Written by: Donatella Fumagalli – FACCIN Group’s Marketing Manager

Established in the 1960s, the company has grown significantly, becoming a global frontrunner in metal-forming equipment, known for its quality and innovation. The group’s unwavering commitment to excellence are clearly reflected in its three signature brands: Faccin, Roundo, and Boldrini.

By nurturing strategic collaborations, the group leverages each brand’s strengths, maximising their collective potential and resources. This vast expertise, combined with a top-notch research and development team of skilled engineers, has enabled Faccin Group to unveil three innovative products simultaneously at EuroBLECH (stand D07 in Hall 11).

These include the Faccin wireless control system, the pioneering CNC console, and the 4-roll electric-drive plate roll. These advancements not only showcase the group’s dedication to excellence but also underscore their commitment to enhancing metal-forming technology capabilities for their clients.

Wireless Control System: The Future Of Smart CNC Operations

Faccin wireless control system for free movement and maximum control

Faccin’s innovative wireless control system lets operators oversee the entire rolling process and all machine accessories. This remote device links wirelessly to the CNC console, featuring a screen that mirrors the console’s display in real-time.

Light and portable, it comes with a shoulder strap. It works as an extension of the main console, giving operators unmatched freedom of movement and manage rolling process more easily and effectively.

The ability to move freely is crucial, letting the operator stop and access the machine when needed, boosting safety. The wireless control also has four side customisable buttons, plus a big joystick to control pre-axis rotation.

Main benefits:

• Makes machine start-up easier for operators
• All machine commands can be managed by the wireless control system
• New command to set the maximum translation and rotation speed of the rolls
• Allows precise micro-positioning
• Enables proportional movements, thus regulating variable speed with joysticks
• Permits multiple movements contemporaneously (particularly useful when rolling complex and polycentric shapes)
• Simple one-step operation, especially useful for big rolling machines
• Full automation

Cutting-Edge Ergonomic Console With Advanced Siemens PGS-Absolute

Faccin ergonomic console for total automation

The latest ergonomic console, coupled with wireless control system as standard, and Siemens PGS-Absolute software, is poised to set a new standard in the metal forming sector. Carefully selected advanced features transform Faccin CNCs into the quickest, most accurate, and most powerful full CNC systems available today for rolling equipment.

The CNC console, equipped with the newly developed Siemens PGS-Absolute software, offers a range of features aimed at increasing automation, improving machining output, delivering superior finishes, and ensuring part uniformity. Its strengths include straightforward programming, fine-tuning, complex shape creation, and production management tools. It also provides complete automation capabilities, enhanced measurement and correction tools, and advanced diagnostics.

Key features:

• Rotating, high-definition 19″ screen
• Innovative and ergonomic design
• Larger joysticks and fewer buttons for easier operation
• User-friendlyinterface

Innovative Electric-Drive Rolling Technology

Faccin electric-drive 4EDL: Cost-effective, productive plate rolling

The newly engineered and precise electric-drive plate roll with linear guides, Faccin 4EDL series, blends hydraulic movement of the lower rolls with electric rotation of the top roll. This special feature makes the 4EDL the most cost-effective and productive rolling solution.

This advanced plate rolling machine ensures automation, consistency, and easy bending of thin and thin-medium plates. It boasts high-speed rolling up to 10m/min, a notable 35% drop in energy use, a big 50% cut in oil waste, and quiet operation with up to 10-15 db noise reduction.

Carefully designed and made in-house, each part has been chosen to offer top efficiency and ease of use. The new 4EDL can be fitted with tech-based accessories to boost productivity to the max.

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The rapid expansion of offshore wind farms as a sustainable energy source has led to a surge in the demand for advanced machinery capable of producing the components essential for these massive structures. From wind towers to offshore foundations, efficient and precise manufacturing is crucial for the success of offshore wind farms.

Let us delve into the world of machines dedicated to the production of offshore wind farm components, exploring the innovative technologies and processes driving the renewable energy revolution at sea. As the global pursuit of renewable energy intensifies, the need for reliable, high-capacity machinery has become more pressing than ever.

These machines are tasked to manufacture the massive wind towers that play a critical role in supporting the turbine’s key components, optimising wind capture, ensuring structural resilience, and facilitating the transmission of generated power, all of which are essential for the efficient operation. In addition to the sturdy foundations that anchor the towering turbines to the seabed, and an array of components that form the backbone of offshore wind farms.

Rolling Toward Sustainability: The Vital Role Of Plate Rolls In Offshore Foundation Manufacturing

The production of offshore wind foundations, essential for providing support and stability to wind turbines in marine environments, involves several specialised processes tailored to the challenging conditions of offshore installation. The manufacturing process includes design and engineering, the construction of monopiles (suitable for shallow to moderate water depths), jackets (designed for deeper waters), tripods and TPs.

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The APAC economy relies heavily on infrastructure sector for growth and development. This crucial sector encompasses the construction of power plants, bridges, dams, roads, and urban infrastructure, acting as a foundation for other services sectors.

In the coming decade, the Asian Pacific infrastructure market is projected to expand by 7-8% annually, eventually reaching an impressive US$5.36 trillion per year by 2025. This remarkable growth will account for 60% of the world’s total infrastructure market.

The growing demand for construction projects, including airports, stations, bridges, stadiums, and buildings, necessitates an expansion in producing and fabricating metal rolled structural elements such as tubes, pipes, beams, and channels. This will ensure that the architectural design requirements of these projects are met with the utmost professionalism.

FACCIN Group has established a prominent foothold in the APAC market, having installed numerous cutting-edge metal rolling machines in the region over the past decades. The company has earned the trust of major fabrication companies and is prepared to tackle the challenges that APAC encounters in its infrastructure development.

Versatility And Efficiency Of FACCIN’s Equipment For Metal Tube Bending

The group provides state-of-the-art tube bending solutions perfect for bending metal tubes of large diameters. The Roundo R and BB, along with the FACCIN RCMI series, are highly recommended choices for the infrastructure sector.

• The Roundo R series is a part of the group’s premium line of angle rolls. With capacities ranging from 1 to 20000 cm³, these angle rolls are perfect for any project. ROUNDO R series is meticulously designed and constructed to ensure years of dependable productivity. This is made possible by the incorporation of premium internal components from industry leaders such as Siemens, SKF, Vicker, and many others. To achieve the pinching position and rotational motion,the precise roll movements are proportional.

FACCIN R series boast independent control over each individual axis, ensuring optimum bending capacity at any speed, thanks to its advanced hydraulic system and noise-reducing components. Not only does it enhance control and ergonomics, it also simplifies the loading of profiles or tubes.

This results in increased production and a quicker return on investment. Additionally, our industry-leading low working height eliminates the need for costly pits, providing operators with even greater ergonomic benefits. For even greater precision a user-friendly control concept, the wCNC4, is provided as standard.

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Pressure Vessels A Vital Component In Oil And Gas Industry

Pressure vessels are vital components in the oil and gas industry, as well as other sectors such as petrochemical, chemical, and food processing. These enclosed containers play a crucial role in storing and transporting liquids, and gases at pressures that are significantly higher or lower than the ambient pressure.

In the oil and gas industry, tanks and pressure vessels are used for a variety of purposes. One type of tank commonly found in this sector is
storage vessels, which are designed to hold large quantities of oil, gas, or other fluids.

These storage vessels are carefully engineered to withstand the high volumes at low pressure. Another type of pressure vessel used in the oil and gas industry is heat exchanger.

These vessels facilitate the transfer of heat between fluids, allowing for efficient energy usage and temperature control in various processes. Heat exchangers are essential in applications such as oil refining, natural gas processing, and power generation.

Typically, a heat exchanger has a heavy walled shell and a low inside diameter. Boilers are yet another type of pressure vessel commonly
found in the oil and gas industry.

These vessels generate steam or hot water, which is then used for various purposes such as power generation, heating, or industrial processes. Boilers are widely used in refineries, petrochemical plants, and power plants, ensuring the smooth operation of these facilities.

Process vessels, including distillation columns, decanters and gravity settlers, industrial mixers, and chemical reactors, are also essential
pressure vessels in the oil and gas industry.

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Plate rolling machines are one of the most versatile equipment in the metal forming industry. They can be used to roll metal cans and cones to manufacture parts and components for a large variety of sectors, which allows maximising return on investment (ROI) to the fabricating shop easily.

Choosing the right partner is key to a successful operation, machines must be built with top of the range materials and components, where special attention to the machine structure is key. This will prevent not only malfunctions but also will reduce the minimum machine downtime.

Faccin Group’s plate rolling machines have an average life span of more than 25 years with proper use and maintenance.

An Insight On Plate Rolling Equipment

The plate rolls are made with two, three or four bending rolls. The pyramid-type plate rolls, with three or four rolls, are divided into two separate categories for cost and performance: bending rolls with planetary guides and bending rolls with linear guides.

The planetary guides are appreciated for their lower cost and the linear guides are preferred because they guarantee a shorter distance between the bending rolls and therefore rolling precision. The 4-roll plate bending machines, with linear or planetary guides, guarantee greater productivity and are easier to use as well as being the only ones that can effectively be automated with numeric controls.

The four roll plate rolls are the ideal solution for mass production, high volumes, repetitive production in an automatic cycle. They are fast and precise, and are normally used to produce wind towers, truck tanks, HVAC components, and the like.

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A shipbuilding company differentiates itself when it can build all types of vessels, whatever their complexity. From cruise liners to mega yacht, from military ships to high-tech offshore vessels.

In addition to a very competitive market, another big challenge for shipbuilding companies is that the design of ships is constantly changing to become increasingly highly efficient and sustainable for the environment. For these reasons, a highly adaptable production with technologically advanced machines, becomes the key to a successful operation.

Nowadays most companies use production techniques that have become obsolete. They are time consuming, unprecise, unsafe and they require highly skilled operators especially when producing very complex shapes like hull panels.  

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Specialising in heavy steel fabrication for the renewable energy industry, CS Wind Malaysia looked to Faccin for its rolling automation system. Prior to this project, CS Wind Malaysia performed several capacity calculations to evaluate new production methods and setups to achieve the desired capacity in a production area dedicated to the rolling of cans for wind tower composition.

Diego Morbini, Technical Sales Manager and part of Faccin’s WT division, commented: “Regular meetings and progress reports ensured that all interfaces, specifications, and requirements were guaranteed and fulfilled. This exclusive collaboration has been rich in content. Above all fully satisfying as we have solved all the challenges with the implementation of dedicated solutions to ensure maximum productivity of CS Wind Malaysia.”

An automatic rolling line was requested based on CS Wind’s technical specifications of its onshore and offshore transition piece manufacturing requirements. Faccin provided dedicated solutions capable of adapting to all phases of the rolling cycle; from the plate feeding phase into the machine — up to the precise alignment of the edges so as to swiftly proceed with the subsequent production operations, without overlooking the fundamental requirements related to safety regulations.

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The Faccin Group is a leading global metal forming machine manufacturer whose success has its roots in providing a wide range of bending machines to a substantial and diversified client base that includes the private and public entities within the machine tool industry.

The Group is unique in being the sole proprietor of leading brands in the metal forming industry ⎯ FACCIN ⎯ BOLDRINI and ROUNDO all united by a common feature: tailored and energy-efficient product-service systems that include plate rolling, profile bending, dished head lines and special machines.

How Has FACCIN Group Been Coping In The Current Industrial Climate?

In the last quarter of 2021, we were able to concretise very important projects, due to our long-standing relationship with our network of distributors, beating our nearest competition in many markets, particularly in Asia, by delivering heavy-duty machines that show how our group is the chosen partner when high performances and tights tolerances are required.

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Faccin S.p.A. is a leading metal forming machine producer that manufactures the widest range of plate rolls, angle rolls, dished head, and special machines. In this feature, Eng. Andrea Comparin, Rafael Soto, and Eng. Diego Morbini, all senior technical sales managers at Faccin Group Wind Towers Division, talk about the company’s Wind Towers Division, how the company is helping address the challenges in wind tower manufacturing, and the future for the wind tower industry.

(From L-R) Eng. Andrea Comparin, Rafael Soto, and Eng. Diego Morbini of Faccin Group Wind Towers Division.

WHY DID FACCIN GROUP CREATE A WIND TOWERS DIVISION?

Eng. Andrea Comparin (AC): Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement goals by 2050 will require a substantial acceleration across sectors and technologies, particularly in onshore and offshore wind power generation. This sector will play a significant role by becoming a prominent energy generation source, achieving an estimated 33 percent of the total production. 

This acceleration is only possible by increasing the wind capacity installation in the next 30 years, which means that the wind power industry will have to be prepared for such a significant growth. This rise of economies of scale will impact the supply chains, which have to be more competitive and technologically advanced. 

The production of wind towers does not escape this reality. Should the towers continue being a tube made of several round cans of ever thicker steel plates, the taller the towers are, then, a fast and precise rolling of these cans is crucial for manufacturers to stay competitive in the years to come.

Faccin Group’s Wind Towers Division has been created with the aim to, first, deeply understand the challenges faced by the manufacturers of wind towers in this market environment; then, interface with the different areas of the group such as R&D, product design and production in the creation of technologically advanced solutions for these challenges; and, finally, to support the customers throughout the whole process of acquisition with just-on-time deliveries, operation coordination, and continuous follow-up of the project, even after completion.  

WHAT CAN FACCIN OFFER TO THE HYPER COMPETITIVE WIND TOWER MANUFACTURING MARKET?

Eng. Diego Morbini (DM): With more than 30,000 units installed worldwide, Faccin is a leader in the development and construction of rolling and bending machines for steel plates. This wealth of knowledge and experience, fully supported by a worldwide network of active distributors, and a division fully dedicated to the wind tower industry, allow Faccin to quickly identify the trends and needs of the industry—which are then applied to designs; and by leveraging its vertically integrated production and cross-sector projects, to supply high-quality, cost-effective products within a short lead-time in this competitive market. This industrial proactivity and capability have earned Faccin the trust of the biggest manufacturers of wind towers worldwide.

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The year 2020 had been an extraordinary one, with the COVID-19 pandemic basically putting the global manufacturing industry on a standstill—at least except those essential industries that have scrambled to create medical equipment such as ventilators, and testing kits, as well as personal protective equipment including face masks and face shields.

The pandemic put into spotlight the agility and resiliency needed in every manufacturing industry, as supply chains get stuck and manufacturers are at a loss as to how to obtain their raw materials and parts. 

Nevertheless, the show must go on. And as vaccines are now being developed, it won’t be long until we see light at the end of this tunnel. In this special feature, experts in the metalworking industry provided their outlook for the coming year and their insights on how manufacturers should navigate whatever challenges the industry might still have along our way to recovery.

Creaform

Simon Côté, Product Manager

The metalworking industry will continue to undergo major transformations in 2021. As customers continue to require more complex and sophisticated parts, it is becoming even more crucial for metalworking firms to implement new strategies and technologies to monitor the quality and compliance of final products—all while accelerating throughput due to demanding timelines.

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Faccin Group

Rino Boldrini, Metal Forming Machine Specialist

There is no doubt 2020 will be remembered by most as a year to forget due to the pandemic and the global uncertainty, but it will also be considered as a starting point by those that were able to adapt to the market challenges by implementing or accelerating innovation-focused plans.

Click here to read what Rino expects this year! 

TRUMPF Asia Pacific

Chong Chee Ter, Managing Director

The outlook for the global economy in 2020 deteriorated significantly primarily due to the massive economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In 2021, we nevertheless are expecting global GDP growth to return back to the level of 2019.

Click here to read Chee Ter’s insights for 2021! 

igus

Carsten Haecker, Head of Asia Pacific

Metalworking companies across all industries have been facing increasing demands for years now—albeit some levelling was and is still visible in the current pandemic.  To hold their own fortress against international competition, companies need versatile and efficient solutions for a wide variety of production tasks. One solution is the digitalization and networking of production and logistics processes—the basic technologies surrounding Industry 4.0.

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ISCAR

Eran Salmon, Executive Head of Research and Development

“Business as Usual” is constantly being redefined at ISCAR to meet the varying needs of global metalworking industries. In such a reality, innovative technologies and business opportunities emerge to meet all the challenges ahead. 

Click here to read Eran’s insights for 2021! 

Marposs KK Japan and SEA

Marco Zoli
President

2020 has seen the COVID-19 pandemic act on top of the existing geopolitical factors and on the shift to e-mobility, with the result of accelerating the evolution of the manufacturing environment. The trend of focusing on production resilience is set to continue, resulting in a more localized supply chain and a higher concentration on global players. 

Click here to read what Marco expects for the year! 

Paul Horn GmbH

Lothar Horn, CEO

Despite the restrictions predicted for 2021, most businesses have not stood still. In industries where exhibitions play a major role, it was more a question of how to bring innovations to market—especially with regard to communication. Many of the people I spoke to were initially very excited about the digital possibilities, and certainly rightly so. 

Click here to read Lothar’s outlook for 2021! 

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence

Boon Choon Lim, President, Korea, ASEAN, Pacific, India

The year 2020 was characterized by virtual work and learning, as individuals and businesses reinvented themselves to maintain productivity. Optimising the digital landscape will continue in 2021, as companies embrace innovation to meet their needs. 

Click here to read what Boon Choon expects in 2021! 

Sandvik Coromant

Rolf Olofsson, Global Product Manager

To stay competitive, manufacturers need to rely more on digitized processes and less manual interaction. To meet the new requirements, we need to continue to drive the development and digitalization of the manufacturing industry. Sandvik Coromant have a unique venture with Microsoft, combining Sandvik Coromant’s expertise in machining with Microsoft’s technical solutions. 

Click here to read Rolf’s insights for 2021! 

Siemens Digital Industries Software

Alex Teo, Managing Director and Vice President for South East Asia

2020 underscored two important pillars of manufacturing: adaptability and resiliency. With COVID-19 disrupting global supply chains, manufacturers need to inject their production chain with the agility to pivot and adapt to constantly changing market conditions. 

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SLM Solutions Singapore

Gary Tang, Sales Director, Southeast Asia

“Change is the only constant in life” and this is characteristically so for 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Though businesses were disrupted, but in the same fast pace, opportunities arose for additive manufacturing (AM) in the medical frontline, responding quickly to severe restrictions in supply chains and traditional manufacturing bases.

Click here to read Gary’s outlook for 2021! 

Renishaw ASEAN

Steve Bell, General Manager

Unusual times in 2020 have brough significant difficulties in all walks of life, and manufacturing is no exception. The downturn in industrial activity has been evident during these COVID-19 times—mandatory closures, disruptions to the supply chain, and the stringent social distancing regulations imposed a devastating impact worldwide including the ASEAN region.   

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VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association)

Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, Managing Director

The coronavirus pandemic is leaving deep scars in the German and international machine tool industry. For 2020, the VDW expects a decline in production of 30 percent. After economic data and economic indicators showed an upward trend in the third quarter, uncertainty in the economy is currently increasing in view of the second wave of the pandemic.

Click here to read Dr. Wilfried’s outlook for this year! 

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