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Mills for automotive tube industry RAFTER Equipment Corporation

manufactures tube mills, pipe mills, roll forming machines, cut-off machines, and other related mill machinery. For the automotive tube industry, in particular, the company has produced several mills. A common automotive tubing application is the production of exhaust tubing. This includes lighter wall 409 stainless steel using both high-frequency induction (HFI) and laser welding techniques. Another application is fuel line tubing, which is generally formed and welded at a larger 13mm diameter and subsequently cold- stretch reduced to a final size as small as 4.76mm OD. Automotive drive shaft tubing is another application. A growing market segment is the production of direct-welded profile sections for use in auto body structures. This application generally involves the addition of pre-punched holes so that secondary operations can be eliminated. Both HFI and laser are used to weld these profiles. Rafter still manufactures its equipment solely within the USA, which allows the

Rafter’s RT-3000 drive shaft tube mill

has since provided nearly 100 tube mills and more than 400 mill accessory upgrades. Its focus is to provide robust equipment that is simple to operate and maintain. Rafter Equipment Corp – USA Fax: +1 440 572 3703 Email: sales@rafterequipment.com Website: www.rafterequipment.com

company to control the manufacturing process to ensure shorter and on-time deliveries. The company states that in many cases it can ship orders before the promised delivery date. Originally started in 1917 as a roll forming machine builder, the company was purchased, relocated, and transformed into a tube mill manufacturer in 1988. Rafter Equipment

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