TPT July 2015

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Cage forming for square sections THE latest generation of linear cage forming technologies has been put into operation in North Europe, at a manufacturer of high quality stainless steel tubes.

The complete, fully automatic tube mill, including surface finishing, tube end facing, unloading and packaging sections, can produce square tubes from 40 x 40mm to 120 x 120mm, and rectangular tubes from 50 x 40mm to 180 x 60mm, in a thickness range from 2 to 8mm in stainless steel austenitic, ferritic and Duplex grades. The maximum mill speed is 80m/min. The mill can produce all square and rectangular tubes within the size range, without change of any rolls in forming, welding, sizing, straightening and clamp jaws in cut off. The main advantages of the tech- nology include facility and rapidity in changing the profile dimensions; simple maintenance; and simplicity in software utilisation. The mill makes it easy to produce both square and rectangular tubes by

Linear cage forming technology

to be produced. The average time for changing tube set-up is around ten minutes.

means of computerised control, where data is stored in order to produce all the tube sizes in the range. The PLC records all the utilised data, and it is possible to create particular ‘shapes’ with different angles. From the PC it is possible to see the ‘tube flower’

Olimpia 80 Srl – Italy Email: olimpia@olimpia80.com Website: www.olimpia80.com

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