Luton-based Trumpf Ltd’s Bend TecDay 2024, held at the company’s Luton headquarters earlier this month, proved a resounding success with a large number of visitors attending — a mixture of both existing and potential customers.

A highlight of the day was the chance for visitors to get ‘up close and personal’ with Trumpf’s new TruBend Series 1000 press brake. Designed as an ideal entry into Trumpf bending solutions, the new machine offers simple and reliable operation and high levels of precision and speed.

Trumpf’s TruBend Series 1000 has a robust system structure and features high-quality components and an intuitive programming system, which reduces the skill level required for efficient operation. Bend TecDay 2024 included an overview of Trumpf’s TecZone Bend programming software. Visitors could discover how this advanced software automatically creates a program proposal based on 2-D and 3-D data in just seconds. TecZone Bend is available at no cost for the first 12 months.

Through live demonstrations, visitors had the chance to learn about machine attributes such as precision bending — the four-axis back-gauge positions the sheet metal to within 0.05mm and enables users to bend complex parts with high levels of repeatability and speed (up to 400 mm/s). Another key feature is automatic, intelligent wedge crowning, with users benefiting from high angle accuracy along the entire bend length and the automatic calculation of angle correction.

Visitors to Bend TecDay 2024 could also see for themselves the machine’s large open height and stroke, its BendGuard optical protection system and the 19in touchscreen user interface fully loaded with Trumpf bending data technology and network connectivity. Notably, the control’s photorealistic 3-D visualisation aids both simulation and production, providing operators with step-by-step guidance from tool set up to component completion.

Visitors were also able to experience the broad spread of CNC bending machines on show at Trumpf’s Luton showroom. Based on pioneering innovation, the company’s extensive portfolio includes machines for die bending and panel bending, as well as large-format bending tools and fully automated solutions.