Tube & Pipe Fabrication
Sawing, cutting and deburring, bending, notching, slotting, piercing, drilling, welding or other fabrication of tube and pipe lengths to produce individual parts meeting desired specifications used for assembly. Common types of machinery used to perform these operations range from manual and semi-automated tube benders, end formers, tube notchers and tube cutters to fully automated laser tube cutting systems that complete multiple fabrication steps in one machine.
Bending Under Pressure – To Process Enormous Tubes
Schwarze-Robitec’s CNC 60 DB Twin booster bending machine steps up to the uncompromising specifications of a major Russian boiler manufacturer. Boilers need maximum surface area to ensure highest heat transfer – the machine handles the required narrow bending and tight tolerances.
Schwarze-Robitec’s CNC 60 DB Twin booster bending machine steps up to the uncompromising specifications of a major Russian boiler manufacturer. Boilers need maximum surface area to ensure highest heat transfer – the machine handles the required narrow bending and tight tolerances.
One of the fastest-growing sectors of North American metal manufacturing is laser processing of tubes and profiles. Design software and machines that automatically perform multiple manufacturing steps are making this complicated fabrication process cost-effective for smaller companies.
A Nevada company became a single-source supplier after installing a fiber laser tube cutter and replacing a CO2 sheet cutter with a fiber laser cutter. With a fiscal year of April to April, B&J Inc. is on track to surpass its yearly sales goal by 20%.
Disappointed with the quality and turnaround time of outsourced plating, Tube-Mac decided to bring the process in-house. Turnaround time fell more than 80%, from two weeks to two days. The manufacturer’s also no longer paying to ship components off-site for plating.
This is now a defining element in laser tube processing as shops compete within narrower pricing margins to meet product demands for improved quality and enhanced features. Here’s why.
Unison’s upgraded Unibend software creates speed improvements, reduced pause time between process movements, and other time-saving features for its Breeze tube bending machines. Customers bending significant quantities of tube – such as those in the automotive sector – stand to benefit the most.
Available in many pipe sizes, HotPurge from Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT is an inflatable, specialty system designed to address the inherent challenges of keeping mechanical properties intact. Through continuous purging, it can maintain oxygen levels below 100 ppm.
Unison’s 130-mm diameter tube bender is a robust, multiradius and multistack machine with the benefit of additional component length to give buyers an edge in the subcontractor marketplace. Users are able to achieve right-first-time manufacturing for repeat subcontract work.
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