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What Are Formwork Accessories?

Formwork is a crucial element in construction projects, providing the necessary structure and support for pouring concrete and shaping it into the desired form. While the primary components of formwork are typically the formwork panels or molds themselves, there are a variety of accessories that play a pivotal role in ensuring the success and efficiency of the concrete forming process. These accessories, collectively known as formwork accessories, are essential for maintaining safety, quality, and precision in construction work. In this article, we will explore the world of formwork accessories, their types, and their significance in the construction industry.

What Is Formwork?

Formwork, in construction terminology, refers to the temporary structure used to support freshly poured concrete until it achieves its desired strength and shape. Formwork systems are designed to bear the weight of wet concrete, provide the necessary alignment and surface finish, and ensure safety during construction.

The Importance of Formwork Accessories

Formwork accessories are like the unsung heroes of construction, often working behind the scenes to ensure that the concrete structure takes shape seamlessly. These accessories enhance the efficiency and safety of the formwork process. Here are some key reasons why formwork accessories are indispensable:

Safety: Safety is a paramount concern in construction. Formwork accessories such as safety barriers, guardrails, and handrails are essential for protecting workers from potential hazards and ensuring they can work with confidence and peace of mind.

Precision: Achieving the precise dimensions and geometry of concrete structures is critical for the structural integrity and aesthetics of a building. Accessories like formwork ties and wedges help maintain accurate form alignment.

Efficiency: Formwork accessories, such as formwork release agents and vibrators, can significantly speed up the concrete pouring and curing process, reducing construction time and costs.

Quality: High-quality formwork accessories contribute to the production of smooth, durable, and visually appealing concrete surfaces. This is crucial for architectural finishes and overall project quality.

Reusability: Many formwork accessories are designed to be reusable, reducing waste and saving money on future projects. This sustainability aspect is increasingly important in today's construction industry.

Common Types of Formwork Accessories

Formwork accessories encompass a wide range of components and equipment. Here are some common types:

Formwork Ties: These are used to hold the formwork panels together and maintain the desired form. They come in various types, including formwork clamps, snap ties, and wedge bolts.

Scaffolding and Shoring: These accessories are used to support formwork at various heights and can include items such as adjustable steel props, scaffolding frames, and scaffold planks.

Formwork Hardware: Nuts, bolts, and washers play a crucial role in securing formwork components and accessories.

Formwork accessories are indispensable tools in the construction industry, contributing to the safety, precision, efficiency, and quality of concrete forming projects. These components, often overlooked but vital, ensure that concrete structures are not only structurally sound but also visually appealing. Understanding the different types of formwork accessories and their functions is essential for successful construction projects. In the ever-evolving world of construction, formwork accessories continue to play a crucial role in shaping the built environment.

Remember, the choice of formwork accessories can greatly impact the outcome of your construction project, so it's essential to select the right ones for your specific needs and adhere to safety and quality standards throughout the process.

Formwork Accessories Ultimate Guide

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Formwork Accessories are concrete form parts and elements used to build into formwork in the concrete shuttering work. They are essential components including formwork clips, formwork clamps, formwork keys, and push-pull props used to make formwork equipment in place during concrete construction.

Formwork accessories are also called concrete forming accessories, concrete formwork accessories, construction formwork accessories or shuttering accessories, etc.

Formwork Accessories Manufacturing Video

You can find how the formwork accessories are manufactured in Wellmade. In the video, Wellmade is doing the welding for the formwork clamps.

Formwork Clamp Bearing Weight Test Video

You can also find the formwork clamp accessories load capacity test in Wellmade in the following testing video.

4 Types of Formworks and Accessories

In construction, there are 4 main types of formworks:

Column Formwork and Accessories

Column formwork is a formwork used to form building columns. According to the column formwork shapes, there are round type and square type column formworks.

Column formwork components include:

• Formwork Walers(Steel or Timber)
• Formwork Plywood
• Formwork Panels
• Formwork Inside and Outside Corners

The column formwork components are fixed and connected by the column formwork accessories. You can use the following formwork accessories for your column formwork construction:

Wall Formwork And Accessories

Wall formworks are systems of shuttering materials used to form construction walls.  Wall formwork components include:

During the wall formwork construction, you need to use the following formwork accessories:

The wall formwork accessories need to be universally used in all types of wall formwork systems. Include GW 120 heavy-duty steel plywood formwork systems, Euro Form systems, Aluma and aluminium formwork systems, etc.

In the wall formwork system, forged formwork clamps are most used. It is more durable compared to the cast formwork accessories. In addition, forged formwork accessories are able to take more load from the concrete.

Slab Formwork and Accessories

Slab formworks are used to form building floors or slabs in construction concrete and shuttering. Shuttering accessories used in slab formwork include

Slab formwork accessories are able to compatible with all formwork shoring systems. Include ringlock scaffold shoring system, kwikstage scaffold shoring system, cuplock slab formwork system, quick lock slab scaffold system, adjustable steel props, etc.

If you want to support thick slabs in the concrete, you need to use heavy duty scaffold systems to take more bearing from the slab concrete. Thus you can use heavy-duty scaffold systems, like OD60mm ring lock shore systems, crab 60 scaffolding shore, shoring frames, heavy-duty post shore, etc.

No matter which type of the slab shoring system. Wellmade slab formwork accessories are able to connect them well to form the slabs.

Beam Formwork and Accessories

Beam formwork is a type of formwork used to form the building beams.  Beam formwork is always used together with slab formwork.

Beam formwork accessories include:

1. Adjustable Scaffolding Props
2. Timber, Aluminium, and Steel Formwork Beams
3. Formwork Beam Fixing Clamps
4. Fixed Forkhead and U Head
5. Film Faced Plywood

Formwork Accessories In Modular Formwork

Modular formwork is pre-fabricated formwork systems with standardized sizes of formwork components and parts. Using modular formwork reduces formwork material cutting, shaping, and forming at the project site.

There are 3 types of modular formwork systems:

1. Steel Formwork Modular System
2. Steel Ply Formwork Modular System
3. Aluminium Formwork Modular System

Formwork Accessories are able used in all of the above modular formwork systems.

Steel Formwork Accessories

Steel formwork is made from steel plates or steel structures.  The steel formwork panels' width is in a range of 100mm to 600mm.  While the length of steel formwork lengths is  600mm to mm.

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Wellmade Steel Formwork Modular System Catalogue Download

Steel formwork panels are designed with holes on 4 sides of formwork panel edges. It is always in 14mm diameter.  The steel formwork holes are used for formwork accessories connection.

Formwork U clips and form ties are the main formwork accessories for the steel modular formwork system.

Formwork u clips are always in 12mm diameter. They are used to fix between two steel formwork panels, corners and angles in the concrete forming.

Formwork form ties a set of formwork accessories of butterfly nuts, wing nuts and concrete tie rods. In order to match with the steel formwork panel holes(14mm), the form tie system is in 12mm diameters.

Steel Plywood Formwork Accessories

The steel ply formwork is the best formwork. It is integrated with steel formwork frames and plywood panels:

1. Steel ply formwork is less weight than steel formwork
2. Steel ply formwork system takes more weight from the concrete compared to aluminium formwork
3. Steel ply formwork can use more times than any other modular formwork system.

Wellmade steel ply formwork systems include GW120 large formwork systems and 63.5mm Euro Form formwork systems.

GW120 Large Formwork System and Accessories

GW 120 large formwork system is a type of German formwork steel ply formwork system. The GW120 formwork system steel frames are made of high-strength steel profiles in 120x60mm. While the GW 120 heavy dut formwork system panels are made of 18mm film-faced plywood.

GW120 Large Formwork Catalogue Download

GW 120 large steel ply formwork system includes formwork accessories:

1. Alignment clamps(universal clamp)
2. D20 dywidag tie bars(tie bolt)
3. D20 wing nut with plates(coupling nut)
4. Formwork double waler with hooks and anchor nuts(strongback)
5. Formwork Quick Acting Clamps (Wedge Lock)
6. Formwork Multi-function Clamps
7. Formwork Bracket
8. Formwork Lifting Hooks
9. Single  Push-Pull Props(Panel Struts)
10. Double(Two Level) Push Pulls (with Long and Short Props)

63.5mm Euro Form Steel Plywood Formwork System Accessories

Wellmade manufactures 63.5mm light weight euro form formwork too. It is a type of Korean steel ply formwork system. The euro form system panels and corners, angles are with rectangle holes. The euro form components are connected by euro form accessories through the rectangle edge holes.

63.5mm Euro Form Formwork System(Steel Ply Formwork) Catalogue Download

Euro form formwork accessories include:

1. Big Wedge Pins(85mm)
2. Small Wedge Pins(79mm)
3. Wedge Pins 100x5mm (For USA & Colombia)
4. Big Round Hooks
5. Small Round Hooks
6. Big Square Hooks
7. Small Square Hooks
8. Flat Ties
9. Euro Form Steel F Bar Profiles

Euro form formwork system accessories are able to be finished in black(self-finished), silver-painted, or zinc-plated. All of the euro form accessories are made from high-strength 450 steel grade steel plates.

Aluminium Formwork Accessories

Wellmade aluminium formwork is made by high-strength aluminium profiles. It is light weight that easy to handle in the concrete shutter. While the aluminium formwork panels are durable without rusty. Thus Wellmade aluminium formwork systems are required widely in all types of construction concrete forming.

Aluminium Formwork System Catalogue Download

Aluminium formwork needs its special form work accessories in assembly. Include:

• Flat Ties
• Wedge and Pin
• Wailer Clamps
• Double Walers
• Single Wailing
• Tie Rod
• Waler Plates
• Short Strut
• Double Level Brace

Materials Used for Formwork and Formwork Accessories

Materials used for formwork support and formwork system include timber(wooden), aluminum, steel, plywood, and plastic.

The material used for formwork accessories includes cast irons, drop forged steel, plastic(PVC), steel plates, steel structures, etc.

Good formwork and formwork materials required:

1. Strong enough to take the safe weight from concrete
2. Easy to form required shape in concrete forming
3. Efficient in assembly and disassembly
4. Prevent leak of the concrete cement

Steel Formwork Accessories Material

Steel formwork accessories material grades include S235, S275, S355, and S450(C45) steel.  S450 is the most durable material grade for formwork materials.  The S235 steel grade is the most common material used in steel formwork and steel formwork accessories.

Formwork and Shuttering Accessories HS Code

Formwork and formwork accessories HS codes are different according to the material (steel, aluminum or plywood, etc.) You can find the following most common formwork and accessories material HS code to be convenient for your export and import.

1. Formwork H20 & H12 Timber Beams: HS Code
2. Formwork Film Faced Plywood: HS Code
3. Steel Formwork(Scaffold): HS Code
4. Aluminum Formwork(Scaffold): HS Code
5. Scaffolding Pipe(Round Beam):

Wellmade Formwork Accessories

Wellmade is a popular formwork accessories manufacturer and supplier in China with more than 20 years of expertise. We provide a wide range of formwork accessories for your construction concrete system.

You can find a comprehensive range of formwork accessories in Wellmade including water-impermeable ­components or formwork spacer for exposed concrete, spacer plates, fixing systems, and various plastic profiles.

Formwork Anchor Nut & Wing Nut

Formwork Clamps

Formwork Form Tie & Accessories

Formwork System Panels

Formwork Concrete Tie Rods & Accessories

You can find all sizes of tie rods and dywidag bars for your formwork system in Wellmade.

Galvanized and Black Steel Type. Dywidag Heavy Duty Hot Rolled and Normal Duty Cold Rolled Tie Rods

Formwork H20 Wood Beams Accessories

Formwork Film Faced Plywood

You are able to find from Wellmade Film Faced Plywood With Black and Brown Film for Your Concrete Formwork System.

The thickness of the FilmFaced Plywood 12mm-25mm Thickness. Normal Size x , 914xmm etc

What's more, Wellmade's formwork accessories include but not limited to the following:

At Wellmade, you can find all types of formwork tie rods (D15-D22mm). You have a choice of whether concrete threaded rod or dywidag rebar.

Our concrete threaded rod is made from a 450 steel grade round bar in 145 KN strength (15/17mm size). While the Dywidag Rebar is made from hot-rolled strength type of concrete bars in 190 KN (15/17mm size).

In addition to Wellmade formwork accessories, we also offer wing nuts and anchor nuts. You can find wing nuts and anchor nuts available in drop forged and grey cast iron.

Wellmade's wing nut and anchor nut size are based on our tie rod dimensions, basically OD12mm to OD22mm.

You can find formwork wing nuts and anchor nuts accessories in Wellmade. We have wing nut with washer plate, anchor nut 2 wings, and anchor nut 3 wings.

Wellmade's formwork accessories are compatible with all formwork systems including peri formwork, dywidag system, Doka formwork, etc.

Wellmade formwork accessories are exported to England, United States, Portugal, Australia, etc. We hope to include you as part of our growing list of satisfied clients.

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Concrete Formwork Wedge Clamp Accessory

CodeItemsSizeWeightFinishing WWC-SStandard Rapid Clamp105 x 40mm 0.43KGPainted/Zinc-plated WWC-MMayo Rapid Clamp120 x 50mm 0.55KGPainted/Zinc-plate

Concrete Forms Rapid Clamps Accessories

CodeItemsSizeWeightSurfaceWRC-SStandard Rapid Clip110 x 75mm 0.41KG Painted/Zinc-platedWRC-LSuper Rapid Clip120 x 75mm0.52 KGPainted/Zinc-plated

Concrete Dywidag Hex Nut D15

 Code Items&DescriptionSize Weight SurfaceWHNmm(L) Hexagonal Nut30 x 30mm0.15KGSelf&GalWHNmm(L) Hexagonal Nut 30 x 45mm0.21KGSelf&GalWHXmm(L) Hexagonal Nut 30 x 50mm0.23KGSelf&GalWHXmm(L) Hexagonal Nut 30 x 70mm0.30KGSelf&GalWHXmm Connection Sleeve 30 x 90mm0.39KGSelf&Gal

Concrete Formwork D20 Dywidag Threaded Rod Hex Nut

CodeItems&DescriptionWeightSurfaceWHNmm Hex Lock Nut D20,0.20KGSelf|GalWHNmm Hexagonal Nut D200.23KGSelf|GalWHNmm Hexagonal Nut D200.33KGSelf|GalWHNmm Hexagonal Nut D200.46KGSelf|GalWHNmm Connection Sleeved D200.94KGSelf|Gal

Concrete Formwork Dywidag Threaded Rod Wingnut

 CodeItems&DescriptionWeightSurfaceWWND15 Tie Rod Wing Nut 01, Malleable Cast Iron, FCD 450.27-0.60KGBlack|Gal

Concrete Forms Threaded Rod Washer Plate

CodeItem&DescriptionSize(mm)WeightSurfaceWPx100mm Washer Plate100×.39KGdGalvanizedWPx110mm Washer Plate100×.47KGGalvanizedWPx120mm, Washer Plate100×.57KGGalvanizedWPx140mm, Washer Plate100×.93KGGalvanizedWPx150mm, Washer Plate100×.06KGGalvanizedWPx180mm,Washer Plate100×.53KGGalvanizedWPx200mmWasher Plate100×.15KGGalvanized

Concrete Forms Anchor Nut Dywidag

CodeItemTypesWeightSurfaceWACH12D 12mm Rebar Anchor Nut2 Wings&3 Wings0.3-0.9KGGalvanizedWACH15D 15mm Rebar Anchor Nut2 Wings&3 Wings0.4-0.65KGGalvanizedWACH20D 19mm Rebar Anchor Nut2 Wings&3 Wings0.6-0.9KGGalvanized

Concrete Formwork Combi Nut Combination Wingnut & Washer

CodeItemSizeWeightWDN115-CCast Washer Dome Nut115x115mm1.0-1.2KGWDN115-PPressed Washer Dome Nut120x120mm1.0-1.2KG

Formwork Combi Dome Nut

Code Items&DescriptionWeightFinishing WDN01 D15/17mm Dome Nut 1, Malleable Cast Iron, Zinc-plated1.25KGBlack|Zinc-plated WDN02 D15/17mm Dome Nut 2, Malleable Cast Iron, Zinc-plated 1.27KGBlack|Zinc-plated WDN03 D15/17mm Dome Nut, Malleable Cast Iron, Zinc-plated 1.32KGBlack|Zinc-plated WDN04D15/17mm Dome Nut 1, Cast Iron Wingnut
Pressed Washer Plate
Zinc-plated 1.27KGBlack|Zinc-plated

Formwork PVC Sleeves

Formwork sleeves are PVC sleeves used to fit a 15mm threaded tie bar system. Following are the formwork sleeve accessories specifications:

1. Inner Diameter: 22mm
2. Outer Diameter: 25.4mm
3. PVC Sleeve Wall Thickness: 1.7-2mm
4. Material: Smooth PVC, Rigid
5. Color: Black or Grey

Formwork sleeve lengths are customized.

Formwork PVC Cones

Formwork Cone is a PVC cone used for a 15mm threaded tie bar system too. It is going to be assembly with the formwork PVC sleeve in the concrete. Following is the formwork PVC cone accessory size and specifications:

1. Overall Length: 27mm
2. Length of Angled Section:12.0mm
3. Length of Straight Section: 15.0mm
4. Inner Diameter : 19.0mm
5. Top Outer Diameter: 21.5mm
6. Bottom Outer Diameter: 44.0mm
7. Color: Black or Grey

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