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Straightening & Finishing
BRONX/TAYLOR-WILSON, West Midlands,
UK and North Canton, Ohio, USA, has
recently secured a number of orders for its
precision, CNC computer-controlled, 10-roll
tube straightening installations. The new
Bronx machines are at the forefront of
technological advances and employ the very
latest mechanical and electronic features.
These features offer the end user the
confidence of processing their tubular
products to the highest possible quality
standards in the most efficient manner
possible. Additionally, they provide the
benefit of consistent straightness, ovality and
throughput without the issues of marking or
adversely altering the mechanical properties
of the product. These installations have been
supplied with complete product handling
and automatic process mode sequencing
to ensure the efficiency of the system is the
highest available in the marketplace.
The straightening installations are all
controlled by Bronx/Taylor-Wilson’s patented
“COMPASS” Computer Aided Setting
System, which utilises the latest in industrial
electrical and electronic technology.
The COMPASS System provides the
customer with not only a consistently high
quality product and throughput capacity, but
also with the added benefit that machine
set up times for a size change have now
been reduced to less than three minutes.
The data collection and storage of the Bronx
COMPASS System is becoming increasingly
vital to the tube and pipe process. It allows the
manufacturer to supply a “passport” of data
with each batch of tubes, which is becoming
imperative to the end user when processing
such sensitive and critical components as
these customers produce. The systems
provided by Bronx/Taylor-Wilson integrate
seamlessly with the quality management
systems employed by the customers. This
guarantees that all production processes
are controlled ensuring that all materials
are traceable and only the highest quality
materials are delivered to their customer.
Bronx continues to design bespoke
machines renowned for high quality,
robustness, user friendliness and low
demand maintenance for every customer.
This is the reason, says Bronx/Taylor-
Wilson, that it is considered to be one
of the most reliable and trustworthy tube
straightening specialists in the marketplace.
Some of the world’s leading tube producers
have entrusted Bronx/Taylor-Wilson to finish
their high value products for over 70 years.
Bronx/Taylor-Wilson added that it is proud
to offer the highest possible level of quality
and precision.
Straightening manufacturing giant seals global deals
Two machines will be supplied as part of
a new, fully automated finishing line for the
latest tube production facility for a customer in
Russia. The customer is the biggest producer
of heavy wall oil country tubular goods: drill
pipes, casing pipes, oil-well tubing, oil-and-
gas pipes as well as rustproof, rolled-up
soldered tubes, seamless hot rolled and
cold-worked and non-corrosive pipes. The
customer’s products are delivered to all oil
and gas production associations, to industrial
plants, the energy industry, the construction
industry and public works companies. The
pipes are produced in compliance with global
standards.
The straightening machines are part of
a finishing line which is at the forefront of
modern technology and automation, the
most modern of its type in any CIS tube
making facility. This equipment will process
cold drawn steel tube and has been designed
to accommodate a particularly broad range
of tubes, and Bronx/Taylor-Wilson’s 10-roll
design can straighten to the most stringent
of tolerances at high speeds.
The Bronx/Taylor-Wilson 10CR6machine
for Russia has the following capacity for this
particular installation:
• Diameter range of 25 to 123mm
• Maximum wall thickness is 15mm
• Yield strength can be up to 700 MPa
• Tube length range from 2.4m to 8m
• Pipe temperatures range between 5
to 50°C
The 10CR1/2 machine for Russia has
the following capacity for this particular
installation:
• Diameter range of 5 to 15mm
• Wall thickness range up from 0mm
• Maximum yield strength of 700 MPa
• Tube length range from 1m to 6m
• Pipe temperatures between 5 to 50°C.
In addition the customer required a
new straightening machine to obtain the
optimal straightness and ovality with CNC
COMPASS setting and pressure sensing
load sensing control. It is imperative with
this customer’s type of product that all
straightening process data is retained to be
issued with the end product.
Bronx/Taylor-Wilson has also seen a
substantial boom in business and interest
in its specialised 10-roll machines for
straightening and rounding up of stainless
steel and inconel tubes for use in the steam
generator/nuclear industry. An example of
this is the supply of equipment to a customer
in mainland Europe, which will straighten
and process Inconel tube with an outside
diameter ranging from 12mm to 60mm, and
wall thickness up to 8mm. The customer
is a leading producer of speciality tubular
products made of stainless steel and nickel
alloys exclusively for nuclear power stations
using the pressurised water technology.
This range of end products covers various
needs, often in small quantities, requiring the
intervention of a wide variety of techniques.
The products concerned are customised
nickel alloy and stainless steel tubulars with
particularly demanding specifications and a
nuclear quality follow up.
The 10CR5 machine has the following
capacity for this particular installation:
• Diameter range of 15 to 60mm,
maximum wall thickness is 8mm
The 10CR3 machine has the following
capacity for this particular installation:
• Diameter range of 12 to 26mm,
maximum wall thickness is 3mm.
Bronx/Taylor-Wilson – USA
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Bronx/Taylor-Wilson’s 10.CR.3 series cross-roll tube straightener