Lian Li Factory Tour: Only Ever Aluminium

Turret punch! HI-YA!

Most of a Lian Li case is made via two methods - laser cutting and turret punch press (quarter circle with X and Y). Lian Li has a couple of turret presses that use a variety of different shaped heads to pneumatically hammer shapes from an aluminium sheet to make the panels and internal parts. Aluminium is pretty soft so it's a ninja fast machine.


The punch-heads have to be entirely changed for every different panel made. Generally Lian Li makes a batch of cases a day, but its chassis can vary largely in complexity with some requiring many different panels and frequent changes. Lian Li has a few machines to spread the load though and each morning they are calibrated.