Automatic Cage Welding System
High-Efficiency Automated Cage Production: Fully automatic CNC control enables fast, continuous welding with 3–4× manual productivity while reducing labor and material consumption.
Stable Resistance Welding Quality: DC resistance welding delivers uniform, high-strength joints with ≤5% strength loss, ensuring reliable cage performance and minimal spatter.
Flexible Multi-Specification Capability: Compatible with square and round pipe piles and multiple bar sizes, supporting precise preset pitch and length for diverse production needs.
Machine Overview
The Pipe Pile Rebar Cage Welding Machine is a fully automated industrial solution developed for producing high-strength reinforcement cages used in concrete pipe piles. It combines fast forming capability with very low welding strength reduction, supported by a well-engineered mechanical structure that simplifies upkeep. With integrated variable-frequency control and an intuitive human-machine interface, the system maintains stable, long-duration high-speed operation while consistently delivering high-quality cages.
Power System Options
Adopts medium-frequency inverter technology to cut energy consumption by over 30%, while ensuring steadier welding current and uniform joint quality — making it well suited for precision-driven, high-volume pipe pile manufacturing.
Power-frequency version:
Utilizes a conventional industrial transformer known for mature reliability, low failure rates, and easy servicing. It offers excellent cost efficiency for medium and small production operations.
Key Advantages
Core resistance welding technology with DC heating provides rapid thermal response, clean weld formation without spatter, and strength loss within 5%, exceeding traditional welding performance.
Fully automated CNC control integrates PLC programming and variable-frequency speed regulation to achieve precise preset spiral pitch and cage length with minimal deviation.
High productivity lowers labor demand and material waste — welding speeds reach up to 3000 mm/min, delivering 3–4 times the efficiency of manual fabrication. Spiral bars require no overlap, saving about 1.5% in materials, and operation can be handled by a small team.
Built for reliability and operator convenience, the machine features intelligent fault alerts, touchscreen controls, quick training requirements, and dependable 24-hour continuous production capability.
Supports a wide range of rebar sizes, allowing processing of different longitudinal and ring bar diameters to satisfy diverse pipe pile production needs.
Typical Applications
Pipe pile manufacturers — standardized fabrication of reinforcement cages for precast square and round piles.
Infrastructure precast facilities — production of cages for bridges, railways, highways, ports, and marine foundations.
Building construction — foundation pile cages for residential, industrial, and commercial projects.
Municipal engineering — road construction, underground utilities, and wastewater infrastructure.
Professional piling contractors — efficient near-site cage prefabrication.
Hydraulic engineering — reservoirs, embankments, and river regulation works.
This equipment serves as a high-efficiency, standardized solution for pipe pile reinforcement cage manufacturing in modern infrastructure prefabrication.
Machine Structure
The Pipe Pile Rebar Cage Welding Machine is constructed around a coordinated system that includes the head assembly, tail frame, moving carriage, steel bar support platform, and electrical control cabinet. Together, these components enable accurate automated cage fabrication with stable and dependable operation.
| Component | Description | Notes |
Steel bar support table | Holds steel bars | Fabricated locally |
Welding drum | Mounts copper rings of equal diameter | Must be insulated from frame |
Welding mechanism | Press-welds spiral bars onto main bars | — |
Wire feeder | Feeds spiral reinforcement | Avoid overloading feeder reel |
Machine base | Structural mounting frame | Must remain insulated from tail frame |
Carriage | Pulls and advances main bars | — |
Tail frame | Guide rail support for carriage | — |
Technical Parameters
| Item | Specification |
Cage diameter | Ø300 / Ø400 / Ø500 / Ø600 mm |
Cage length | 7–15 m (extendable to 45 m) |
Number of longitudinal bars | 6, 7, 10, or customized |
Longitudinal bar diameter | Ø7.1 / Ø9.0 / Ø10.7 mm |
Spiral bar diameter | Ø4–Ø6 mm |
Spiral pitch | 0–100 mm |
Traction speed | Max 7500 mm/min |
Drive power | 8.4 kW |
Welding power | 300 kVA |
Main rotation speed | 0–80 rpm |
Welding method | Resistance welding |
Control mode | Automatic |
Welding material | Steel with carbon content <0.20% |
Strength loss at weld | ≤5% |
Weld tensile/shear strength | ≥200 kg |
Transformer cooling | Air/self cooling |
Power supply | 380V ±5%, 50 Hz |
Ambient temperature | −5°C to +35°C |
Relative humidity | <85% |
Machine weight | ≈5 tons |



