Strongsville, Ohio, USA, February 11, 2019 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped four (4) RT-4500 single-sided turkshead straighteners to a major North American HSS tube producer. The turksheads are duplicates of previous supplied units and will be used to improve changeover times of the mill. RT-4500 Single-Sided Turkshead Straighteners [...]
Strongsville, Ohio, USA, February 1, 2019 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped a RT-2000L 2-roll HFI weld squeeze box to a North American tube producer. The weld box is a retrofit to an existing Yoder M-1-1/2 tube mill that is being converted from ERW to HFI welding. The product mix on this mill is perfect for a simple 2-roll solution. RT-2000L HFI Weld Squeeze Box (2-Roll) [...]
Strongsville, Ohio, USA, January 22, 2019 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped a RT-3000S/3500S high-speed HSS tube mill to a major North American tube producer. The mill is capable of making 2-1/2" square x 0.250" wall HSS tube at 400 FPM and lighter gauges up to 600 FPM. The mill is rafted for quick-changeover and includes an automatic universal drive shaft handling system. The reshaping section includes heavy-duty RT-3500S driven and idle side roll stands. A double-sided tu [...]
Strongsville, Ohio, USA, November 11, 2018 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has supplied a retrofit RT-2500S 2-roll HFI weld squeeze box to a major North American mechanical tubing producer. A new design was required to replace an inadequate 2-roll design from another supplier while still utilizing the existing roll tooling. The weld box is sized for up to 4.500" OD x 0.160" wall HSLA tube. It is significantly more robust than the unit it replaced. Operator feedback on the new unit ha [...]
Strongsville, Ohio, USA, July 9, 2018 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has introduced a new proactive machine maintenance service program for tube mill and roll forming equipment owners. The program is designed to provide regularly scheduled service to solve common maintenance problems often found on mill equipment. It establishes an annual service agreement that includes monthly service visits by a qualified service technician at a discounted service rate.Services include:On-site, hands-on trai [...]
Strongsville, Ohio, USA, March 30, 2018 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped an RT-3000 Single-Tool HFI Weld Bead Upset Trimmer with Bead Winder to a North American custom roll form parts producer. The equipment includes a cam actuated quick-lift feature to raise and lower the trimming tool automatically when the mill stops or manually when a coil end joint passes underneath. The use of a cam motion locks the tool in the down position mechanically. It also returns [...]
Strongsville, Ohio, USA, February 16, 2018 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped an RT-4000S single-sided turkshead straightener with 2-axis motorized adjustments to a major North American heavy-wall tube producer. The turkshead is capable of straightening up to 3.500" OD x 0.300" wall (88.9mm OD x 7.6mm wall) tubing. It includes motorized up/down and left/right adjustment so that tube straightness can be controlled from a remote downstream position using a simple joystick device. Lin [...]
Strongsville, Ohio, USA, February 5, 2018 – Rafter Equipment Corporation continues to please customers with the company's robust 3-roll HFI weld squeeze boxes. The unique heavy-duty design has successfully replaced scroll-chuck and other various designs because of its ability to handle both heavier wall thickness and/or high strength, low alloy (HSLA) steels. In this design, all operat [...]
Strongsville, Ohio, USA, December 28, 2017 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped a pair of RT-2500S Driven Reshaping Roll Stands to a major North American stainless steel tube manufacturer. The equipment was the final piece of a series of mill upgrades the customer used reconfigure an old TIG welded mill into a new HFI welded mechanical tube mill. The stands will reshape round tubing formed with a bottom-of-tube constant datum into equivalent squares & rectangles with a constant c [...]
Strongsville, Ohio, USA, November 1, 2017 – Rafter Equipment Corporation announced today it has entered into an exclusive strategic partnership with Camasi Máquinas e Equipamentos to expand its offering of advanced roll forming equipment in North America. This will enable the company to offer end-to-end, turn key solutions to more customers in the growing roll forming market. Both companies offer extensive machine design experience in their respective markets. As [...]