Cidan Machinery Group
Cidan Machinery Group, based in Sweden, offer a wide range of panbrake folders and guillotine shears for companies operating in the sheet metal, construction and manufacturing industries across the globe. Power Machinery is the proud Australian dealer for Cidan Machinery Group.
Cidan has been offering the highest quality machines, where their innovative solutions and patents gives customers unique benefits for the past 115 years.
Operating within a model of continuous improvement, innovation, automation and quality as the guiding principles for the development of Cidan machines assuring you that when you purchase a Cidan machine, it will be durable, long lasting and will improve your production.
Cidan Panbrake Folders
Cidan Shear Guillotines
The History of Cidan and Power Machinery
Power Machinery partnered with Cidan in the Australian market in the early 1990s. For the next 10 years, we introduced Cidan’s [small manual folders that used gas struts to assist bending rather than the massive welded counterweights the Australian market was used to.Â
Soon after innovative shops were also investing in Cidan electromechanical shears and slitting cut to length lines as well. Despite their premium price, sales continued to expand. Sheet metal shops across Australia appreciated how much more comfortable, and more accurate the tools were to use compared to the locally made machines.
In 1993 Cidan acquired Goteneds, a Swedish machine tool manufacturer with a history dating back to 1907. At time Goteneds had a game-changing folder. Their electromechanical folder featured a unique invention, the Combi Head. The Combi Head was a triangular clamping beam that had a full-length folding blade on one corner and segmented panbrake fingers on another. The operator could quickly select which function was required, and the machine automatically rotated the head and locked into position the clamping blade needed.
Cidan and Goteneds was a successful merger, and by leveraging each others strengths, markets and sales expanded. In 2009 all production and their head office was moved to Sweden.
At the end of 2017, Cidan acquired Forstner. Forstner, based in Austria, is a company specialising in Slitting and Cut to Length Lines. This has resulted in probably the most innovative breakthrough to date.
Cidan has since partnered with Forstner, nuIT Software and Thalmann Long Folders of Switzerland to produce the BASE (Bending And Slitting Engine). The BASE is a fully automated bending system for roofing products up to 8.0m long. The system can automatically select the coil, slit it to width, cut to length, transfer it to the folding machine and then bend the piece to the programmed shoe and size and then transfer the finished part to be picked and packed.
The whole process is fully automatic from the coil to the finished part. This is a breakthrough given the labour-intensive nature of first producing a single piece of flashing once you consider all the various processes that go into it.
If you work with sheet metal and take pride in the accuracy and quality of your product we would suggest looking at Cidan’s innovative range of folders. Models such as the FX Folding machine with Combi Beam with a 2.0m backgauge table could revolutionise your sheet metal shop.
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