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emissions and reducing noise emissions by as much as 50 per cent. The system also achieves a major reduction in the amount of hydraulic maintenance required, while the smaller hydraulic reservoir uses 65 per cent less oil. The key advantage of the SIO concept lies in overcoming one of the traditional limitations of a conventional sizing machine with its internal fingers going inside the tube and expanding past the elastic limit, and external fingers going outside to reduce the diameter to the required size. A conventional machine is limited in the range of expansion/ reduction that any set of fingers can handle, which means that the tooling needs to be constantly changed and reset to handle a range of tubes. The SIO machine, however, provides six sets of tools in one machine, removing the need for changeovers to meet production requirements. As the market climbs out of recession, the fortunes of AddisonMckee have taken a turn for the better, and in response to demand from its European customers the company has restored the manufacturing facility at its UK headquarters in Lancashire.

ADDISONMCKEE, a designer, manu- facturer and supplier of tube bending and end-forming technologies, has been commissioned to build an innovative SIO end-forming machine by US-based Eastern Catalytic, a manufacturer of catalytic converters, manifold converters and converter components for the aftermarket and original equipment manufacturers. At the heart of the design is AddisonMckee’s ‘Hydra Green’ technology, designed to allow the latest end-forming equipment to take advantage of hydraulic power without the constant noise, heat and energy usage associated with traditional hydraulic power units. While traditional hydraulic systems for end-forming machines use an AC motor continuously driving a hydraulic pump, even when the machine is not in use and no oil pressure and/or flow is required, AddisonMckee’s new technology is designed so that the pump is in operation only when there is a demand for pressure/flow. The company claims that Hydra Green delivers a number of key benefits over a traditional hydraulic circuit in terms of using 50 per cent less electricity due to the significantly reduced duty cycle of the hydraulic pump, minimising heat

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