBM includes a wide and growing range of free and

discounted services, designed to save money and help their business operate

more efficiently.

•Climate Change Levy savings. Current scheme closed to new members. New scheme currently being

designed by Department of Energy

•Carbon Reduction Commitment. CBM staff support the members by processing applications and

assist with bi-annual performance reporting

•Free Employment Law helpline

•Technical Support to member companies from the CBM Sector Specialists

•Free publications. Weekly newsletter and Quarterly Metal Matters magazine

•Free Health & Safety helpline

•Monthly Market Report covering all sectors relating to metal products

•Regular Health, Safety and Environmental working group meetings

•Discounted Insurance premiums through Towergate Insurance

•Briefings and Seminars from internal and external specialists

•Metalforming Sector meetings and events for members companies 3 timers per year

CBM Sheet Metal Sector

Company Sector General Product

AGA Consumer Products Domestic App Cookers

Ash & Lacy Perforators Various Sheet Metal Perforations

Berck Ltd Various General Presswork

Bird Stevens & Co Ltd Holloware General presswork & products

Carlton Laser Services Ltd Various Tube & closure assemblies

Cirteq Ltd Unique product Specialist Circlips

Cooper B-Line Closures Electrical & IT Closures

Cooper Crouse-Hinds (UK) Ltd Closures Electrical & IT Closures

Cooper Lighting and Safety Electrical Lighting modules

Corus Automotive Automotive Steel coil & blanks

Covpress Holdings Automotive / Various BIW Stampings & Assemblies

DPE Automotive Ltd Automotive / Various BIW Stampings & Assemblies

DRB Engineering Ltd Automotive / Various Small Stampings & Assemblies

Fellows Catering / Various Kitchen & catering equipment

Ford Component Manufacturing Ltd Various General Presswork

Fowlers of Bristol (Engineers) Ltd Various General Presswork

G W Waite Ltd Various General Presswork

Genex UK Ltd Automotive / Various Stampings & assembly

Glen Dimplex Home Appliances Domestic App Specialist Cookers

Grorud Group Ltd Various General Presswork

Grove Metal Sections Ltd Various Cold Rolled Section Profiles

Guala Closures UK Closures Specialist Bottle caps

H V Wooding Ltd Electrical Bimetal Strips/ Electr connectors

Hadley Industries Plc Construction CR Construction Products

Havelock Europa Plc Office Furniture Specialist Shop & workplace fitters

Kiyokuni Europe Ltd Automotive/Various General Presswork

Laser Process Ltd Various Lasered Blanks

Leonardt Ltd Various Knibs, clips, wireforms.

Metsec Plc Construction CR Construction Products

Miking Ltd Various Steel coil & blanks

Milton Keynes Pressings Ltd Automotive / Varoius BIW Stampings & Assemblies

Mitchell Grieves Various Fine Blanking & general presswork

Northern Automotive Systems Ltd Automotive/Various Specialist name plates & décor trim

Pressed Metal Products Ltd Various Stampings & assembly

Rical Group Various Wire & Strip form

Rittal-CSM Ltd Electrical Special enclosures & racks

Sankey Laminations Ltd Electrical / Various Electrical steel laminations

Stewart Fraser Ltd Construction Cold Rolled Section Profiles

Steel Service Centre Ltd Various Sheet metal products

Taurus Engineering Various Sheet metal products

The Regent Engineering Co Ltd Various Stampings & assembly

Whittan Storage Storage Systems Specialist Racking systems CRS

William King Ltd Steel Stock Holder Slitting & blanking

William Mitchell Various Fine Blanking & general presswork

Wrekin Sheetmetal Ltd Various Window Guards

X-met Fabrication & Finishing Ltd Construction Sheet metal products

Sheet Metal Sector

Including Cold Rolled Profiles

Not including

Automotive and Aerospace

Metal Components Cutting

and

Forming Processes

Low Volume

What processes are used for creating sheet

metal products

CBM members do these processes

Low Volume

For 2D components.

• Punch press / turret press high speed punching op.

• Alternative Laser cutting (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation)

Can be programmed to cut any shape. No tools needed.

• Or

• Water Jet Cutting

A water jet cutter, is a tool capable of slicing into metal using a jet of water at high

velocity and pressure, or a mixture of water and an abrasive substance. There is no heat

affected zone.

• Press brake forming V raise folding ops.

• Both ops use standard or low cost tooling.

• Max length of components in UK 5 metres long.

• Up to 5mm thick. 1 company in UK does 10mm

LATEST DEVELOPMENT

• Bystronic are laser cutting 1mm thick cr4 mild steel at 22m/min on a 6kw Co2 laser

and at 45m/min on a 3kw fibre laser.

Press Brake and Folding Process

press brake, also known as a brake press, is a machine

tool for bending sheet and plate material, most

commonly sheet metal. It forms predetermined bends by

clamping the workpiece between a matching punch and

die.

CBM have members who do this process.

Metal Spinning Process CBM are about to sign a Metal Spinner

Examples of Metal forming in Construction

The Birmingham Selfridges store, designed by

architects Future Systems, is covered in 15,000

spun aluminium discs. Since it opened in 2003, the

Birmingham store has been named every year by

industry magazine Retail Week as one of the 100

stores to visit in the world.

The £193m Library of Birmingham towers over

Centenary Square in the heart of the city with capacity

to accommodate more than three million visitors a year,

The design for the Library's exterior echoes the

gasometers, tunnels, canals and viaducts which fuelled

Birmingham's industrial growth. Featuring a series of

interweaving circles of two different sizes, the

overlapping aluminium rings will extend across the

building from the first to the eighth floor. Each imposing

piece will be formed of 5.4m diameter black rings, with

silver circles of 1.8m diameter attached.

Birmingham's new Library Facade

Wire, profile forming, ring rolling,

bending and welded assembly.

France’s most exiting new shopping complex

When the city of Angers in southwest France was looking to build a

major new shopping complex on its outskirts, the site chosen was

ideal for a major contemporary aesthetic vision being stand-alone

and highly visible from all directions.

Designed by architects Antonio Virga in Paris with all the roof &

Façade Panels made CBM Member Whiston Industries.

350 sq metres were of complex double curvature panels were

manufactured, shipped and fitted in less than 8 weeks.

• Completed units of up to 4x 1.5 metres were manufactured in the

UK and following powder coating shipped directly to site for final assembly.

• Units were tested for accuracy of manufacture (+/- 2mm) prior to leaving the UK.

• Despite being the final pieces fitted in a 1.8km façade, they all

fitted first time with no rework or replacements necessary.

Construction using perforated sheet Façade

Manufacturers can supply a range of

perforated and expanded patterns with

the facilities and expertise to create

bespoke solutions and punch virtually

any shape or material.

Expanded metal

Punched

The Brownhills Colossus A 12m high stainless steel fabricated figure.

Certainly an example of one of the largest

figurative sculptures in the United Kingdom The sculpture was designed by John McKenna

drawing upon extensive consultation with the local

community of Brownhills. This colossal sculpture was made entirely by John

McKenna and his assistants at his studio in

Turnberry, Scotland. John does not believe in sub contracting out artwork made in his name.

The Angel Of The North Due to its exposed location, the sculpture was built

to withstand winds of over 100 mph (160 km/h).

Thus, 600 tonnes of concrete were used to create foundations which anchor the sculpture to rock 70

feet (21 m) below. The sculpture was built at

Hartlepool Steel Fabrications Ltd using weather resistant steel. It was made in three parts—with the

body weighing 100 tonnes and two wings weighing

50 tonnes each.

Examples of Sculptures made from metal fabrications.

Laser Cutters, Press brakes and Fabricator CBM

members Are getting more & more involved.

Cold Rolled Section Automotive & Construction

Members; Automotive; Aisin, Gestamp,

Construction; Metsec, Hadley’s, Stewart Fraser, Grove

•ROLL FORMING is a continuous metal forming process that transforms

coil, sheet or strips into shapes with a consistent cross section. The stock

is fed through successive pairs of rolls, which progressively shape the

material to obtain the desired profile. The metal thickness is not changed

except for slight thinning at the bend radius.

•BENEFITS

•Finished components in one operation.

•Consistent shapes and uniform cross sections straight or curved

•Pre punching coil for holes can be incorporated.

•Can create locking bead and seal retaining features.

•Low Cost tooling for certain profiles.

50 pass rolling mill

Cold rolled section profiles used in Construction

Creating Structural Performance.

Picture almost any iconic building - the Gherkin in London, the Burj

al Arab tower in Dubai, and the Shard and it will be a steel

structure. But it's not only engineers building commercial buildings

that utilise the material. Increasingly, steel is used in the

construction of residential homes more so overseas than UK.

High Volume Production Parts

related mostly to the

Automotive Industry.

CBM Members Presswork & Cold

Rolled For the Automotive Sector.

• Stadco A class Panels in alum body in white structures

• Gestamp (TK) structures assemblies door sashes & bumpers

• Sertec medium presswork & assemblies in alum and steel

• Aisin door sashes

• Covpress medium presswork & assemblies in steel

• Walsall Pressings small to medium presswork & assemblies in steel

• UYT / UYS Exhaust systems and pressed assemblies

• Takoa medium presswork & assemblies in steel

• Futaba medium presswork & assemblies in steel

• Northern Automotive pressed internal trim parts

CBM Sheet Metal Members

Aerospace Sector

• SPS Aerostructures Ltd Nottingham

• Doncasters Bramah Ltd Sheffield

• Fowlers of Bristol Ltd

The

Stamping Process

Progression

or

Transfer

Manual

Multi stage operation using coil or blanks

automatically fed. Used for high volume

production.

Single stage operation by manual

movement using blanks or strip.

A POWER PRESS

creates mechanical or

hydraulic energy to

enable a tonnage force

to be applied through a

tool to make a product.

Forming Simulation

Stretch Forming Process CBM Member Companies

• Gestamp UK(TK)

• Aisin

• Tool & Machine Makers

• Bauromat Total Metal Products

Using Hydraulic power

source and proportion

cylinders controlled by

programmable CNC

controls.

Automotive products;

Door channels

Seal retainers

Bumpers beams

Door Sashes

Bright trim

Stretch Forming Machine

Creating 2d and 3d shape using cold rolled section

Rolls Tools & Equipment Made By British Company

Total Metal Products in the UK and supplied to USA.

Stretch Formed Caskets in

Stainless Steel.

CBM Developments

Activities for 2012 and beyond

• Develop the activities at the CBM Centre of Excellence

• Appoint a Centre of Excellence Manager to head up the

technological activities

• Trade Association Co-operation– Lead Role

• Investigate opportunities for closer working with

EUCOSPA group members

• Address the industry skills and training gap

What Can The CBM Do to help the ASFC ?

Through our Membership and Specialist is a high level of Metal Forming Knowledge.

We Can help you with;

• Supplier and Partnership selection through our membership

• Product design Feasibility for manufacture.

• Manufacturing process feasibility

• Budget Costs

• VA VE

• Project Management.

Thank You For Listening