FOCUS ON TUBE FORMING
At the Southern Manufacturing exhibition in the UK recently, Unison showcased its latest advances to the Unibend CNC, tube bending simulation software, tube scanning solutions and its tube bending application app
VLB Group offers a range of electric tubebending machines and servo-controlled tubeendformers. VLB 3D software prepares these machines for Industry 4.0 and integration into production systems with loading and unloading systems.
Companies in Voestalpine’ s Tubes & Sections Business Unit concentrate on cold-rolled tubes and sections with complex geometries, many of which are further processed, and system solutions.
WAFIOS produces CNC tube bending machines that can process tubes from 0.5mm up to 60mm in diameter. Its customised solutions include single-head / multiple-head tube bending machines, tubebending centres, tube forming machines and automated solutions. The new WAFIOS BMZ 6 is a CNC tube bending machine designed for the production of micro parts. It bends parts from tube or wire with small outer diameters of 0.5-6mm. The TWISTER ² 25 RL is a combination of robot and bending unit for the flexible handling of tubes.
Many WAFIOS CNC machines producing springs and bent wire and tube parts can now be operated with KUKA’ s EasyRobot via the machine’ s control unit. This merges the production program for the spring or the bent part with the robot program. At the Wire & Tube exhibition last year, WAFIOS exhibited machines that featured semi-assisted or fully assisted operator support, especially for setting up new parts.
Warcom is a leading Italian manufacturer
Unison hybrid, dual-stack tube bending machine.
of press brakes, shears, plasma cutting machines and fibre laser cutting machines. Its ITALO 200 tube laser cutting model makes holes, grooves and cuts on pipes with round, square and rectangular sections up to a maximum diameter of 200mm. The equipment is supplied with VIRTUO software.
The W-Power TUBE SERIES is the Warcom plasma cutting series designed to work tubes and profiles with a minimum rotational footprint of 50mm up to a maximum of 600mm and a maximum length of 12000mm. The workable sections range from standard closed profiles( such as round, square and rectangular) to varied open profiles.
XLase GmbH offers laser cutting systems for tube and sheet. The fully automatic TS65 is a system for high-performance processing of tubes and profiles. New, adaptive pneumatic
chucks with an efficient pressure feedback system and the intelligent combination of distance and height control enable short travel distances and process times. It also offers a range of hybrid laser machines that cut sheet and tube.
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Warcom’ s ITALO 200 tube laser cutting model.
VLB 127mm stainless steel exhaust pipes for the automotive industry.
ZINSER GmbH offers universal pipe cutting machines for oxyfuel or plasma cutting plus drilling for cylindrical and multi-sided pipes. ZINSER cutting machines 1304 and 1306 have been developed for pipe machining. The ZINSER 1304 is designed for cutting cylindrical pipes. The ZINSER 1306 is for cutting cylindrical and multi-sided pipes.
Zopf Biegemaschnen GmbH produces bending solutions, including conventional ringbending machines for tubes and profiles as well as semi-automatic and CNC-controlled machines. Tube bending machines, with and without mandrel, together with horizontal bending machines for bar, complete its portfolio. n
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