Press Brakes
Manual folding machines electric folders and hydraulic and CNC press brakes for sheet metal bending.
What This Category Is Really For
Bend angle repeatability is where sheet metal work gets expensive. A manual folder is fine for a bracket, but once a job has twenty parts with the same flange, every degree of variation shows up at assembly and someone spends the afternoon adjusting.
- Manual folders through hydraulic and CNC press brakes so a shop can step up as volume grows
- CNC back gauge control for repeat bend positions across a batch
- Manual sheet metal benders for light gauge work without hydraulics
Who Buys Press Brakes and Why
Who It Is For
- Sheet metal fabrication shops
- Enclosure and cabinet manufacturers
- HVAC and ducting fabricators
- Shops moving from manual folding to hydraulic bending
Where These Machines Are Used
- Bending enclosure and cabinet panels
- Forming ducting and HVAC components
- Producing repeat flanged parts to a fixed angle
- Light gauge folding in a small workshop
Industries That Run Press Brakes
Sheet Metal Fabrication
Sheet metal shops cut, bend, roll and form. XAIMC supplies shears press brakes plate rolls tube benders and fibre laser cutting across the manual to CNC range.
Guides Related to Press Brakes
Press Brake and Guillotine Shear Basics for Sheet Metal Shops
A guillotine shear cuts sheet to size and a press brake folds that sheet into the finished part, and the two machines together form the core of almost
Press Brakes Questions
When is a CNC press brake worth it over a hydraulic one?
When you bend batches with several different bend positions per part. CNC back gauge control removes the setup time between bends, which is the real cost.
How do I specify a press brake?
Bending length and plate thickness in your hardest material. Those two set the tonnage and the machine.
Do you supply the bending tooling?
Standard punch and die sets ship with the machine. Special forms are quoted against your drawings.
Get a Quote on Press Brakes
Tell us the work you need the machine to do and we will confirm the model, the tooling and the lead time.