TPT May 2015

Technology News

Thermatool welding systems TOSÇELIK Profile and Sheet Ind Co, a producer of precision steel pipe in Turkey, has initiated start-up of its new tube and pipe production mills in Dilovasi, using induction welding systems manufactured, delivered and installed by Thermatool.

pipe in front of the bevel machine. They are electrically height adjustable, in order to align the pipe with the clamping system. As well as stand-alone bevel machines, Copier offers fully automatic production lines for pipe machining of metal pipe bundles (mostly in pipe mills). This means that both ends of the pipe are automatically machined by CNC-controlled bevel machines. Copier Pipe Machinery – Netherlands Fax: +31 183 44 8028 as API 5CT-5L pipes, galvanised or black water and gas pipes, natural gas pipes, heavy series mechanical tubes, industrial pipe, scaffolding pipe and normalised, polyethylene, polyurethane, epoxy, primer coated or galvanised square, rectangular, shaped and circular hollow sections. Inductotherm Heating & Welding Ltd – UK Fax: +44 1256 467224 Email: info@inductothermhw.co.uk Website: www.inductothermhw.com Tosçelik Profile and Sheet Ind Co – Turkey Fax: +90 328 826 80 09 Email: info@tosyaliholding.com.tr Website: www.toscelik.com.tr

Jon West, Thermatool sales manager, commented, “Variable frequency gives Tosçelik the ability to produce tube and pipe from several different materials, all on the same mill, wherever possible using existing weld rolls and the same basic mill set-up. We also recommended and specified two CFD dual induction/ contact welders, which provide two welding processes in one system with quick change capability.” Suhat Korkmaz of Tosçelik added, “In order to ensure our production quality we always prefer to use high technology equipment in our plants. We [have been] using various types of Thermatool heating and welding equipment in our existing tube mills for many years successfully.” Tosçelik manufactures a wide range of precision pipe specifications such

Thermatool currently has 275 solid- state welders in Turkey, and Tosçelik now has a total of nearly forty pieces of Thermatool equipment in operation. Thermatool’s range of CFI and CFD induction welders were selected and installed at the Osmaniye plant with benefits applied from the HCT (Haz Control™ Technology) welder. The units supplied to Tosçelik utilise variable frequency and dual (induction and contact) functionality built into a number of systems.

CNC metal pipe machining COPIER Pipe Machinery (formerly known as Copier Bevelmachines) engineers, purchases and constructs machinery for metal pipe finishing, including pipe bevelling, cutting, sawing, bending and grooving. All common bevels can be pre-set in the machine and can be easily repeated by the operator, who only has to enter some parameters of the steel pipe before starting bevelling or machining. The machine can perform internal, external bevel, facing, J-bevels and many more angles.

The latest technology is CNC- controlled pipe bevel machinery, where pipes are machined by mechanically cutting away material. The machine has radial and axial feeding. With this feeding system all common angles can be made without adjusting the tooling set by hand. Another advantage is that the wall thickness that can be handled is unlimited.

Recent projects include a stationary pipe bevel machine for bevelling of metal pipe elbows, and a 24" CNC- controlled machine for straight pipes. The machines are often used in combination with one of the company’s pipe roller benches, which support the

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Coolant for pipe threading FOR some pipe manufacturers, annual threading tool costs can be ten times more than the annual costs of the coolant. Quaker Chemical Corporation has addressed this issue with Quakercool ® 750 TP. compounds, formaldehyde release agents, boron, monoethanolamine or secondary amines. A major OCTG pipe producer wished to lower its operating costs while at the same time improving its threading quality and cutting insert wear.

the results were up to 30 per cent increased tool insert life used for the pipe threading operations; decreased downtime due to longer tool use; and a reduction in cost per joint. Quaker offers metalworking process fluids and coatings for each stage of the tube and pipe manufacturing process, designing fluid solutions to work with ‘front-to-back’ compatibility in mind.

Optimal for the threading process, this metalworking coolant fluid is a mineral oil-free micro-emulsion. Benefits include lubrication, short-term corrosion protection, clean rinsing, and a wide water-quality tolerance. The coolant effectively resists microbiological growth and does not contain chlorinated

Quaker worked closely with the customer to gain efficiencies on the tooling costs, which are often the most expensive part of the threading operation. After incorporating the Quakercool 750 TP metalworking coolant fluid into the threading process,

Quaker Chemical Corp – USA Email: info@quakerchem.com Website: www.quakerchem.com

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