Cnc Press Brake

CNC press brakes or CNC Metal benders are essentially machines designed to bend sheet metal and sheet metal components to various profiles and designs.A press brake is a piece of manufacturing equipment that is used to bend sheet metal. A press brake is typically narrow and long so that large pieces of sheet metal can be bent by it. A press brake bends sheet metal by lowering a punch onto sheet metal that has been positioned on top of a die.And later on “press” evolved to mean “a machine that applies force by squeezing”. For the sheet metal fabricators, they always refer to the punches and dies, which exert the force on the sheet metal to make it bend, as “presses”. That's where the “press brake” term comes from.There are two primary types of press brakes: hydraulic and electronic. Hydraulic press brakes are the oldest press brakes and as such are more common than their electronic counterparts. Hydraulic press brakes can handle the heaviest workloads.