Industries Served
Samson Roll Formed Products, offers Lock seam tubing and other techniques for metal forming for a variety of industries. Please review a list of sample industries below.
Aerospace: Roll formed parts that are used in aircraft include airframe stringers and longerons; interior components like trim and window frames; stiffeners; jet engine components such as honeycomb seals, shrouds and backing rings; leading edges of composite helicopter blades, etc.
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Agriculture: The agriculture sector uses a variety of roll formed shapes that include channels and angles and other shapes such as trim and structural components for tractors, wagons, combines, and other farm implement equipment, grain bin floors, chicken roosts, grape stakes, etc.
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Appliance: Roll forming is used to make parts for the appliance sector that include refrigerator panels, shelving, shell fronts and shelf ladder, door seal retainers, decorative trim, handles, rack track, mullion strip, escutcheons, deflectors, glass retainer, backsplash, back guard, flipper door, dishwasher rackslide, racktrack, shelf rail, door trim, window pack for ovens, etc.
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Athletic Flooring Hardware: Roll formed channels and angles such as C channels, hat channels, J channels and angles are used in the construction of different kinds of athletic flooring systems that are sold by maple hardwood flooring manufacturers. These roll formed shapes are components of various sports floors, Locktite Channel and Clips (1413), Bio-Channel (1786), Striptite (1622), 1983 Channel, and 1979 Channel.
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Automotive: Roll forming is used to make automotive parts that include decorative trim, mouldings, window frames, wire harness, division bars, and seating track, grab bars, etc.
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Bridge/Highway Products: Signs, signposts, and guardrails, and deck reinforcement panels are examples of roll formed highway and bridge parts.
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Building/Constrution Products: Roll formed shapes are used extensively by various segments of the building products industry including channels and angles used as joists, studs, furring, slats, control joint, expansion joint , and corner bead used in commercial and residential construction; as metal roof decks and siding panels for metal buildings; as trim for wood windows, stiffener for vinyl windows and framing for metal doors; as metal slats in rolling doors; as track for sliding doors; as decorative trim for housewares, etc.
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Electronics: Electronic enclosures, microchip transfer slide sections, cable tray, etc. are manufactured by roll forming.
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Elevators and Escalator: Roll formed stainless steel channels and angles are used in the construction of elevators and escalators as decorative trim and roll formed shapes are used as internal framework components.
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Fenestration: The fenestration industry is the door and window industry. Roll formed parts include pre-painted aluminum cladding; nail fin; vinyl window stiffener, also called reinforcement; sliding door track, also called patio door track or roller cap track; hinge bead; screen frame; spacer, muntin, security screen frame components called single wing, double wing, and mainframe that are used primarily in HUD housing construction, etc.
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Furniture: The furniture industry can be subdivided into several smaller sectors such as business and institutional furniture, lawn and patio furniture, housewares, kitchen and bath, seating, etc. that include roll formed products such as modular and sliding partitions; work surface reinforcements; shelves; drawer slides; kitchen and file cabinets; lighting fixtures; metal picture frames; decorative trim, etc. See Custom Power Distribution Assemblies feature.
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Garage Doors: Roll formed channels are often used as garage door slats, track, and bottom bar.
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Greenhouse: Roll formed parts used in greenhouse construction include channels and angles that are used for framing, joists, monorail conveyors, irrigation booms, spring lock channel, etc.
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HVAC: The heating, ventilation, and air conditioning industry uses roll formed shapes in electric heater housings; air conditioner cases; ductwork; fireplace trim, pattern control diffusers; air filter frames, cooling tower louvers; solar collector panels, baffles and louvers, etc.
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Housewares: Roll formed channels, angles, and lockseam tubes are used in various housewares and hardware applications such as drapery hardware – top rail, bottom rail (also called hemline channel), café rods - ladders, garment racks, shoe racks, toaster ovens, etc.
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Kitchen/Bath: Kitchen and bath products such as sink rim, lock seam towel bars, shower rods hand-held shower wall mounts, light poles, drawer slides, etc. can be made by roll forming.
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Lawn and Garden: Lock seam tubing and other roll formed parts are used in several lawn and garden products – bird feeders, grills, swimming pools, greenhouses, tents, Tiki Torches, lawn edging, grape stakes, etc.
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Lighting Fixtures: Roll formed lighting fixtures include louvers and baffles.
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Lockseam Tubing: Lockseam (also spelled as two words, lock seam) tubing is an alternative to welded tubing in lighter wall thicknesses - typically less than 0.030”. Lock seam tubing is used in such products as residential flagpole kits, shoe racks, garment racks, shelf supports for corrugated displays, lawn torches, badminton poles, maypoles, canopy bed frames, towel bars, lighting fixtures, shower rods, telescoping tubing applications, etc. See Lock Seam Tube feature.
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Material Handling: Material handling equipment such as conveyors use roll formed channels and angles and gravity flow channels for framework members.
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Railroad/Rapid Transit: Roll formed channels and roll formed angles are used in the construction of railroad and rapid transit cars. These roll formed shapes consist of structural shapes as well as light gauge roll formed parts such as track, supports, trim, grab bars, etc.
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Seating: Roll formed channels are used in seating applications such as seat backs, seating track, etc.
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Solar: Samson has the technical expertise and experience to produce the profiles needed to meet the exacting demands of the solar power industry, whether they range in complexity from simple angles and channels to more exotic profiles requiring multi-stage operations.
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Storage: Storage rack components made by roll forming include vertical and horizontal cross members that are designed to interlock using keyhole patterns, etc.
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Store Fixtures: Roll forming is used in the manufacturer of store fixture components such as POP displays, price card mouldings, garment racks.
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Swimming Pool Hardware: Trial and error is not the ideal method for building structures like built-in swimming pools. One manufacturer discovered this. And then turned to Samson custom roll forming for the most-effective means to keep its customers in the swim. Download our shape catalog page Swimming Pool Hardware or read more in our news archive.
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Transportation: The transportation industry - aerospace, automotive, truck and bus, marine, railroad and rapid transit, etc. – uses many roll formed shapes.
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Truck/Bus: Roll forming is also used in the manufacture of trucks and buses. Roll formed parts include structural channels and angles that comprise the frames, stainless steel grab bars, decorative trim, seating track, etc.
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Vending: Roll formed shapes are used as dividers, bases, and trim on vending machines.
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