Our Special Cold Forming Machines

Forming Process

The four steps of the forming machine process are done in less than one year. Over one million tubes have been formed via this method. Special machines for a processing copper billet prior to extrusion.

Instrument Panel Beam Tube Cold Forming Cell

This forming cell utilizes an innovative process developed for the manufacture of automobile instrument panel beams. The manufacturing process is carried out by two different forming procedures, both of which Mitchell Co excels at. In the U.S. and Canada, patents have been issued that cover this unique process.

The cell includes a 50,000-lb, three die push pointer and a special tube drawing unit. The drawing unit uses the same tooling components found in a standard draw bench along with additional features that make it unique in the automotive parts manufacturing the industry.

This forming process makes the previous procedure of joining two tubes of different cross sections obsolete, the single formed tube of varying.