TPi January 2019

Products & developments

Tube fitting manufacturer improves productivity with all-electric tube benders

“We knew of Unison Ltd as we had had dealings with them in the past,” said Linc Turley, director at Ultibend Industries. “We like that, being software engineers, Unison could take our ideas and issues and come up with a tailored solution in the form of a customer-specific machine. “They’re also an ethical company whose values aligned with our own. This has been proved in our dealings with them with the excellent support and prompt response to issues we have.” Ultibend Industries Ltd – New Zealand

Together, the benders are involved in making all Ultibend Industries bends in the ½" to 4" size range. Since installation, the 130mm single stack tube bender has produced 320,912 bends, and the 80mm single stack tube bending machine, which works on the smaller sizes, has made 558,441 bends. Bends from these tube benders go to projects around New Zealand, Australia and the USA, especially dairy factories, breweries and the automotive industry. As the company expanded, it became essential to upgrade the bending process and replace the original in-house built hydraulic bending machines with modern, low-maintenance and reliable all-electric tube bending machines, using bending controlled by software and servomotors.

Two all-electric tube bending machines from Unison Ltd are helping Ultibend Industries to increase the manufac- turing productivity of stainless steel tube fittings for food and bever- age processing systems at its manu- facturing facility in Wellington, New Zealand. Ultibend purchased two customised tube bending machines to suit its proprietary manufacturing process. The machines from Unison automate the bending of tube fitting shapes such as elbows and U-bends, in sizes from ½" to 4" in diameter. have demonstrated that the Unison tube bending machines have boosted manufacturing speed compared with the previous hydraulic bending machines. Manufacturing operations

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