This SAFAN is a guillotine shear — also known as a plate shear — a machine designed to make straight, clean cuts across sheet metal by driving a hardened blade downward through the material. SAFAN is a well-established Dutch manufacturer specialising in sheet metal working machinery, with their shears and press brakes widely used in metal fabrication shops, steelwork contractors, and general sheet metal processing across Europe and beyond.
This used machine, located in Belgium, is equipped with a pneumatic sheet support system, which helps hold and control the workpiece during cutting to ensure accurate, consistent results and reduce operator effort. The cutting length extends to 2,500 mm, making it suitable for processing relatively wide sheet material in a single pass.
Maximum cutting capacity is 4 mm for mild steel (St 45), while stainless steel can be cut up to 2 mm thick — a standard relationship reflecting the greater resistance of stainless material. The backgauge is electrically driven with a travel of 1,000 mm, allowing the operator to set repeatable cut dimensions accurately and efficiently over a substantial depth range. Sheet holding is provided by 15 individual hold-down clamps, which distribute clamping force along the cutting length to secure the material firmly before each cut.
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