Applications...

Special formats applied in the design of Helices that require either internal legs to sit flush against the shaft, perimeter slots, or special-shaped notches (and an endless range of other unique, bespoke requirements like these) presents an almost limitless range of options for any manufacturing workshop that have our Helix Flight Forming machines and advanced technologies.

The ability to form these special-styled flights, including with Cant Angled Flights, or formed using special materials; or, even for part-revolution sections, clearly adds far greater scope, capability and the bonus of an increased speciality to any chosen or unique project when that need arises.

Screw conveyors are used to convey materials from point A, to point B, whether that is from tiny, stainless steel augers for the pharmaceutical industry; or, super-heavy-duty conveyors used for moving course, abrasive and heavy industrial materials and everything in-between, screw conveyors are functional across a vast array of industries.

Giving complete flexibility over the critical variables, including: The Diameter of the plate, Shaft size, Pitch, Thickness, and Grade of material used, (Mild Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel, High Tensile Steel, Abrasion Resistant Plates, Chromium Carbide sandwich plates, etc.) the owner of a Helix Flight Forming Machine has the freedom and ability to design the most effective and efficient solutions for almost any given project.

Forming helices with Food Grade Stainless-Steel brings a strict requirement to ensure a ferrous contamination-free surface is maintained, without any marking visible on the faces of the helices, with clean and smooth welds that are finished to a food grade, perfect standard of high-polish.

These obviously demanding and exacting standards start at the beginning of the process ...with the helix forming process, and Helix Flight’s ferrous contamination-free system results in the perfect helix for Food Production Equipment requirements, well-designed to achieve the desired results, and the sought after excellence each and every time.

With over 450 different types of applications available for Screw Presses around the world, there are many special features that can be applied by using Helix Flight Forming Machinery through using our technologies, including; Conical Shafts, Cant Angles, Tapering Diameter helices... The list is almost endless!

A Helix Flight Manufacturing Machine is capable of producing hollow helices by joining two helices together using Cant Angles that are positioned back-to-back to produce an open, continuous void between the two helices when they're joined together. This void can then be filled with either heating or cooling products/gels/liquids to maintain a required constant temperature for whatever material is being conveyed.

Helix Flight’s Blank Cut Design Manager (BCDM) software is an integral part of this complex production process; and with it... the definite delivery of a competitive advantage.

Common to many Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM's) designs are large, lower helix lead-edge, with Outer Diameters of up to 2,700mm that have to be highly-accurate, with tight-fitting tolerances on the lead-edge; this enables the blade to sweep material without waste off the wagon floor. This fact, together with being able to form these helices with an aggressive perimeter taper in their final cut form, allows Helix Flight Forming Technology to lead the way in this highly-specialist, and demanding, field of helix forming manufacturing. Our Blank Cut Design Management (BCDM) software makes a simple task of what once (and to some, still is), an exceptionally tough task to achieve with any certainty of success.

Remember – Helix Flight's Technology has far less wastage, when alternative machines must also add tags into the plate to help create the perimeter taper; and then additional time has to be spent to re-cut the plate, adding considerable costs due to the extra time needed for the further grinding and polishing necessary to get the taper finished to the required specifications. This is known to be difficult, and costly work which is also associated with a lot of material wastage using other machines, or labour intensive ways to achieve a similar outcome... invariably, never with the quality or as accurately as a Helix Flight Forming Machine!

Helix Flight Technology enables complete versatility when creating a perimeter tapered helix, with NO limitation on the kind of shaft used: Conical, Square, Hexagonal, Stepped, etc. Helices on a Helix Flight Machine are able to be cut and formed flawlessly, with the utmost precision to fit the required shaft perfectly ...first time ...every time!

Whether the requirement is to form a 2,000mm Outer Diameter, 50mm thick blank to produce a sectional helix for a Rock Auger used in quarrying, mining or drilling; or a 300mm Diameter, 5mm thick small Auger for finer, precision use, Helix Flight forming technologies can swiftly, safely, and simply, resolve and deliver the ideal solution to almost every challenge.

Helix Flight fully-understand the complexity involved during the production of Auger Flights; with high pitch to shaft ratios, different surface type treatments, the individual needs for fitting different types of wear teeth. We have trialled and experimented with the widest variations imaginable; and continue to seek, develop and apply solutions that deliver the ideal Auger!

Fortunately, due to our constant Research & Development, Helix Flight is now the global technology lead for cold-forming heavy thickness helices for Augers. We have deliberately avoided the costs that are associated with pre-heating blanks, which includes the necessary provision of additional labour, added time, and not forgetting the ever-increasing costs of the expensive energy required to complete the job... This provides the opportunity for a considerable competitive advantage, including the special ability to form helices that are cut with a lead edge in the final form, and ready to accept teeth and other wear parts as required by the individual project.

Helix Flight Manufacturing Machines consistently remain at least one-bite ahead!

There is an ever-continuing growth in the use of Abrasion Resistant (AR) materials; and in the use of Hardox 500 HB (TUF) range of extremely hard-wearing materials; plus, others modern, futuristic materials like Creusabro 8000, and other similar types of extremely robust AR materials.

Being able to cold-form these hard materials without having to pre-heat (anneal) the material to form it into a helix is a huge advantage because it avoids causing unnecessary degradation or compound changes which affect the original (critical) material performance characteristics.

Helix Flight Manufacturing Machine's cold-forming operation and the technologies used in that process guarantee that helices produced in any chosen material, always retain the original, and vital, material performance characteristics.

Helix Flight Manufacturing Machines are used by high-volume professional manufacturers who value the integrity of the completed welded surface so readily achieved with Helix Flight's sectional helices; giving a perfectly tight, neat, fit-up to the shaft's particular design.

Screw Pile manufacturers also value being able to maximise the load capacity per pile, with the assured confidence in the integrity of the Pile; this is especially proven, when witnessed by the ease of installation.

With the capability to manufacture Flights up to 6,000mm in Outer Diameter with a pitch of up to 7,200mm the Helix Flight forming technology presents new and impressive opportunities that many other helix manufacturing machines cannot fulfil in these larger sized helices.

Helix Flight Manufacturing Machines also allow machine owners to cold-form Abrasion Resistant Plates (AR) Wear Bands, Cant Angles, Special Tapered lead sections, and with that ability comes the opportunity to access production projects that require forming of much larger sized Helices, something that the competition, with machines with lesser capabilities, simply cannot compete with!

Helix Flight Manufacturing Machines have the ability to form special, patented anchor plates with bolted patterns for the innovative and highly effective Marine Flex N-Viro Anchor.