FOCUS ON TUBE FORMING
Nukon’ s new design Vento Flex model to cut both sheet and tube.
Its Messer Cutting Systems Pipe and Tube Cutting System is for most Messer machines. Its pipe and tube cutting system processes square and round tube. Offline software is provided by Lantek to create CNC programs for the Messer Global Control for both vertical and bevel cutting, available in multiple machine sizes.
Messer’ s SicoMat ® is designed for high productivity and robustness: characteristics which are required particularly in shipbuilding and wind tower manufacture. With bevel cutting heads for oxyfuel cutting and plasma cutting, a wide spectrum of marking processes and the option of a sandblasting or grinding head, the SicoMat ® offers a high level of automation.
Metalix CAD / CAM Ltd. offers CNC software such as cncKad, AutoNest and MBend. As well as designing tubes, MTube allows users to import CAD files and assemblies, without requiring additional CAD software. The files can be imported as tube designs or as sheet metal parts. Tubes and assemblies can be transferred into cncKad, and sheet metal parts can be transferred into cncKad and MBend for further processing. MTube can also create bend cuts in rectangular tubes.
MVD INAN is an experienced manufacturer of press brakes, laser machines, guillotine shears, plasma machines, turret punch presses and expanded metal presses. Its plasma cutting solutions offer tube cutting options. For example, its iPlasma cutting system can also be equipped with a five-axis bevelling head, multi-plasma heads and pipecutting functionality.
Italian manufacturer, MTS, designs, builds and tests special machinery and hydraulic units for tube processing. Its dual-head tube bending machines can bend round and shaped tubes.
Nukon offers its new design Vento Flex model to cut both sheet and tube with 2kW, 3kW, 4kW and 6kW laser power options. Its NK-T125 Pipe and Profile Fiber Laser system is used to process pipes or profiles produced in different shapes and materials in various sectors. The machine is designed to work with profiles or tubes up to a maximum length of 6500mm. The NK-260 machine is suitable for pipe, square profile and rectangular profile cutting. The machine has 2kW, 3kW and 4kW power options and is available with automatic loading / unloading options.
Parmigiani Macchine SAS manufactures the PLANET Series universal section bending machines, featuring HTT rolls traction control and a wide range of tooling and accessories for bending beams, pipe rolling, half-pipe forming and rolling for special bending applications.
Transfluid‘ t cut’ chipless orbital cutting technology for tube.
Prada Nargesa SL, from Spain, has over 50 years of experience in manufacturing industrial machinery. Its MC550 and MC650 CNC pipe benders feature a Smart Predictive System in the CNC control and, it told ISMR, are“ suitable for operators with all levels of experience.”
Its new-generation CC60 and CC90 CNC non-mandrel tube and pipe benders feature touch-screen control and can bend up to 180 º curves on hollow profiles. Materials can be round, oval, square, rectangular and include a range of different metals such as steel, aluminium, stainless steel, copper etc.
Preco’ s RT1000 is designed for precision laser cutting small diameter tubes for medical devices such as surgical instruments, stents and other implantable devices.
At EuroBLECH 2024 in Hanover, Prima Power demonstrated its new 2D laser machine Platino Linear ® with Compact Server loading / unloading system. The Platino Linear 1530 2D laser machine, the new Prima Power
2D laser solution, was equipped with an 8kW fibre laser. Its 3D laser cutting portfolio includes the Laser Next 1530-2130, the Laser Next 2141 and the Rapido. Its LASERDYNE multi-axis laser processing systems can also be used for 3D cutting, welding and drilling.
Rüsch produces automatic cutting lines for bars and a plasma cutting machine with drilling / milling head for metal sheets and tubes plus sawing / drilling lines for beams. SAY-MAK MAKINE IMALAT VE DIS TIC. LTD. STI. in Turkey offers sheet metal working machines; direct-gear motorised guillotines; hydraulic and motorised platebending machines; hydraulic and motorised section and pipe bending machines; hydraulic workshop presses; hand-lever guillotines; manual folding machines and more.
Sigmanest is a global provider of end-toend CAD / CAM software solutions. With the ability to break down an entire tube assembly, its SigmaTUBE SW software supports laser and plasma cutting for tubes of any shape along with all common structural profiles.
Sommer Maschinenbau GmbH manufactures tube bending systems and 3D plasma pipe cutting systems.
Songu LASER TECHNOLOGY( JIANGSU) CO., LTD. offers a range of tube fibre laser cutting systems and laser automation.
At Global Industrie 2025 in France recently, Stargroup presented a tube bending machine from Star Technology S. r. l. Its tube benders include EvoBend, FullBend, HeavyBend and FlexiBend.
Templet offers tailor-made solutions for strip feeding lines and forming and welding systems for the production of thin-walled pipes.
Transfluid Maschinenbau GmbH, founded in 1988 in Schmallenberg, has become a global specialist in tube processing. Besides its‘ t bend’ solutions for bending tubes of 4-330mm in diameter, its machine portfolio contains‘ t form’ systems for axial or rolling tube processing,‘ t cut’ chipless orbital cutting technology for tube and‘ t motion’ automation
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