Abstract: The assembly line for producing a steel coffer (2) for ceiling and/or wall structures, in particular for interior finishing and construction of ships, for transportable and movable buildings, for sheds, hotels and the like, from a sheet metal plate (1) comprises a cutting and/or stamping station (3), a bending press (4) with an associated manipulator (5) and an associated roller-ball table (6) and a welding station (7), as well as at least one trolley (8) in the form of an underfloor vehicle, an underfloor trolley, or the like, which can move back and forth under these stations (3, 5, 7). The bending press (4) is combined with a manipulator (5) designed as a semi-portal crane, which is movable with respect to this press (4) and has a gripper which is also movable, adjustable in height and rotatable around the height axis, by means of which the sheet metal plate (1) is fed in its required positions to the bending press (4).

Abstract: The steel coffer is provided in the form of a box-like coffer element (1) of great load-bearing capacity, having a wall (2), flat per se, and a circumferential, multiply-folded edge section (3), which has stiffening sections (4) fastened underneath the coffer wall (2), has perforations (5) and connecting holes (6) in the circumferential edge section (3) and has, in the corners, notches (7) for folding the edge sections (3) and for insertion of the supports (8).