TPT January 2018

TUBE MILLS & ROLLFORMING LINES

Photo credit: Schuler

Tube mills and rollforming lines make a natural pairing. So do rollforming lines and tube mills.

If there were such a thing as an endless list, rollformed products would be a leading candidate. Another sizable list could be compiled of the industries that would be hampered – indeed crippled – without them. Of course, the same might be said of the single pre-eminent product of a state-of-the-art tube mill. But that would be to restate the obvious.

The immediate result of considering these familiar topics in reverse order is a shift in emphasis: onto the sheer number and variety of rollformed products in the world – from guardrails and door frames to helicopter blades, conveyor systems and railway cars.