World-Class Roll Forming Workshop

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Explore your roll forming capacity with the new Justification for Roll Forming Session. Receive custom solutions to your critical issues from experts at a special networking reception. View Nucor Crawfordville’s special Castrip® process firsthand on an exclusive inside tour.

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Roll with the experts at the World Class Roll Forming Workshop!

 

Keeping production on schedule is key in roll forming operations. Strengthen your skills and know-how with a comprehensive industry update at FMA’s World-Class Roll Forming Workshop April 17-18, 2013, Indianapolis, Ind.

Designed with smaller workshop sessions for more interaction, World Class features roll forming experts who are committed to answering your questions, providing solutions to your problems, and giving insights that will help you improve your operation.

Choose nine of twelve time-relevant workshops on topics such as specialty materials used in roll forming and troubleshooting, or new 2013 sessions that cover safety and cost justification that will elevate beginners on necessary core skills and provide current updates for the more experienced roll former.

 

Please note that this workshop is for continuous strip steel roll forming operations, not plate rolling.

 

Networking with the Experts Reception  – Wednesday, 5-8 p.m.

The collective knowledge of the presenting experts is invaluable and you can take full advantage of their experience as you spend an evening with them at a special three hour ‘Networking with the Experts Reception”. You can bring your parts, drawings, and challenges to get the analysis and solutions you need to implement in your organization in a relaxing atmosphere while getting to know them, plus have time to connect with fellow attendees.

 

Plant Tour – Nucor Crawfordsville – Thursday, 6:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Nucor Crawfordsville is the site of the world’s first commercial compact strip plant (CSP), built in 1989, as well as the world’s first commercial Castrip® twin-roll strip casting facility or Castrip® process. Installed in 2002, this unique technology is ideally suited for light-gauge hot rolled sheet production. As the first continuous thin-slab cast flat-rolled steel making facility in the world, the Crawfordsville, Indiana mill puts its extra experience into everything it makes. This tour will include Castrip®. Therefore, aconfidentiality agreement will need to be signed prior to the tour.

 

“World-Class is a must for anyone currently using roll forming, or those thinking of adding the capability. With industry leaders from across the country, this is the place to get all your questions answered.”   Scott McMeekan, President, Ferret, Inc., Elkart, Ind.

 

General Information

April 17-18, 2013			Registration:
	Columbia Club		FMA/TPA Members $695* General $895*
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Columbia Club 121 Monument Circle Indianapolis, IN 46204 PH: 800-635-1361 or 317-767-1361 URL:www.columbia-club.org/
Contact the Columbia Club and identify yourself as an FMA World-Class Roll Forming Workshop attendee to receive the discounted rate of $75 single.  Make your reservation early! After March 16, group rates cannot be guaranteed, and reservations will be made only on a space-available basis.
Complementary wireless is included throughout the club. Valet parking with in/out privileges is $25 per night. The Columbia Club is a smoke free facility and all guests are subject to the House Rules of the club including dress code.

 

 

Thank you to our exclusive Industry Sponsor:

Roll-Kraft is one of the premier tooling and equipment manufacturers in the roll forming industry. For nearly 50 years, Roll-Kraft has excelled at roll design and manufacturing for both roll forming and tube & pipe producers worldwide. For cold-forming systems and specialty equipment, the product line offers quality and reliability, backed by decades of experience.Roll-Kraft serves customers in more than 50 countries, relying on ISO 9001:2008 quality management certification to ensure that the very best products are offered through continuous process improvements and investment in new technologies.

Roll-Kraft also provides services for roll forming and tubing manufacturers. One of the most effective services is the design of tooling using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software to identify problem areas before manufacturing begins. After tooling or equipment is designed and manufactured, Roll-Kraft can provide testing. In addition, they offer on-site training seminars, mill evaluations, alignments, engineering consultations, and on-site assistance in setup and initial runs of tooling and equipment. For more information visit the brand new website www.roll-kraft.com.