National Machinery LLC

Rugged and robust headers form balls, tapered or cylindrical rollers as well as projectile parts at extremely high speeds to industry standards with exceptional quality.

• faster speeds --> more production output
• quick-change features --> increased production time
• fixed kickout stroke for faster job changeover and set-up
• precision tolerances throughout high-volume production runs
• extended die life
• 88 – 92 % machine utilization
• high machine reliability --> ghost shift operation

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Raising performance and precision to an even higher level, the FORMAX® 2000 design combines zero-clearance heading slide guiding, straight-across transfer, sealed heading slide liners, precision linear feed, quick-change offline setup, and advanced computer controls into a forming system that delivers close-tolerance parts to net or near net shape.

Purpose-tailored to munition production demands with special technical specifications and special machine features, our compact FX35 & FX36 machine models are your choice machines to produce brass/steel pistol shell casings at over 250 parts per minute.

Of course, this machine may also be configured to produce pre-formed rifle tube blanks from brass or steel material (just 1 drawing operation left) as well as monolithic projectiles.

Your advantage as compared to traditional cup-and-draw-processes:

• 50 % less space requirements
• 50 % less workforce requirements
• 50 % less water to treat and dispose
• 60 % less annealing efforts
• up to 30% less scrap
• fewer machines to set up
• shortened WIP
• less cost for maintenance and handling
• shorter changeover times when switching calibers (< 1h)

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The FORMAX®PLUS cold former meets the challenge of difficult-to-transfer and tight-tolerance jobs with the patented Pick-Move-Place transfer; it has all the standard features of the FORMAX®2000 cold forming machines such as zero-clearance heading slide guiding, sealed heading slide liners, and precision linear feed, but the FORMAX®Plus also comes with larger cutoff capacity and expanded die space.

Purpose-tailored to munition production demands with special technical specifications and special machine features, our compact FXP36M-R & FXP46M-R machine models are your choice machines to produce fully drawn rifle cartridges in either brass or steel at speeds at or exceeding 200 parts per minute.

Your advantage as compared to traditional cup-and-draw-processes:

• 50 % less space requirements
• 50 % less workforce requirements
• 50 % less water to treat and dispose
• 60 % less annealing efforts
• up to 30% less scrap
• fewer machines to set up
• shortened WIP
• less cost for maintenance and handling
• shorter changeover times when switching calibers (< 1h)

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