TPT March 2012

26-30 March 2012

Tracto-Technik GmbH Germany

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GERMAN engineering company Tracto-Technik (TT) develops and manufactures machines for trenchless pipeline installation and renewal as well as machines, measuring techniques and software solutions for tube fabrication. TT’s tube fabrication division started at the end of the 1960s. At that time Tracto- Technik manufactured hydraulic piling frames for hammering down steel sheet piles, among others. Because he couldn’t find any machine on the market to work all the hydraulic tubes, company founder Paul Schmidt quickly invented such a machine. The device was named Tubomat, and integrated all functions necessary for hydraulic tubing in just one flexible and mobile unit: sawing, internal and external de-burring, bending, flaring, assembling of cutting-rings and chamfering of tubes from 6 to 42mm outside diameter. In 1994 Prof Hermann Simon certified Tracto-Technik’s high innovation power in his book Hidden Champions . Today, more than 350 patents and numerous awards indicate this guiding principle. TT is proud of developing and manufacturing machines, and not only being an assembling company. Parts and tools are produced using state-of-the-art, high precision CNC machines for milling, boring, turning and grinding, and all wear parts undergo an elaborate heat treatment or coating process. Changing from machine provider to sys- tem supplier was a key step for Tracto- Technik. The company’s tube fabrication product range includes all-electric and electro-hydraulic CNC tube bending machines, semi-automatic tube benders, mechanical

tube end formers, assembly machines for hydraulic tubingand tubemeasuring systems as well as software solutions for work- flow management of tube and pipe shops. Various companies worldwide – from small metalworking shops to the global players of automotive industry, ship building industry or plant engineering – secure their success using Tracto-Technik products. The latest developments are the Tubotron Vario 40 RL tube bending machine and the Tuboscan S optical tube measuring system. The Tubotron Vario 40 RL is an all-round bending machine with Vario equipment. The all-electric, multi-stack CNC tube bending machine is able to perform right- and left-hand bending; it integrates rotary- draw bending and freeform bending and is suited to the bending of complex tube and pipe shapes in series production. The main applications are in the field of aerospace technology, automotive industry or furniture industry. Tubomat 642 solution for all steps of processing hydraulic tubes from 6 to 42mm OD

With Tuboscan S the company has extended its range of tube measuring systems. This innovative optical measuring device is able to precisely determine the geometric tube data within a matter of seconds. The tube under measurement is applied to a light-transmissive surface and Tracto-Technik develops and manufactures tube-related machines, measuring techniques and software solutions › › ›

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