TPT March 2014

Industry News

Major contract for ‘largest section bending machine in the world’ secured by AMOB

fields such as automotive, petrol and offshore, aeronautics, shipyard, furniture, construction, power plants, chemical industry, steel structures and agriculture. The company also produces other machinery types, such as roll forming lines, hydraulic single- and double- action deep drawing presses, and stone processing machines. AMOB is directly based in four countries, with two factories in Portugal and commercial facilities in Russia, Brazil and Spain. A worldwide network of 71 agencies and technical centres provides customer support on a local basis.

will be transported in five trucks. The result is a machine with 20,000cm 3 section modulus and the capacity to bend up to 440x440mm bar as well as HEB1000 with residual material waste. AMOB’s CEO commented, “Whereas press forming of these work pieces takes around nine hours, our customers require an average of only 12 minutes for one bend. In 53 years of experience we have been developing and producing cold bending machines designed especially for heavy duty applications; this was one more step forward in our continuous progress.” AMOB provides a specialised range for tube and pipe bending, section bending and swaging, from simple manual equipment to complex and easy-to- operate CNC solutions, covering market

AMOB, Portugal, has secured and executed a major contract for what it describes as the largest section bending machine in the world. The machine was developed for one of the world’s largest companies in fields such as cement, mining, oil, gas and petrochemical. AMOB’s scope of work in this contract included design, manufacture, supply, installation and maintenance, as well as engineering consultancy targeting reduced cycle times and providing accurate and repeated bends of large mild steel profiles with tight plane and radius tolerances. The gigantic machine was designed and built in AMOB’s recently renewed 16,000m 2 production facilities in Portugal. It includes a 175-ton frame, 540mm shafts and 238kW installed power, and

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