Jade engineers punch tool for Guardian Warm Roof

Jade Engineering has engineered a ‘Swiss army knife’ punch tool for the Guardian Warm Roof that’s designed to dramatically reduce fabrication time for the solid roof system.

Jade is said to have worked closely with the manufacturers of Guardian Warm Roof in order to provide a more efficient and accurate solution that would enable fabricators to replace the template and power tool system of drilling the various fixing holes for the main aluminium sections of its solid conservatory roof replacement.

The firm contacted Jade Engineering after an earlier company reportedly designed a solution that was deemed to be ‘expensive and unworkable’.

Jade’s response was to engineer a multi-tool head that may be adjusted quickly and simply to switch between the various aluminium profiles used in the Guardian Warm Roof, mounted on a single punch tool pump unit.

Thus, a single Jade unit not only replaces the cumbersome hand-prepping, but provides a single, compact punch station when other systems would require multiple units to complete the prepping requirements of the various profiles within the system. Factory space for the punch process is therefore minimised, offering further economies.

Tim Douglas, technical manager for Guardian Building Systems, the company behind the Guardian Warm Roof, said that Jade Engineering has produced an ideal solution for its fabricators: “The Jade multi-tool carries out the punching for all of the profiles in our system, using a single station.

“This in itself saves a significant outlay, with tool changes carried out quickly and simply. The process significantly improves upon the hand-marking and drilling that our fabricators used previously, improving speed of course, but also accuracy. Errors have been eradicated.”

Tim also praised Jade Engineering’s immediate grasp of Guardian Building Systems’ requirements: “Jade’s engineers understand the requirements of roof structure profile fabrication and quickly offered an ideal solution that is now working extremely well for our fabricators,” he added. “The tooling and punch stations are also superbly engineered.”