TPT July 2008

T ube & P ipe M ills and R ollforming L ines

Expertise in tube rollforming, joining and assembly

Taylor-Winfield USA, specialises in the automation of applications involving material joining, forming and assembly, coil joining and induction heating. The company offers a wide range of equipment including coil joining equipment, automated assembly lines, metal forming equipment, and work handling systems. Rollforming lines are used to convert incoming flat strip into a variety of shapes and sections and in a wide range of thicknesses, widths, lengths and materials. The required shape is obtained by passing the incoming material through a series of driven profiled rolls. The rolls are set in pairs (upper and lower) and gradually form the material until the final shape/cross section is obtained. Prior to the actual forming operations, Taylor-Winfield lines can also punch holes, notch, emboss and knurl the incoming strip as necessary for assembly/fixing purposes. Corporation,

The punched holes can be supplied in any pattern and in a variety of shapes. Taylor-Winfield rollforming lines are used to manufacture a vast range of products for many diverse industries including construction, automotive, electrical, security, both white and brown goods, industrial storage, transport, and office furniture. Features of Taylor-Winfield lines include automatic entry coil loading and feed up, multiple pre-piercing and shearing with PLC and PC control, high speed flying cut-offs, cassette section roll change, auto changeover, and offline punch/welding systems. Automatic stacking with weight, wrap and bar coding facilities can also be provided for finished products. Taylor-Winfield’s tube mills operate with precut blanks fed into the machine and formed into tubular shapes. The two edges are then seamed together using welding or

passed through hourglass rolls and welded in transit. For plasma, MIG, TIG and laser welding, the edges are clamped together and the joint welded as the part remains stationary. The Taylor-Winfield Corporation – USA Fax : +1 330 448 3538 Email : sales@taylor-winfield.org Website : www.taylor-winfield.com The Taylor-Winfield Corporation – UK Fax : +44 1746769050 Email : patcook@taylor-winfield.co.uk service to optimize rollforming and assist manufacturers of welded tube. This capability is aimed at those that design and produce welded round and shaped tubes, together with open and closed sections. In the area of welded tubes, the company offers design experience to assist manufacture of products from extremely thin-walled tubes to thick walled pipeline. Somass can support the development of rollforming strategies, definition of machine layouts and also verification of rollform tools. All delivered designs from the company are proofed and verified by Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2000, the company provides complete documentation for all work. Somass – Germany  Tubes can be produced on Taylor-Winfield tube mills, which take-in precut blanks that have their two edges seamed together using welding or mechanical lockseaming Rollforming boost with roll design expertise Somass, Germany, provides a comprehensive roll design

mechanical lockseaming. The company can process a wide range of diameters, lengths and thicknesses in round, oval, asymmetrical and tapered tubes. Taylor-Winfield offers two platforms of machines. The high precision platform forms the blank around a mandrel and holds the blank in place while a rollforming carriage/weld head traverses across the top and forms a lockseam/ weld. The company’s highly flexible platform for lockseaming forms the blank in a rolling unit, feeds the rolled blank into a pulldown press and feeds the pre-edged part into seaming rolls. With automatic changeover, this machine is capable of running alternating diameter parts. The highly flexible platform for welding forms the blank in a rolling unit and feeds the blank onto a z-bar. In resistance seam welding, the rolled blank is then

 Taylor-Winfield offers expertise in rollforming lines

Fax : +49 8025 993 238 Email : info@somass.de Website : www.somass.com

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