Strongsville, Ohio, USA, December 17, 2019 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped a custom RT-2000S driven reshaping roll stand to a major North American tube producer. The customer approached Rafter to design and build the stand to bring all the various adjustments to the operator's side of the machine for [...]
Strongsville, Ohio, USA, November 1, 2019 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has completed an order for a RT-3000 HFI Weld Squeeze Box (4-Roll), a RT-3000 Heavy-Duty Single-Tool Weld Upset Bead Trimmer and a RT-3000 Double-Sided Turkshead Straightener for major North American custom roll formed profile supplier. The equipment will be used for the production of direct-formed and [...]
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, 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, 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 [...]
Strongsville, Ohio, USA, August 25, 2017 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has completed an order for three (3) RT-3000 and one (1) RT-2500 HFI weld squeeze boxes and one (1) RT-3000 heavy-duty, single-tool weld bead upset trimmer. The equipment will be used for the production of direct-formed HSLA welded profiles for the automotive industry. Rafter was chosen for this project because of the company's strong reputation for provid [...]