What is a Geka Ironworker?

Geka USA has been a steel working machine manufacturer since 1919. Geka’s headquarters are located in Oiartzun, Spain, a municipality in the Basque country. With many years of experience, the Geka ironworker, or more commonly known as a punching and shearing machine, has become an industry standard famous for its durability, accuracy, precision, versitility and user-friendly operation.

Geka ironworkers may be used in your manufacturing operations for the punching and shearing of profiles, angles, and flat bars. Our range of different lines and products, varying in punching power and size, means that there’s a Geka hydraulic ironworker machine for many different metalworking tasks.

There are three main types of ironworkers: reinforcing, structural, and ornamental. While being pioneers in developing punching and shearing machines, they are constantly adjusting and improving them to meet the needs of the market and customers.

The range of different lines and products, varying in punching power and size, allows for a choice of Geka ironworker models for many different metalworking tasks. Sterling Machinery has several options of Gekas on the showroom floor. Geka’s models each have specialized uses and are strong Ironworkers that may be fitted with a wide range of Geka accessories for every punching need.  There are several GEKA models of strong, versatile and reliable hydraulic ironworkers. They all accomplish the task for punching, notching, cutting and bending profiles, steel plates, angles and bars.

Geka has three different models of one-cylinder ironworkers: the Microcrop, Minicrop, and Multicrop models. These are all to be handled by one single worker at a time and include up four stationsThe Microcrop, Minicrop, and Multicrop Geka models feature a small hydraulic cylinder and three workstations for punching, shearing flat bars, and for cutting angles.   One hydraulic includes all the same features as the Minicrop models.  It has an additional angle shearing section for cutting angles at 45” #SMPUMA55S currently on our floor now is a 60 ton brand new Geka.

The Geka HYDRACROP is the most efficient dual cylinder iron worker sold on the market today. The Geka Hydracrop 55/110 is an ironworker machine with twin operators allowing for higher speeds, higher capacity, and, with its two working areas, allowing two workers to utilizing the machine simultaneously. Like the other machines in the Hydracrop series, the ironworker includes five workstations on which different optional equipment and accessories from Geka may be mounted. #. 

The Puma Series of GEKA ironworkers consists of 5 different models with varying punching powers including die punching.  The models range in punching power from 60 to 240 US Tons with various throat depths. See our #SMPUMA55s. Geka’s Puma series. each feature a single workstation for punching flat bars and profiles. 

The Geka Bendicrop Series of hydraulic machines consists of three models: the Bendicrop 50, a single-cylinder ironworker machine, and the Bendicrop 60 and 85, Both of these models are two-cylinder machines that have the capability of being operated by two users at the same time. The Bendicrop Series of machines come fitted with six workstations for different metalworking tasks: punching, notching, shearing flat bars, angle cutting, shearing round and square bars, and an integrated bending station. The permanent integrated bending station makes these machines unique solutions in the ironworking market. The machines are also fitted with Geka’s own anti-torsion system that reduces deformation when shearing flat bars.

The PP Series of portable punching machines is one of two Geka lines of hydraulic punching machines. Gekas PP Series offers two portable punching machines, both of which have punching powers of 55 US tons and are mounted on wheels for ease of displacement, The PP Series differs from the Puma Series in that the two portable hydraulic punch press models in the PP Series are mounted on wheels, making them ideal if you require portability and ease of displacement.

Are you looking for a Geka Ironworker/punching machine?  Call us now so we can further explain the different Geka Series Ironworkers for your factory floor.

Sterling Machinery Exchange  (626) 444-0311