TPT March 2014

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standardised steel plant productions are not able to serve. All of the company management systems are certificated in compliance with the requirements defined by ISO 9001 and ISO TS 16949 standards and confirm that the objectives set by the Group in terms of total quality are achieved. Profilmec Group also believes in the importance of sustainable and eco-compatible envelopment. For this reason the company has obtained the prestigious UNI EN ISO 14001 certification, which is a voluntary international standard specifying the requirements of an environmental management system. USA QUAKER Chemical, which specialises in supplying chemicals to the tube and pipe industry to offer system-wide expertise, as well as a comprehensive portfolio of processing fluids and coatings, will exhibit at Tube Düsseldorf in Germany this year. Quaker will showcase its “front-to-back” approach in helping customers solve the complex business challenges of today. Its global team of experts provides application expertise and customised support services locally to assist in the entire seamless and welded tube and pipe making process – everything from casting, forming and finishing, to coating of tubular products – maximising productivity while ensuring process and chemical compatibility. On the front end, Quaker’s leading position in process fluids and speciality lubricants for steel mills provides synergies and benefits in the applications of fire-resistant hydraulic fluids, speciality greases, and hot forming and rolling lubricants for seamless pipe production. In welded tube processes, the corrosion preventives applied on incoming coiled substrate help optimise subsequent tube-forming operations. Further downstream, Quaker leads the way with innovative metalworking fluids for higher performing pipe- threading applications and stringent finishing operations. At the back end, the coatings, including environmentally friendly solvent-based coatings, fast- drying, low-VOC, water-based coatings and UV coatings, can be customised to Email: profilmec@profilmec.it Website: www.profilmec.it Quaker Chemical 5E26

The measurements have an accuracy of approximately 0.25mm, resulting in a perfect calculated digital tube model. LRA and XYZ data are instantly available. The end result, including the measurements, inspection data and additional project related data will be digitally stored in the Proliner and is also available as a PDF report. Fax: +31 492 579059 Email: marketing@prodim-systems.com Website: www.prodim-systems.com Italy PROFILMEC’S core business is the manufacturing of high frequency, electrically welded, cold-rolled steel tubes, made from hot-rolled, cold-rolled pickled, aluminium plated rolled, hot electric or galvanised dual phase strips. It has gained valuable experience during the years of successful presence in the field of pipe production. The whole group occupies a total area of over 450,000m 2 , of which 140,000m 2 are covered, and produces about 3 million metres/day, equal to 1,450 tons/day. The products of the Profilmec Group pipe manufacturing plants have many applications ranging from the automotive to the bicycle and motorcycle industry, to home and garden furnishings, camping equipment, nursery items, toys, household goods, radiators and appliances for the building sector. Profilmec Group supplies tubes with specific technical/technological features for the kind of machining they will undergo (cut, bending, pot die forming, painting and galvanisation). Profilmec Group’s product range includes round, square, rectangular, oval, semi-oval, elliptical and special drawing shapes pipes. The diameters range is from 8 to 120mm, with thickness from 0.5 to 3mm. The wide range of Profilmec Group’s moulds represents evidence of its engagement to meet the customer’s needs and its competitive advantage in the market. Beside a wide provision of pipe production plants, the group also includes a steel cold-rolling plant, an Ebner furnace-based annealing plant and a skin passing plant. Rolling, hydrogen annealing in Ebner furnaces and skin passing allow the exploitation of both strip and tube finished products, which become unique for all those market niches that Profilmec SpA 3C58

The Proliner is a measuring device that works with a wire of ten metres. Because of this length it is possible to measure small and large tubes easily, without changing the position of the Proliner. Users are able to measure, check and edit tubes and pipes on site. On-board CAD functions make the measurement immediately ready for production. To ensure accurate data, Prodim continuously develops and improves software in order to meet the changing requirements of companies in the tube industry. By combining a measuring device and software in one machine, it is not necessary to carry an extra computer around the factory or measuring location. A USB or LAN connection makes it possible to transfer digital measurements to a CNC tube bender. The TubeCheck software is developed for quality control of tubes. In addition to measuring, tubular data can also be inspected. A measured tube or part of a tube can be compared with the master data using TubeCheck. By defining the tolerances of the tangent and intersection points, it is clear if the product passes or fails the specifications.

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Prodim will present TubeCheck and Proliner at Tube Düsseldorf

TubeCheck also makes it possible to calculate the precise centrelines of tubes. To measure and check radii and angles of a particular tube, only a few sections of the tube have to be measured, and the results can be immediately viewed on the Proliner. When the bend radius is not specified or when multiple bends with different radii exist, it is possible to measure the radii in the same sequence. When the bend radius is presented on the screen, the operator has the option to use the determined radius for all bends.

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