Samco Machinery

Name

Samco Machinery

Legal name

SAMCO MACHINERY LIMITED

Website

https://samco-machinery.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Rollforming Equipment Manufacturing

NAICS

Rolling Mill and Other Metalworking Machinery Manufacturing (333519), Machine Tool Manufacturing (333517)

SIC

Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery) (3550)

akta.pro primary industry

Metal Forming & Fabrication Machines (Presses, Bending, Shearing, Stamping) (IMAHADAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Wrapping & Bundling Equipment (Shrink/Stretch) (IMAHAOAD)

Keywords

• Roll forming machines
• Coil processing equipment
• Material handling systems
• Custom metal fabrication
• Metal forming machinery

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Rollforming Equipment Sales: Sale of custom rollforming machines, uncoilers, coil cars, flatteners, roll form dies, rollformers, presses, and material handling systems. Equipment is custom-designed and engineered-to-order.
2. Custom Rollforming Services: In-house custom rollforming services for both high production and special project needs. Supports customers from initial tooling design and development to in-house tooling construction to production launch.
3. Fabrication Services: Precision metal fabrication including laser cutting, forming, punching, certified structural welding, robotic weld cells, CNC machining, boring, grinding, and painting services.
4. Parts & Accessories: Spare parts, roll tooling, electrical controls, material handling components, bundlers, nesters, stackers, and press components.
5. Field Service & Support: On-site service, preventative maintenance programs, on-site start-up and commissioning. Field service rates: Weekdays $100/hr, Weekends $150/hr plus travel time.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Samco Machinery designs, engineers, and manufactures custom rollforming machines and coil processing equipment, together with integrated material handling systems (uncoilers, coil cars, flatteners, stackers, nesters, bundlers) and roll tooling. The company also operates in-house custom rollforming services and a precision metal fabrication division, providing complete turnkey production lines for industries such as automotive, building and construction, solar, garage doors, grain bins, window wells, and highway guardrails.

Product overview

Samco Machinery is a global rollforming equipment manufacturer offering a comprehensive portfolio of machinery and services centered on metal roll forming technology. The core product line includes rollforming machines, uncoilers, roll tooling, presses, and material handling solutions that work together as integrated production systems. Key branded products include Purlinmaster™ for purlin profiles, Studmaker™ for stud production, and Workhorse™ Series for cost-effective rollforming. The company serves diverse industries including automotive, building & construction, metal roofing, transportation, solar, grain bin, garage doors, HVAC, and electrical distribution through both equipment sales and custom rollforming services. A full-service fabrication division complements the core offerings with precision metal fabrication capabilities including laser cutting, welding, and CNC machining. The product architecture is modular and customizable, allowing customers to select specific equipment components and automation levels based on their production requirements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Purlinmaster™: High-speed, dependable, and flexible rollforming machine for U-Channel, Lipped Channel, Sigma Purlins, and Z-shaped profiles
• Studmaker™
• Workhorse™ Series
• Workhorse IRONCLAD™
• Greenfield™

Products and services

• Rollforming Machines Custom rollforming machines that bend and shape metal profiles through a series of rollers, configured for different industry profile applications.
• Uncoilers Equipment for unwinding metal coils and feeding material into rollforming lines, including decoilers, uncoiler/coil car combinations, and hold-downs.
• Roll Tooling Precision custom roll dies and tooling for specific profile requirements, designed and manufactured in-house for rollforming applications.
• Presses Full line of rollforming presses including mechanical, hydraulic, air, and rotary presses designed and installed by Samco since 1972.
• Material Handling Solutions Automated upstream and downstream material handling systems for rollforming lines including coil cars, flatteners, accumulators, end shear welders, pick-and-place systems, nesters, stackers, bundlers, and master bundlers that offer labor savings and increased safety.
• Purlinmaster™ High-speed, flexible rollforming machine for U-Channel, Lipped Channel, Sigma Purlins, and Z-shaped (CEE and ZEE) profiles, featuring rapid change rollformer for flange height changes in minutes and web width changes from 4 to 16 inches at line speeds of 180 fpm.
• Studmaker™ Rollformer Versatile rollformer enabling 24-hour custom stud service with electro-mechanical adjustment for stud and track widths and flange heights across multiple gauges, with changeover in under 20 minutes.
• Workhorse™ Series Rollformers Affordable Workhorse Series rollformers combining Samco quality with essential features, including the Workhorse Ironclad Panel Roll Former and Stud & Track Workhorse Roll Former.
• Coil Processing Equipment Strip and flat rolled steel processing equipment including cut-to-length lines (400 fpm max), blanking lines (60 pieces per minute), and slitting lines (up to 1500 fpm, 100 inch max width, 60,000 lbs coil weight capacity).
• Automotive Roll Forming Machines Rollforming equipment for the automotive industry serving Tier 1 customers, with capabilities for structural underbody parts, heavy gauge chassis components, door sash, window channels, seat tracks, bumpers, side impact beams, structural cross members, and in-line pre-punching, welding, and flying cut-off systems.
• Garage Door Roll Forming Machines Complete roll forming lines for the garage door industry including panels, insulated garage doors, and track, with uncoilers, day tanks, polyurethane dosing units, and double belt conveying systems. Customers include Windsor Doors, Raynor, Ridge Doors, and Wayne Dalton.
• Panel Rollforming Lines Rollforming machines for roof tile panels, low and high trapezoidal panels, wall cassette profiles, cladding profiles, and insulated panels, including the Workhorse IRONCLAD panel rollformer.
• Solar Racking Solutions Solar manufacturing equipment for PV mounting systems including framing, sub-assemblies, ground posts, and structural rollform shapes for ground-mount fixed/tilt tables, roof-top ballasted systems, and custom applications.
• Guardrail Roll Forming Machines Rollforming machines for highway safety products including 2-space W beam guardrails, corrugated steel beams, signposts, and highway barriers, with integrated decoiler/uncoiler, flattener, material feed, punch anywhere, tension control, automatic shear, and electrical control systems.
• Grain Bin Rollforming Solutions Equipment for grain bin and grain storage sidewall production with auto adjustable system for different radii (15 to 108 feet) and thicknesses (0.029 to 0.168 inches), supporting robotic pick-and-place and automated strapping.
• Window Well Rollforming Equipment Custom window well rollforming equipment that bends and curves window well profiles with projection of 24, 30, and 36 inches, widths of 12 to 61 3/8 inches, and panel lengths from 79 to 144 inches, handling material up to 0.061 inch thick at 45 KSI yield strength.
• Metal Framing Equipment Rollforming equipment for stud and track, panel, and accessories in metal framing applications for the building and construction market.
• Electrical Distribution Equipment Rollformers for cable trays and strut framing channels used in electrical, utilities, and air handling duct installations, producing solid, punched, half-slot, and slotted channel patterns.
• HVAC Rollformers Customized rollformers producing metal framing required for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems providing thermal comfort and indoor air quality.
• Master Bundlers, Stud Nesters, Panel Stackers, and Rotary Presses Automated parts and accessories including master bundlers (up to 450 fpm), stud nesters, panel stackers, and rotary presses/in-line continuous punching and lancing units for light gauge applications.
• Custom Rollforming Services In-house custom rollforming for high production and special project needs, with vertical integration from tooling design and development through in-house tooling construction to production launch, including Copra FEA virtual testing and project management.
• Fabrication Solutions Precision metal fabrication services in an ISO 9001- and CWB-certified 164,000 sq ft facility, including product design, laser cutting, forming, punching, certified structural welding, robotic weld cells, CNC machining, boring, grinding, and in-house painting.
• Field Service and Preventative Maintenance On-site field service, preventative maintenance programs, on-site start-up, and commissioning, including line layout drawings, engineered product drawings, precision alignment, and installation support worldwide. Field service rates: Weekdays $100.00 USD/hr, Weekends $150.00 USD/hr (8-hour minimum), $75/hr travel time plus expenses.

Quantifiable outcome

• Production increased by 40% with automated count and stacking mechanism
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Kent Corporation (Mexico)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 22 May 2020Commercial Representation and Services of Kent Mexico and Samco Machinery Ltd. in Mexico. Kent Corporation serves as the commercial representative and service provider for Samco Machinery in Mexico, providing local support and representation for Mexican customers.
• Metalforming Technology SAminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorInternational associate representing Samco interests in Africa. Provides commercial representation and services in the African market.
• VaptechminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorInternational associate representing Samco interests in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria). Provides commercial representation and services in the Eastern European market.
• RoyalTPminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorInternational associate representing Samco interests in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Canada office). Provides commercial representation and services.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Formtek Group: Formtek Group is a U.S. roll-forming equipment conglomerate (parent of Yoder, Lockformer, B+K, Tishken, etc.) that designs and builds engineered roll forming and coil processing lines — the most direct North American competitor to Samco across automotive, construction and HVAC applications.
• The Bradbury Group: Bradbury Group is a Kansas-based manufacturer of engineered roll forming lines and coil processing equipment (cut-to-length, slitting). It directly competes with Samco for engineered-to-order roll forming projects, particularly in metal building and garage door segments.
• Gasparini Industries: Italian roll forming equipment manufacturer serving global automotive and construction customers with engineered-to-order lines. Gasparini is a direct international peer competing for multinational roll forming programs similar to Samco's Magna and other Tier 1 contracts.
• Custom Roll Forming Machinery: U.S.-based custom roll forming equipment manufacturer building engineered lines and material handling systems for metal building, automotive and OEM customers. It directly overlaps Samco's engineered-to-order roll forming equipment offerings.
• Dannenberg: German roll forming equipment maker specializing in engineered roll forming lines for automotive and industrial customers. Serves as an international direct peer competing for global roll forming opportunities where Samco also sells.

Broad incumbents

• BHS Sonthofen: BHS Sonthofen is a broader German industrial machinery platform with roll forming and material handling capabilities as part of a wider portfolio. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps with parts of Samco's engineered metal-forming equipment offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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