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Sheet-metal stamping

One missing bracket stops a whole body shop.

The smallest part on the car can stop the biggest line.

Pressed sheet-metal brackets, panels and reinforcements, from ENCO plants in Haryana and Gujarat.

Blanking, piercing, forming and drawing of steel sheet into pressed automotive parts on mechanical and hydraulic presses.

What the process covers

Stamping turns flat steel sheet into a finished pressed part in one or more press strokes. A typical line blanks the outline, pierces holes, then forms, flanges or draws the shape. Parts that need several operations run on a tandem line of presses, or in a progressive die (see progressive die stamping).

ENCO’s press capacity

129 presses at Kapriwas, Bhagapura and Dharuhera - 77 mechanical, 36 hydraulic and 16 progressive - from 100 T to 630 T. The double-point presses take beds up to 2,800 mm.

Sheet 0.5 to 8 mm - cold-rolled, galvannealed, hot-rolled and high-tensile steel up to 590 MPa.

Where it runs

A part that cracks, a die that wears, a supplier that slips?

Ask an ENCO engineer. You get an answer from a person who runs presses every day, within one working day.

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