Metalworking Hydraulic Presses

Savage Engineering’s custom metalworking hydraulic presses are available in Four-Post Guided Platen and Straight Side Gib-Guided frame types. Applications include forming, stamping, blanking, bending, piercing, punching, perforating, trimming, transfer, flanging, joggling, forcing, and others.

Our custom metal forming hydraulic stamping presses have large-diameter, chrome-plated tie rods run through eight line-bored bronze bushing assemblies that guide the platens, ensuring positive alignment of all four posts. An extra-long guide bushing tube separates each pair of bushings for a generous bearing ratio.

Savage Straight Side Press fulfills applications where the tool is not guided, the load is not centered, multiple operations occur, or more accurate parallelism is required than a 4-post press offers. Straight side presses offer either 45 degrees or 8-way adjustable gibbing for a tight running clearance. Exclusive self-lubricating gib liners eliminate the need for lubrication systems.

Savage’s hydraulic stamping presses and Hydraulic Blanking Press employ robust straight side housing type construction with prestressed tie rods running through the side housing uprights. This type of construction is used on the most demanding applications with off-center loads or break-through shock. Blanking presses feature impact dampers to absorb break-through shock at its origin. They reduce stress on the press, dies, and foundation. They also minimize the noise produced during blanking.

Electro-hydraulic controls are available to make any or all of the press functions programmable. The Savage setup controller with a touchscreen operator interface is user-friendly. At the touch of a finger, the operator can change press set-ups from those stored in memory making set-up faster and consistently repeatable from job to job. Simply enter a job number assigned to a die and the hydraulic stamping press is ready to run. Optimum pre-established setpoints are automatically entered for tonnage, speed, positions, and dwell time values.