TPi November 2017

products & developments

Tubacex expands stock and service model The Tubacex Group, a supplier of seamless stainless steel, high-nickel alloy and nickel super-alloy tubular products, is facing a challenging phase, boosting its service though a specific division with a constantly growing product and service portfolio. Tubacex Advanced Solutions is an opportunity to group all the services and added-value solutions the company is mainly offering through TSS (Tubacex Service Solutions), its own master distributor able to provide immediate product availability and a wide range of services upon request. new products, the group is also working on product treatments in collaboration with Tubacex Innovation Area.

to programming. SigmaTube X1 also offers a Single Pierce Open Section Toolpath for channel and angle profiles. This option interpolates cuts on sharp corners, allowing a single toolpath to be used for the end cuts. This provides a single cut rather than multiple passes, decreasing cut times. SigmaTube product manager Dakota Baird commented, “Our SigmaTube customers drive the direction of our product and we are committed to providing users with the best possible solution for their needs.” SigmaTek Systems, LLC – USA As an example, Tubacex is developing customised solutions based on tubular advance coatings through subsidiary company Tubacoat. The ceramic coat- ing products provide corrosion resist- ance in different media and thermal conditions, high abrasion resistance, anti-adherent andanti-foulingproperties, and improved mechanical hardness, offering efficient and environment- friendly solutions, and increasing the service life of critical components. Tubacex also offers shot peening services to improve the oxidation resistance of materials under critical application service conditions. Regarding the stock offer, TSS is able to provide 16" OD tubes and fittings, which cover the needs of the distribution market, and bars and billets from R165 to R500 for the oil and gas, petrochemical and power generation sectors, among others. The synergies created with the manufacturing mills allow TSS to request small orders to be added to larger production series. Tubacex SA – Spain tss@tubacex.com www.tubacex.com

The new Tubacex Advanced Solutions division integrates the company’s global network of stock and service centres in Spain, France, Central Europe, USA, Brazil, the Middle East, Iran and India, and all Tubacex companies orientated to added-value services. Tubacex supplies stainless steel products

Depending on the region, the extensive portfolio of services includes cutting, colour coding, bevelling, welding, special markings, polishing, cutting, and third-party inspections or NDT. As part of its commitment to the development of

Updated automated tube-cutting software CAD/CAM software company SigmaTek Systems has released the latest version of its automated tube-cutting software, SigmaTube X1. The latest release offers new features and improvements. Users can either select Best Stick Fixed to use a single length stock, or Best Stick Mixed to allow mixing and matching.

SigmaTube X1 has also expanded the functionality of the new Best Stick Nesting feature into the Nest Calculator tool. The new Nest Calculator is a material optimisation tool that calculates the ideal stock length for a task. Using the minimum and maximum length and allowed increment, the calculator displays a complete stock comparison, showing the lengths that yield the highest utilisation percentage. This is also a tool that fabricators can use for quoting, to determine how much stock is needed to complete a job prior

SigmaTube helps tube fabricators complete mission-critical work. The complete tube cutting solution for four-, five- and six-axis cutting machines automatically processes and programs entire assemblies. SigmaTube is fully integrated inside SolidWorks and is capable of programming all tube shapes and sizes. The new Best Stick Nesting feature is a 1D nesting option that gives the best overall yield based on stock selection.

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