Category: Angle Bending


Can you imagine living in a home larger than the airplane hangar for a 747? Well David and Jackie Siegel are about to finish construction on their 90,000 square foot residence. David Siegel, the billionaire founder of Westgate Resorts, started Read more…


Angle iron is a common standard structural steel shape. Angles are L-shaped cross sections made by hot or cold rolling at the mill. The most common angle iron used for manufacturing OEM products in the USA is A36 a standard Read more…


What happens when a screw bearing for a 1200-foot freighter seizes in the mid-Atlantic, somewhere between the Panama Canal and the St. Lawrence Seaway?  The ship requires a tug to a shipbuilder in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin, that’s been in the Read more…


In the world of curved steel, it is often that artists come to bender/rollers as customers, in search of our metal bending and forming capabilities to achieve something that their creative genius has worked up deep within their imaginative minds. Read more…


The underground mining/boring industry has always employed some of the most creative, hands-on workers.  One entrepreneur in Missouri used a rolled and welded plate cylinder as the base ring for a 36″ diameter drill bit for underground directional boring.  Welding Read more…


Contract manufacturers (also called “job shops”) are often presented with requests for quotations from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).  For example, a company that specializes in curving metals might be asked to price custom rolled angle iron to become component parts of Read more…


A common type of curved structural steel is the angle ring or angle flange.  Commonly made of carbon steel, stainless steel or aluminum, an angle ring is made by rolling a piece of structural angle into a ring and then Read more…


Cone-bottom silo or hopper-bottom storage bins refer to a cylindrical drum with a rolled metal cone at the bottom. Cone-bottom silos are used when complete drainage is needed. The configuration of the hopper silo depends on the type of material Read more…


What happens when over 47,000 lbs. of Type 304 stainless steel rolled angle segments are required rather quickly and the producing mills cannot provide these parts for more than 20 weeks?  Simple:  take 20ft plate x 1in. thick, saw it Read more…


Fans are installed to provide exhaust, intake or circulation. A common application for angle rings and other curved steel sections is in fan housings.  The metal rings serve as structural supports as well as mating flanges to connect to round Read more…

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