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roll versions, plus hydrostatic pipe testing machines, rotary pipe cut-off and end facing equipment material handling and other ancillary finishing equipment. With more than 3,500 global installations since 1911, Bronx/Taylor-Wilson has a worldwide team of design engineers, sales executives and support staff with offices in Asia, Europe and the US. From new or retrofit milling to finishing and complete line-integrated solutions, the company is committed to continuously improving efficiency, productivity and quality. The company created the first fully automatic, in-line pipe tester and the first straightener integrated inline with a cooling bed. Innovations include software that improves equipment performance and its patented Compass automation system (computer-aided setting system). Compass provides precise and simple machine control via a menu-driven software interface. This range includes speciality machinery designed for the finishing of long products, including heavy beams, channels, rails and angles plus equipment designed in particular for the OCTG finishing industry. Heavy duty straightening machines are available that can automatically process hot pipes and pipes with upset ends. A highly advanced partner to Bronx, Abbey International is a manufacturer of a wide range of tube mills. The mill sizes range  Bronx/Taylor-Wilson is a manufacturer of metal finishing equipment, including straightening machinery

Borsen Boru Turkey

Borsen Boru, Turkey, is a distributor of stainless steel pipes, valves and fittings, and a manufacturer of TIG welded stainless steel pipes. The company is the Turkish representative and single distributor of Ham-Let for valves and fittings, as well as Alfa-Laval for sanitary flow equipment. Since January 2006, the company has manufactured TIG welded stainless steel pipes in its own facilities, and uses manufacturing processes such as tricathode TIG welding, outside and inside bead removal, in-line bright annealing, straightening, surface finishing and tube- end deburring.

by spectrometer, surface roughness test, hardness test, tensile test, shear strength test, flattening test, flaring test, reverse bending test and hydrostatic test. Stainless steel tubes produced by Borsen have a producer test and analysis report according to EN 10204/3.1. Steel grades used include 304, 304L, 316L and SAF2205 (1.4462). The outside diameter range for pipes is 19-76.1mm, with wall thickness from 0.5-4mm, tolerance of D4/T4, and length tolerance of 3-12m. Website : www.borsenboru.com  Borsen is also a distributor of stainless steel pipes, valves and fittings

 Borsen Boru manufactures TIG welded stainless steel pipes

Bronx/Taylor-Wilson USA

Borsen Boru’s test laboratory is an important part of its quality assurance process. The company’s production line uses two eddy current systems. The first test system is used to detect defects of incomplete welding; the second is used to test whole pipe sections after the annealing process. The company is focused on continuous quality control and improvement. Some of the standard tests in its new non- destructive and destructive quality control test laboratory include chemical analysis

Bronx/Taylor-Wilson, founded in 1896, is a global leader in the manufacture of metal finishing equipment solutions. The company’s product portfolio includes bar, section, rail and profile straightening machinery. In addition to this, the name Bronx is synonymous with its tube straightening machines, both in 6 and 10

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