Colleagues at Contour made their own video about bending on our press brake with 130,000 kg of pressing force: their own initiative, with no film crew or ad agency.
Metalworking
Contour is a metalworking supplier specialized in several disciplines. Contour’s strength lies in the combination of all metalworking processes that we can carry out in-house.
We master each process in a high-quality, guaranteed, and professional way.
We work as much as possible with CNC-controlled machines. These machines enable us to produce with high precision. By saving NC programs and applying revision management, we can reuse and, if necessary, improve the NC program for every production series of a product. In this way, we deliver consistently high quality with short lead times.
Because we carry out a wide range of metalworking processes in-house, we can optimally coordinate the different successive metalworking steps with each other, both technically and logistically. In this way, we work cost-efficiently and keep lead times short.
By combining both technical knowledge and good business processes, we create added value for our customers.
Sheet metal fabrication
Sheet metal fabrication is a category of metalworking that focuses on working with metal sheet. Contour specializes in sheet metal fabrication of thin sheet. This is our core business. Our customers have been coming to us for years for the high-quality sheet metal we provide, whether it’s challenging and specialized components or larger series of fully automated produced products.
Welding
All production steps prior to welding are coordinated so that the metal components fit as accurately as possible in the welding assemblies. As a result, we can produce welded assemblies cost-efficiently and with as little rework as possible.
Powder coating
After welding and finishing the weld seams, we can provide the sheet metal parts in-house with a high-quality powder coating.
Adhesive bonding
Sometimes it is better to bond metal rather than weld it. That has various advantages, such as limited heat input, less rework, and shorter lead times.
Assembly
Ultimately, all welded assemblies, sheet metal parts, and purchased parts come together in the assembly department at the right time. Here, they are then assembled into a final product and provided with suitable packaging.
In the assembly department at Contour, we work with flexibly arranged assembly zones. We can quickly set up and dismantle each zone, tailored to the products being assembled at that moment.
The department can see on dashboards for which production orders the required parts from the bill of materials are already available for assembly. With the press of a button, the parts can be called from the warehouse and prepared in the assembly department for assembly.
Cleanroom
For customers with strict requirements for product cleanliness, we can clean and assemble products in our cleanroom.
News about machines and technology
In this video, you follow a flat sheet of metal through our factory in Winterswijk, from the first cut until it leaves as a finished product.
Contour has put an extra Haeger 824 PEM inserter with two automatic feed bowls into use. That brings us to four PEM inserters.
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With our pickling and passivation installation, we remove contaminants from stainless steel products and improve corrosion resistance.
By (post-)milling sheet metal, precise slots, fits, and reference surfaces can be added to sheet metal components.
Contour is your supplier for custom tube laser cut parts. Achieve complex shapes, fast turnaround, and cost-effective precision.
UV printing on sheet metal is a technology that prints metal durably using UV ink and ultraviolet light.
Laser engraving of metal with a fiber laser is a precise and permanent method of marking metal with text or QR codes.
CNC machines are computer-controlled production machines that can run a digital CNC program with machining instructions.