LVD Awarded Business from Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Their Synchro-Form adaptive bending technology will be used on a custom-built 1,000 ton press brake with special tooling to produce large panels for the fuselages of commercial aircraft.
Posted: March 21, 2018
LVD Company nv (Gullegem, Belgium) has been awarded an order from Japanese technology company Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (KHI; Tokyo, Japan), via their sales agent Itochu Machine-Technos Corporation (Tokyo, Japan), for the unique Synchro-Form adaptive bending technology for large-profile bending. The KHI order is for a custom built, 1,000 ton class of Synchro-Form press brake equipped with special tooling to produce large panels for the fuselages of commercial aircraft. Forming such XXL parts to a desired contour is a challenging task and one that will be significantly simplified with this technology, which maintains angular consistency and the required geometric profile and enables an in-process automatic quality control when handling, positioning and bending large parts with multiple bends.
In Japan, KHI is a key production partner for the production of the Boeing 777X, the successor to Boeing’s popular 777 aircraft. The 777X will be the largest and most efficient twin-engine jet in the world, unmatched in every aspect of performance. The Synchro-Form press brake meets the tight tolerance requirements demanded of the KHI application and the need for complete automation. The order was awarded to LVD after several bending trials and strict accuracy measurements were satisfied. The Synchro-Form press brake will be manufactured in the world-class production facility at LVD headquarters in Belgium.
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