At the EuroBLECH exhibition in Germany towards the end of last year, Belgium-based LVD opted to highlight productivity solutions for smart manufacturing on its stand, where new products included a high-tonnage Easy-Form press brake, an Easy-Cell robotic bending cell and a fully-automatic panel bender.

The Easy-Form 9 400/40 press brake was the largest high-tonnage press brake LVD has ever exhibited at EuroBLECH. The 400-ton machine is floor mounted, meaning no foundation is necessary. It features a six-axis modular back-gauge for high application versatility and a total of 10 axes for the precise bending of large and long parts. A built-in Easy-Form Laser adaptive bending system guarantees repeatable accuracy for quality assurance.

Also at the show, visitors could see how LVD’s Easy-Cell 80/25 combines an Easy-Form 80-ton press brake with a Kuka industrial robot to automate the bending of parts from 100 x 100 mm up to 1600 x 1200 mm – weighing up to 25 kg. The press brake offers a 2500 mm bend length, five-axis back-gauge and 2500 mm crowning table, providing the flexibility to accommodate a wide scope of applications. Easy-Cell features an adaptive bending system which ensures bend angle accuracy from the first part. LVD CADMAN software provides fast, simple offline programming of both press brake and robot.

Elsewhere on the stand, LVD’s Multifold 2111 panel bender demonstrated the fully automatic loading, folding and stacking of workpieces up to a maximum bend length of 2100 mm in thicknesses up to 2 mm cold rolled steel with bend heights up to 110 mm. A flexible and time-efficient alternative to die bending for many applications, Multifold requires only one set of tooling – a universal set of servo-operated up-and-down folding blades – to produce numerous profiles and various types of bends.

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