Dahlstrom Solutions for the Heavy Truck and Trailer Manufacturing Industry
Dahsltrom Solutions for Heavy Truck and Trailer Manufacturers
Dahlstrom’s roll forming solutions have been tied to the automotive industry since the first Model T automobile came off the assembly line. Dahlstrom has been designing and building roll forming solutions to manufacture automotive components for structural, non-structural, and trim components for use in cars, trucks, related passenger vehicles, and heavy trucks and trailers. Dahlstrom has designed and built metal forming and fabrication solutions to meet the unique needs and requirements for vehicles including roll forming sills, rockers, reinforcements, cross members, roof bows, and bumpers. In addition to structural, non-structural, and trim components, Dahlstrom can design a roll forming system to accommodate many other commonly roll formed parts including pillars, window channel guides, running boards, corrugated truck beds, and seat tracks.
Automotive manufactures count on Dahlstrom to provide metal forming and fabrication solutions for other vital roll formed components including posts, floor angles, scuff plates, rub rails, and roof bows which make up the shell of a box trucks and trailers. With increased fuel efficiency requirements, these components are more frequently manufactured from light gauge, high strength materials to save weight. In addition to the structural components, logistics features such as e-tracks and shelving are also roll formed. Dahlstrom can also design and build roll forming systems for much larger vehicles including school buses for roll formed components. School bus roll forming solutions typically require programmable features including in-line notching, post-cutting to length for flexibility of finished part lengths, hole patterns, and production quantities in order to meet manufacturing needs. Dahlstrom’s team of experienced engineers can also design and build metal forming and fabricating systems for over-the-road and rail transportation vehicles when roll forming is required.
Count on Dahlstrom to create specialized roll forming solutions for your automotive business needs including systems for heavy gauge steel frames roll forming for trucks and railcars. Roll forming machines and tooling are integrated with heavy gauge frame fabrication systems with coil or strip feeding to fit the unique needs of the heavy truck and trailer industry. Dahlstrom’s experienced engineers have the knowledge and understanding to design and build a roll forming system all transportation needs from heavy gauge frames for semi-trucks and mass transit vehicles to the safety equipment including guard rails, sign posts, and even barrier system components. Our application engineering team can help select the appropriate Dahlstrom machinery solution for your heavy truck and trailer application, considering the materials, size, and production needs to fit your business.
Dahlstrom Solutions
Roll Forming
For over 70 years, Dahlstrom has been designing, manufacturing, and integrating tooling and machinery for metal forming and fabrication solutions including custom roll forming systems. Dahlstrom offers a wide breadth of experience and technical know-how including a range of sheet and coil roll forming equipment that provide manufacturers with robust, economical solutions for high-production and flexible environments. Learn more
Flexible Fabrication Solutions
Dahlstrom designs and manufactures a wide range of metal forming and fabrication solutions for both sheet and coil flexible fabrication. We integrate multiple fabricating processes — notching, bending, roll forming, spot welding, and multiple transfer operations — with wing benders, post notching punch systems, walking beam systems, transfer conveyors, and more to create customized flexible fabrication solutions that allow you to easily handle product variations while simultaneously reducing your labor costs. Learn more
Integrated Systems From Formtek
As a part of the Formtek family of metal forming and fabricating solutions, Dahlstrom systems can be seamlessly integrated with B&K, Hill Engineering, Lockformer Custom Machinery, Tishken, Winpro, and Yoder solutions to deliver optimal results for your operations.
Roll Forming and Flexible Fabrication Systems
Formtek can integrate multiple fabricating processes and systems from B&K, Dahlstrom, Hill Engineering, Lockformer Custom Machinery, Tishken, Winpro, and Yoder to streamline and reduce the labor in your manufacturing operations. Whether it is flexible fabricating or roll formed products, Formtek can engineer and build a complete manufacturing system, from coil or sheet handling through finished product, for your application.
Consolidate Notching and Fastening Operations
The systems can be complex, involving multiple notching, bending and/or roll forming machines with welding, such as the production of office furniture wall partitions. Such systems may eliminate a dozen or more manual operations. Digital controls and batch production capabilities can allow the process to vary position and quantities of engineered features without setup time.
Eliminate Multiple Press Brake Operations
These integrated roll forming and flexible fabrication systems from Formtek can be as simple as manufacturing roof panels or shelves by hand feeding metal sheets into the roll former.
Engineered To Order
Each Formtek System is designed and manufactured to optimize the processing of your products.
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