What is Metalworking Equipment?
Metalworking equipment refers to the tools and machinery used to shape, form, and manipulate metal for a variety of manufacturing and construction purposes. It includes a wide range of machines and tools that are used to cut, shape, bend, form, and finish metal parts and products.
There are many different types of metalworking equipment, such as:
- Lathes, which are used to shape metal by turning it against a cutting tool
- Milling machines, which use a rotating cutter to remove material from a workpiece
- Drill presses, which use a rotating cutting tool to make holes in metal
- Grinders, which use abrasive wheels to smooth and finish metal surfaces
- Press brakes, which use a punch and die to bend metal into specific shapes
- Shears, which use a cutting blade to trim or cut metal sheets
- Welding equipment, which fuses or join two or more pieces of metal or thermoplastics together
These machines are used in a wide range of industries such as automotive, aerospace, construction, manufacturing and many more.
In addition to machine tools, metalworking equipment also includes a wide range of hand tools, such as saws, chisels, hammers, files, and pliers, as well as measuring and layout tools like micrometers, calipers, and squares.
Some Metalworking Equipment Categories
Bar & Tube Straightening Machines
Bar Feeders/Loaders
Bar Peeling Machines
Beam & Profile Processing Lines
Bending & Forming
Boring Mills
Broaching, Slotting
CNC lathes
Centre Lathes
Coil Handling
Crank Presses
Cut-to-Length Lines
Deburring machines
Deep Hole Drills
Drill Lines
EDM machines
Eccentric Presses
Engraving Machines
Facing & Centering Machines
Forging
Forging Presses
Foundry & casting
Gantry/Planer/Portal Mills
Gear Cutting
Gear Finishing
Gear Generators
Gear Hobbing
Gear Inspection
Gear Shaping
Grinding machines
Heavy Duty Lathes
Honing machines
Laser Cutters
Lathes
Machining Centers
Metal Rolling
Metalworking Measuring Instruments
Milling Machines
Multi-spindle Drilling Machines
Notching Machines
Pillar Drills & Drill Presses
Plasma Cutters
Press Brakes
Presses
Punch Machines
Punch Presses
Radial drills
Riveting Machines
Rotary Tables
Saws
Shearing equipment
Sheet Metal Processing
Slitters & Slitting Lines
Stamping Presses
Threading and Tapping
Transfer Machines
Turret Lathes
Vertical Lathes
Water jet cutters
Welding equipment
Wire machinery