Slide-out rails

Universal product portfolio for your individual applications

The application areas for our roll forming systems in the slide-out rail sector are extremely varied. Amongst others, this includes partial or telescopic slide-outs for drawers, table slide-outs, rails for sliding doors, baking oven slide-outs or stainless steel slide-outs for dishwashers.

High expectations, clearly fulfilled

The expectations of your customers in respect of quality slide-out rails are high: high load bearing capacity, small installation space, minimum noise, long service life are just a few of the requirements. Their product designers fulfil these wishes with complex profile cross-sections, complex punching or embossing, minimum roughness of the running surfaces and tolerances which elsewhere in the sheet processing sector would be classified as unachievable: Many products of the market leaders are produced on our roll forming systems.

With our roll forming systems for slide-out rails, you will not only benefit from high productivity: first and foremost our roll forming machines are characterised by their short pay-back times. Our roll forming developments reduce your material consumption by up to 6 percent and ensure a correspondingly high production quantity. In addition, our roll forming machines for slide-out rails deliver extremely high availability and outstanding process reliability.

Examples of roll forming machines for slide-out rails

With our roll forming machines for slide-out rails, you can also realise complex profile cross-sections.

Strip feeding systems

Within an overall concept, you will also receive the appropriate strip-feeding system from us: It is used for the continuous supply of the roll forming system with the raw material, the flat strip. Flat strip systems make an important contribution to the productivity of the overall system and the quality of the parts. Highly automated strip systems perform a complete coil change in 3 minutes, including welding of the strip ends. Precision-alignment systems and a low-stress strip feed into the downstream punching or roll forming machines provide the necessary conditions for the production of precision components with the narrowest of tolerances. Dependent on the nature of the requirements, the more cost-efficient standard system can also be used.

Roll formed part

The core of a system for the production of slide-out rails is our roll forming machine with the roll forming tool. Process-sure tolerances down to a few thousandths of an inch can only be achieved if there is perfect interaction between the forming technology and the machine. Simultaneously, high production rates of up to 120 parts per minute are achieved. Of particular importance here is the Start-Stop® operation introduced by us. Here the roll forming machine operates like a highly dynamic precision roller feed, feeding the completed parts with high positional accuracy to the downstream press and punching tools. A further advantage are the low tool costs, especially when producing length variants. Also very important is the low material consumption: In contrast to press manufacturing there is practically no cutting scrap. Additionally, our roll forming systems can reduce the strip thickness within the strip thickness tolerance and thus generate an additional production quantity. Thanks to integrated cleaning technology, the produced slide-out rails are clean and dry. An integrated rounding station ensures that the profile edges are rounded and that the profiles leave the machine without dangerous burrs.

Punching and embossing systems

Dependent on the requirement, we will put into practice roll forming concepts for ensuring maximum production performance while for extreme requirements the emphasis is on flexibility. This means production performance of up to 120 parts per minute and changeover times of a few minutes. Thus, when producing length variants, the individual tools can be moved automatically and precisely into the new position. A special control software can be used to reduce the scrap fraction during a length change to a low residual quantity. This helps you to save material costs. Not every rail production requires a high performance system: for reduced requirements focussed on the production performance or changeover times, we can supply you with particularly economic standard systems. Irrespective of whether they are high performance or standard systems, all of our roll forming systems operate with notable quietness thanks to effective sound insulation. The sound insulation is designed so that access to the system when operating or during changeovers is not significantly impaired.

Contact our experts for the furniture industry

Each sector has its own special requirements, which is why your company too will have its own special questions about roll forming machines and processes: Our furniture industry roll forming experts have the answers you need!