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Revolution Machine Tools has introduced the Pipe Spool Master 80. With the machine, users can program J, U, and V bevels, including C-dimension and radiused bevels and optional threading, in minutes rather than hours, the company states. The CNC machine can process complex pipe bevels on material...
Team Industries, a pipe and vessel fabricator in Kaukauna, Wis., has announced the retirement of Mike Mincks, vice president of sales and supply chain management, on his 25th anniversary with the company. Before joining the firm as estimating manager, he worked for Connex Pipe Systems Inc. in...
HGG’S new SPC 1200 RB pipe cutting and 3-D profiling machine combines the logistics of an automated roller bed for moving pipes in and out, while incorporating a floating chuck for pipe cutting accuracy, precision, and repeatability, the company reports. > The machine accommodates pipe from 3 to...
Laser tube cutting machines do more than cut a dazzling variety of features and combine processes. They also eliminate material handlings and storage of semifinished parts, making a shop run more efficiently. However, this isn’t the end of it. Maximizing return on investment means carefully analyzing the shop’s operations, reviewing all the available machine features and options, and specifying a machine accordingly.
After two lifelong friends joined forces and opened a custom auto shop, they learned what every other hot rodder learns: designing and making sheet metal assemblies is really straightforward compared to designing and making a good set of headers. Eventually they discovered header modeling system that makes designing tubular assemblies a cinch.
XL Specialized Trailers, Manchester, Iowa, sought a way to reduce the weight of one of its products, a bottom-dump trailer. It substituted conventional steel frame components for HSLA components made by Bulls Moose Tube, cutting the trailer frame’s weight by 20 percent. That’s pretty sweet.
U.K.-based Unison Ltd. has delivered an all-electric tube bender to Sharpe Products, a tube and pipe fabricator in New Berlin, Wis. This is the seventh Unison machine that Sharpe has acquired. The Breeze 3-in., CNC, multistack, 3-axis bending machine handles tubes up to 3 in. dia. It holds several...
BLM Group USA will host its biennial open house, INTUBE, at its new, 75,000-sq.-ft. facility in Novi, Mich., May 8-17. During this event the company will showcase equipment for laser tube and flat sheet cutting, tube and wire bending, end forming, end machining, and cold sawing. The theme of the...
Tube bending and end forming technology provider Addition Mfg. Technologies has expanded its production capabilities by adding a manufacturing cell for consumable bending tools at its facility in Preston, U.K. The company has installed Haas and Mazak machines to manufacture consumable tooling...
A new line of inflatable rubber plugs is available from the Pipestoppers® Division at Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT®. The plugs, which can be inflated quickly using compressed air lines, are suitable for stopping and blocking of pipes, joints, channels, and inlets. The lightweight plugs can...
Opero Energy, an affiliate of Audubon Companies and a provider of engineered module fabrication and gas processing and treating technologies, has opened a fabrication facility in Houston. The 60,000-sq.-ft. plant’s in-house capabilities include engineered modular processing facilities and...
R&B Machining Inc. has introduced a new line of all-electric tube end forming machines. The eRB80 IO+IO is the first in the line of ECOForm™ all-electric, digitally controlled, servo tube end forming machines that eliminate the use of hydraulic oil and reduce operating costs. The end former...
AdvanTec, a Vancouver, B.C.-based marine closure manufacturer and industrial pipe bender, has announced plans to open a 40,000-sq.-ft. facility in Robertsdale, Ala., creating 46 jobs during the first three years. The global firm has manufacturing facilities in Langley, B.C.; Gold Beach, Ore.;...
Unison Ltd. offers a new end facing machine for tube and pipe. The machine performs medium, high, and ultrahigh cone and thread tube end preparation on tubes from ¼ to 1-1/2 in. depending on tube size and pressure rating. The machine also offers square edge tube end prepration, plain V beveling,...
SigmaTEK has released SigmaTUBE X1.1. For customers with the Advanced NC module, the software now supports partial common-line geometries, which includes both 4- and 5-axis toolpaths. It also supports three new tube shapes: triangle, C-shape, and D-shape. Users now can import IFC files from...
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The Tube and Pipe Association focuses on the unique needs of tube and pipe producing and fabricating professionals.
Follow the link below to find a TPA member supplier near you.