Cuts 6 mm over 3.1 m, CNC backgauge, 16 strokes per minute — steady fit for UAE sheet shops.
You look at the frame, big, squat, painted in the usual Inanlar gray-blue. First thought, fine, another guillotine. Give it five minutes though and the picture shifts. The CNC brain sits on the left pillar, humming quietly, waiting for the next job ticket from the office computer.
I promised a snapshot, so here is the promised table. Two lines of text first, just to keep things human. The digits are bold, that is the rule, let it be bold.
| Item | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Cutting width | 3100 mm | Full stroke, no support arms needed on thin sheet |
| Mild steel limit | 6 mm | Yield strength 450 MPa max |
| Strokes per minute | 16 | Measured at 4 mm thickness |
| Backgauge travel | 1000 mm | CNC ballscrew drive |
| Main motor | 7.5 kW | IE3 rated for UAE grid |
| Hold-downs | 14 pieces | Rubber pads replaceable without tools |
See those figures, they sit in the middle of the segment, not the top, not the bottom. Yet they cover 90 % of everyday sheet jobs in Sharjah job shops, so nobody complains.
Inanlar has been around since 1967, they feed roughly 1800 shears and press brakes a year into the market, five assembly lines running west of Bursa. This guillotine alone passed through four internal revisions, each one mostly firmware tweaks and a thicker throat plate. No marketing fireworks, just steady tweaks.
Pump fires up, you hear a steady hiss, not a scream, meaning the Rexroth cartridge valves are still clean. Oil volume, about 140 L, keeps temperature below 55 °С even when the Dubai sun bakes the roof, provided the tiny chiller on the return line is not bypassed. Operators like to override it, silly habit.
Cutting angle, fixed at 1°30’, looks boring on paper, yet it is the sweet spot between twist on thin aluminium and punch load on thick stainless. Blade gap knob? Gone. Now a servo spins a lead screw, you dial the millimeters on screen, machine does the coffee-grinder sound for two seconds, done.
Short, wide, tactile buttons, no glassy nonsense. The ESA S530 control stores 2500 programs, more than most shops will ever name properly. USB on the front, RS-232 on the back, people still ask for it, no idea why.
List done. Two short sentences after. Simple, repeatable, low drama. Even the new guy from Kerala got the hang in half a shift.
Heat, sand, voltage fluctuation, all that jazz. The transformer inside has taps for 380 and 415 V, so you flip once and forget. Dust filters on the side covers trap the fine abrasive that floats in Ras Al Khaimah air, swipe them with compressed air weekly and seals live longer.
Local fabricators run roofs for solar farms, HVAC ducts, decorative facades. None of those cross 6 mm most days. They crave speed, not brute tonnage. A guillotine that hits 16 cuts per minute on 4 mm galvanised sheet fits right in the middle of that picture.
Two lines first. I talked to three supervisors last month. Their notes spill below, raw, unfiltered.
Now, perspective. What sounds mundane on LinkedIn means real uptime on a real floor. Guys keep the machine cutting instead of arguing with maintenance.
Competition? Plenty. Durma SBT, Baykal HGL, Haco HSLX. I lined them up in a mental alley, kicked the tires.
Durma throws in 8 mm capacity but drops strokes to 10. Baykal gives fancy ball-transfer tables yet costs another air freight pallet when you order spares. Haco uses a separate hydraulic tank on the back, nice for cooling, weird for footprint. Inanlar stays smack in the center, no bizarre extras, no missing basics.
Need context lines, here they are, move on.
Wrap-up sentence, you pick the poison that fits your mix of thickness, tempo, logistics.
Same chassis spawns three siblings. Model letters are straight.
| Model | Length | Capacity | Typical buyer |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNIH 6×2500 | 2500 mm | 6 mm | Rooftop duct shops |
| CNIH 6×3100 | 3100 mm | 6 mm | HVAC plus signage mix |
| CNIH 10×3100 | 3100 mm | 10 mm | Trailer chassis makers |
Two sentences after. The frame stays identical, cylinder diameter grows, pump grows by 4 kW on the ten-mil version. So spares share across the trio, neat.
Grease nipples, exactly 8 of them, all in a row behind the ram. Hit them every Friday, you are golden. Oil filter swap each 2000 cuts, takes 15 minutes. Most owners still procrastinate, then wonder why the blade return is sluggish.
The shear is not a halo product, it is a work mule. Shops that live on balcony railings, mild steel shelves, truck mudguards, they buy it because it does the cut, drinks modest power, ships in one piece inside a 40 ft container. End of story.
