TPi March 2018

16-20 April 2018

Stainless steel tubing supply UKF Stainless Ltd has been a stainless steel specialist and supplier of stainless steel tubing since 1992. The family- run business offers a wide variety of products from stock, alongside additional services including cutting, perforating and polishing stainless steel, enabling it to tailor finished products to suit individual needs. The company has long-term online tracking facility that enables it to pinpoint any of its vehicles at any time, allowing accurate delivery times when goods are in transit. The company, which has been exhibiting at Tube Düsseldorf since 1996, states that it holds one of the UK’s most complete stocks of welded stainless steel tube and pipe, as well as bars, sections, sheet and plate, with additional products also supplied on quick lead times, if required.

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architectural, general engineering fabrication, agriculture, sanitary, marine and petrochemical. Its stocks of perforated tubing are used in a wide range of applications/ industries, such as filtration systems, aerospace, aviation, paper and pulp, and oil, gas and petrochemical, as well as architectural applications. Together with its group companies The Joint Perforating Co Ltd, Ferrari Stainless & Alloys Ltd, and Stainless Metals & Alloys Ltd, the company will be showcasing its range of products and services at Tube 2018, which will include the products that are achievable on the newly acquired LT5 tube laser.

partnerships with key manufacturers, and is accredited to BSEN ISO 9001: 2000, having originally been certified in 1999. UKF’s modern premises maintain a high level of stock, ensuring customer orders can be met and delivered to schedule – its warehouse and manufacturing space has the ability to store up to 2,000 bundles. The company operates its own delivery fleet, and offers an

UKF supplies both first- and second- tier original equipment manufacturers in the automotive sector, and also supplies fuel rails and fuel fillers to some of the largest vehicle manufacturers in the world. Stainless steel is also supplied for many non-automotive applications, including

UKF Stainless Ltd – UK info@ukfstainless.co.uk www.ukfstainless.co.uk

90 years of expertise in precision Poppe + Potthoff has been supplying solutions for tube and metal processing since 1928. At Tube 2018 it will present its capabilities in precision steel tubes, high-pressure components, testing equipment and special machinery. suitable properties to meet specific requirements. Poppe + Potthoff produces in narrow tolerances up to group h8/H9 and h9/H8, with the physical and mechanical properties being adjusted to the application.

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variable thickness or double walls). The products are supplied in the required annealing condition, in manufactured lengths from 4 to 7m or coiled lengths of up to 350m. New product designs built on tubular components are engineered and validated for customers at the group’s technology centre. To ensure seamless reproducibility, prototypes are manufactured, refined and tested on the same equipment as used for serial production at the facilities in Werther, Germany, and Ajka, Hungary. Special machines for autofrettage, automatic quality control and assembly as well as density, functionality and endurance testing are developed by Poppe + Potthoff Maschinenbau. The expert for high-pressure applications and testing equipment ensures that components (valves, and hollow parts made of metal or plastic) and systems (hydraulic, pneumatic and fuel injection) provide reliability and safety. Poppe + Potthoff GmbH – Germany

The company processes more than 50 different structural steel alloys, case- hardening steels, heat treatable steels and special steels. These include the proprietary high-strength steels PP600, PP1000 and PP1100 for high-pressure applications such as hydraulic aggregates,

Steel tubes, seamless or welded cold drawn, are suitable for a variety of applications. The choice of the appropriate material and design as well as high-precision processing and finishing make it a component with

common rails and injection lines for liquid and gaseous fuels (diesel, gasoline and LNG) at up to 3,000 bar and beyond. The tubes can be designed in a variety of shapes, either round or profiled (three- to eight-sided profile, elliptical and flat oval tubes, round exterior profile, multi-sided interior, round interior profile, multi-sided exterior, tooth profiles, tubes with

info@poppe-potthoff.com www.poppe-potthoff.com

Poppe + Potthoff manufactures precision steel tubes in various materials, shapes and dimensions

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