Repkon, a Turkish provider of turn-key production plants for the metal forming sector, also designs, manufactures and supplies metal forming machines to the global market. The company is now focusing on producing short-, medium- and long-range rocket bodies, in particular those with a diameter of 610 millimeters (mm), set to be on display at the Paris Air Show, Ugur Cem Gurpinar, business development manager at Repkon Machine and Tool Industry and Trade, told AIN.

“Repkon stands out in the sector with its critical flow-forming technology, which is very rare in the world for…rotational symmetrical parts,” he said.

At the show, Repkon (Hall 6 Stand A77) will also demonstrate its aerospace industry products, such as turbine and motor hollow shafts for drive and transmission tubes, which are durable at high temperatures, as well as control rods using its swaging technology (a term often denoting extrusion work or radial forging).

“Built upon over four decades of metal-forming experience, Repkon offers high-precision manufacturing alternatives through advanced in-house capabilities in strategic technologies, such as flowforming, cold swaging, shear forming, hot spinning, forging and ex-proof presses, not only for defence and military [use], but also for the civil sector, including liquefied petroleum gas or compressed natural gas production, the automotive industry, oil and gas, and petrochemicals and mining,” he said.

Repkon’s innovation, patented under the name of "Free Flowforming," enables the manufacture of parts that previously could not be made using orthodox technologies. “In comparison with conventional… technologies, Free Flowforming provides significant increases in forming speed and allows the production of parts with enhanced accuracy for both thin- or thick-walled components,” he said. “This development is important for global industries and provides a benchmark for manufacturing new parts.”

The company also offers indigenous solutions for calibrated small-barrel production. Under the coordination and guidance of government body, the Presidency of Defense Industries, Repkon managed to put the rifle barrel of a 40mm calibrated grenade launcher into use.

For the last couple of years, Repkon’s rotary cold-forging machines have produced tubes with profiled inner sections, manufactured in a single-pass operation for small-caliber rifle, automatic machine gun, and handgun barrels. For medium- and large-caliber barrels, Repkon Flowforming machines produce tubes with profiled inner sections for gun barrels and medium- and long-range missile bodies.