Glazed Tile Roll Forming Machine Manufacturers
Roman, Spanish and Japanese tile profiles in 0.3 – 0.6 mm coated steel — 828 / 1050 mm cover width, 18 – 22 stations, stone-chip capability with polyurethane guide rolls.
A glazed tile roll forming machine makes coated steel sheet look like a tiled roof. The product is sold on appearance, which is exactly why the buying decision is harder than it looks: the tile a market buys is not universal, the coating that passes an appearance rule is not the coating that runs fastest, and the cassettes that let you change between them are the most expensive thing people forget to include.
ZTRFM builds the line around 0.3 – 0.6 mm coated coil at 18 – 22 forming stations, with interchangeable cassettes for Roman, Spanish and Japanese modules and polyurethane guide rolls when stone-chip sheet is in the product range. Everything below is the specification we quote from.
What a glazed tile roll forming line produces
Each profile needs its own cassette. They run on a common base frame, so one line can carry more than one — the cassette is the decision, not the machine.
| Profile | What it is and who buys it |
|---|---|
| Roman tile | The rounder, double-curved silhouette that comes to mind when a European customer hears "tiled roof". |
| Spanish tile | The deeper S-curve profile — the one specified from Portugal across to Latin America and through much of Asia. |
| Japanese-style tile | A smaller module, which is what the market in Southeast Asian housing builds to. |
| Stone-chip coated | A textured surface that reads as concrete tile from the street — usually the reason a metal roof clears the appearance rules on a residential job. |
Machine specifications
| Material | PPGI, stone-chip coated steel, aluminium |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 0.3 – 0.6 mm |
| Effective cover width | 828 / 1050 mm |
| Profile depth | 25 – 35 mm |
| Forming speed | 10 – 15 m/min |
| Forming stations | 18 – 22 |
| Drive | Gearbox chain drive, 7.5 – 11 kW |
| Coating | PE, PVDF, HDP, stone chip |
| Cutting | Hydraulic guillotine, auto length |
| Control | PLC + touch-screen HMI |
| Certification | CE Declaration of Conformity |
| Lead time | 45 – 60 days |
| Stone-chip forming speed | 8–10 m/min with polyurethane guide rolls |
Station count, drive power and speed are given as ranges because they follow the tile profile: a deeper, more articulated silhouette takes more passes to form without marking the coating, and stone-chip sheet is deliberately run slower. The line is quoted against one of these configurations — there is no single list price.
How to choose a glazed tile machine manufacturer
Does the quote cover a line, or just a forming machine?
This is the single most common way a tile project goes over budget. A working line is the decoiler and leveling unit, the forming machine, the cassettes, the cut unit and the control cabinet. A supplier who quotes "the tile machine" at an attractive number has often left the decoiler, the guillotine and the cassettes to be bought as extras — and on a tile line the cassettes are not a small extra.
Is strip straightness treated as a specification, or as an accessory?
A tile silhouette takes more passes than a flat roofing sheet, and every extra pass magnifies whatever the strip arrived with. A tension difference that a plain profile would absorb without complaint turns into a tile whose courses will not step correctly against its neighbour on the roof. Nothing downstream can put that right, which is why the decoiler and leveler belong in the accuracy discussion rather than on the handling list.
Will they engineer the roll design from your drawing, or match a catalogue?
Tile geometry is market-specific: a Roman module, a Spanish module and a Japanese module are different cassettes, and customers in each market buy the tile they already know. A supplier who can only offer a fixed catalogue profile is not wrong, but you are then limited to the roof they already sell. Ask what happens with your drawing before you compare prices.
Do you need stone-chip capability built in?
Stone-chip sheet is the coating that lets a metal roof pass appearance rules on residential projects, and it cannot be run on a line set up only for painted coil: the chip surface marks under steel rolls and under full pressure. The line needs polyurethane guide rolls and a reduced leveling pressure, and it runs at 8–10 m/min instead of 10 – 15 m/min. If stone chip is in your plan, it belongs in the specification from the start.
How many stations are actually needed for the tile silhouette?
The line runs 18 – 22 stations, and the count follows the profile depth and complexity rather than a house standard. A deeper, more articulated tile takes more passes to form without marking the coating. When two suppliers quote the same tile at noticeably different station counts, that difference is the thing to interrogate — it is where profile quality and surface finish are decided.
What does the cut unit tell you about the rest of the line?
A tile sheet arrives at the customer with its cut edge exposed, so how that edge is made is a visible part of the product. A guillotine that trims to the module length is also a quiet indicator of how the rest of the line was thought through: whoever specified it to protect a coated edge is unlikely to have scuffed the same coating against badly set roll gaps upstream.
Profile, coating and material — what has to be decided
- Which tile module you sell
- Roman, Spanish and Japanese are three separate roll sets. The second one rides the same base frame as an extra cassette, which is why it is far cheaper than a second machine — and why leaving it out is a decision rather than an oversight.
- Whether stone chip is in your plan
- This is the coating choice that changes the machine rather than the paint: the chip surface marks under steel rolls, so it needs polyurethane guide rolls and a slower running setting.
- Cover width for your market
- 828 mm or 1050 mm. The width is what your market builds to, and it sets the coil the line is fed with.
- Profile depth
- 25–35 mm, following from the module you have already chosen rather than from preference.
- Material for the job
- PPGI and stone-chip coated steel are the norm; aluminium in 0.5–0.9 mm is chosen where the roof faces salt air.
- Economic run length
- Below roughly 500 m per colour and profile, the changeover work starts to cost more than the run is worth.
- Electrical supply
- 380 V / 50 Hz / 3-phase as standard, built to match your site otherwise.
These are the points buyers most often change, and each one is settled before the rolls are cut rather than adapted afterwards. The profile and the coating in particular decide the cassettes and the guide rolls, which are the two items that cannot be added cheaply later.
Line configuration and options
| Decoiler and leveling unit | Feeds the coil, and is also where the leveling pressure is backed off for stone-chip material. |
|---|---|
| Forming frame | 18–22 stations on a gearbox chain drive of 7.5–11 kW, running the strip through at 10–15 m/min. |
| Interchangeable cassettes | The roll sets that let one frame serve more than one module. Swapping one takes about 4 hours. |
| Polyurethane guide rolls | Fit these if stone chip is anywhere in your range — on steel rolls the chip surface marks as it passes through. |
| Guillotine with auto length | Trims to whatever length the roof module calls for, and leaves a cleaner edge on coated sheet than a shear does. |
| PLC with touch-screen HMI | The operator chooses the profile, the length and the batch instead of setting the line up by hand. |
| Runout table | Carries the finished sheets clear of the cut without marking them. |
Everything above is quoted as one package rather than as a machine with extras. That is the distinction to hold on to when two proposals are compared: on a tile line a surprisingly low figure usually means something off this list has been left out, not that the same equipment was bought better.
Glazed tile machine price — what drives it
- How many cassettes the line has to carry
- Roman, Spanish and Japanese modules each need their own cassette. A second cassette on a common base frame is far cheaper than a second line, but it is still a deliberate item in the quote.
- Whether stone-chip capability is built in
- Polyurethane guide rolls and the reduced-speed setup are the difference between a line that can run stone chip and one that cannot. It is a coating decision that changes the machinery.
- Stations and drive power
- 18–22 stations on a 7.5–11 kW gearbox chain drive, following the profile depth and how articulated the tile is. Deeper profiles take more passes.
- Whether aluminium has to be covered
- Where the roof faces salt air, aluminium in the 0.5–0.9 mm band is the usual answer. It behaves differently from coated steel under the rolls, so it calls for adjusted pressure and harder tooling — a line-level decision rather than something an operator dials in.
- Cut unit and control
- A guillotine on auto length, and a control cabinet where the operator picks the profile and the batch off a screen rather than walking the line setting it up by hand.
- Coil width and cover width
- Cover width of 828 mm or 1050 mm at a profile depth of 25–35 mm sets the coil width the line is built around, which in turn sizes the decoiler.
We quote the configuration rather than publish a number, because a line built for one painted tile profile and a line carrying three cassettes with stone-chip handling are not the same machine.
Factory, certification and lead time
ZTRFM builds cold roll forming lines for the roofing, cladding, framing, floor deck, cable containment and highway barrier markets, and every line is assembled, wired and run on our own shop floor before it is packed. The glazed tile line carries a CE Declaration of Conformity, runs on 380 V / 50 Hz / 3-phase as standard with other voltages built to your site, and lead time is 45 – 60 days. Machines ship FOB Tianjin and enquiries are answered within 24 hours.