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Fives cold drawing tube mill helping to unlock Mexican automotive market PRODUCTOS Especializados de

utilise either a cold saw or friction saw technology with a simple change of the saw blade. Fives and PEASA are long-term partners, having commissioned several tube mills, both for stainless steel applications and conduit tubes, over the last few years. Fives OTO SpA is located in Boretto, Reggio Emilia, Italy and is part of the construction machinery manufacturing Industry. Fives OTO SpA has 255 employees at this location. There are more than 200 companies in the Fives OTO SpA company in total. Fives www.fivesgroup.com “Companies that produce tube and pipe and roll forming products highly value the ability to get answers from our performance specialists at any time of the day or night and now we’re making that easier than ever,” said Roll-Kraft chairman and CEO Chuck Gehrisch. “Whether working at their desk or using their cell phone in the shop, quick answers to common tube and pipe and roll forming challenges are just a click away.” Now, all of Roll-Kraft’s technical arti- cles and videos, along with handy calcu- lators and informative e-books, are con- veniently housed in the new resource centre. Visitors can quickly and easily filter information by topic and content type and refine searches with keywords to locate the resources they need. Roll-Kraft www.roll-kraft.com

Acero has unveiled its new tube plant equipped with a complete OTO tube mill from Fives at its factory in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The new plant is designed to produce cold drawing tubes from high yield material destined for various applications in the automotive industry. To strengthen its position supplying the competitive automotive market, PEASA needed to guaranteed high performance with reliability to repetitiveness during the regular production, so Fives designed and supplied an OTO 606HQ mill, which is capable of processing round tubes with high yield strength (up to 900MPa) and with a diameter/thickness ratio of

The OTO tube mill from Fives

6, which us usually dedicated to the automotive industry. The mill stands out due to its high strength despite its compact design. It is also equipped with a quick change and completed with a heavy-duty cut-off. The cut-off is fitted with a patented feature to

Roll-Kraft adds extensive technical online resource centre to its tube training offering

ROLL-KRAFT, which operates in the tube and pipe and roll forming industries, has announced the addition of a comprehensive, easily accessible resource centre to its website. Roll-Kraft’s online technical resources aim to solve user’s tube and pipe and

roll forming challenges. In the past three years, the company’s growing array of technical articles have been viewed more than 100,000 times. Additionally, technical videos on Roll-Kraft’s YouTube channel have received more than 200,000 views.

Roll-Kraft prides itself on helping its customers and educating the users of the future

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