TPT January 2011

S traightening & F inishing

Straightening manufacturing giant seals global deals

BRONX/TAYLOR-WILSON, West Midlands, UK and North Canton, Ohio, USA, has recently secured a number of orders for its precision, CNC computer-controlled, 10-roll tube straightening installations. The new Bronx machines are at the forefront of technological advances and employ the very latest mechanical and electronic features. These features offer the end user the confidence of processing their tubular products to the highest possible quality standards in the most efficient manner possible. Additionally, they provide the benefit of consistent straightness, ovality and throughput without the issues of marking or adversely altering the mechanical properties of the product. These installations have been supplied with complete product handling and automatic process mode sequencing to ensure the efficiency of the system is the highest available in the marketplace. The straightening installations are all controlled by Bronx/Taylor-Wilson’s patented “COMPASS” Computer Aided Setting System, which utilises the latest in industrial electrical and electronic technology. The COMPASS System provides the customer with not only a consistently high quality product and throughput capacity, but also with the added benefit that machine set up times for a size change have now been reduced to less than three minutes. The data collection and storage of the Bronx COMPASS System is becoming increasingly vital to the tube and pipe process. It allows the manufacturer to supply a “passport” of data with each batch of tubes, which is becoming imperative to the end user when processing such sensitive and critical components as these customers produce. The systems provided by Bronx/Taylor-Wilson integrate seamlessly with the quality management systems employed by the customers. This guarantees that all production processes are controlled ensuring that all materials are traceable and only the highest quality materials are delivered to their customer. Bronx continues to design bespoke machines renowned for high quality, robustness, user friendliness and low demand maintenance for every customer. This is the reason, says Bronx/Taylor- Wilson, that it is considered to be one of the most reliable and trustworthy tube straightening specialists in the marketplace. Some of the world’s leading tube producers have entrusted Bronx/Taylor-Wilson to finish their high value products for over 70 years. Bronx/Taylor-Wilson added that it is proud to offer the highest possible level of quality and precision.

Bronx/Taylor-Wilson’s 10.CR.3 series cross-roll tube straightener

Two machines will be supplied as part of a new, fully automated finishing line for the latest tube production facility for a customer in Russia. The customer is the biggest producer of heavy wall oil country tubular goods: drill pipes, casing pipes, oil-well tubing, oil-and- gas pipes as well as rustproof, rolled-up soldered tubes, seamless hot rolled and cold-worked and non-corrosive pipes. The customer’s products are delivered to all oil and gas production associations, to industrial plants, the energy industry, the construction industry and public works companies. The pipes are produced in compliance with global standards. The straightening machines are part of a finishing line which is at the forefront of modern technology and automation, the most modern of its type in any CIS tube making facility. This equipment will process cold drawn steel tube and has been designed to accommodate a particularly broad range of tubes, and Bronx/Taylor-Wilson’s 10-roll design can straighten to the most stringent of tolerances at high speeds. The Bronx/Taylor-Wilson 10CR6machine for Russia has the following capacity for this particular installation: • Diameter range of 25 to 123mm • Maximum wall thickness is 15mm • Yield strength can be up to 700 MPa • Tube length range from 2.4m to 8m • Pipe temperatures range between 5 to 50°C The 10CR1/2 machine for Russia has the following capacity for this particular installation: • Diameter range of 5 to 15mm • Wall thickness range up from 0mm • Maximum yield strength of 700 MPa • Tube length range from 1m to 6m • Pipe temperatures between 5 to 50°C.

In addition the customer required a new straightening machine to obtain the optimal straightness and ovality with CNC COMPASS setting and pressure sensing load sensing control. It is imperative with this customer’s type of product that all straightening process data is retained to be issued with the end product. Bronx/Taylor-Wilson has also seen a substantial boom in business and interest in its specialised 10-roll machines for straightening and rounding up of stainless steel and inconel tubes for use in the steam generator/nuclear industry. An example of this is the supply of equipment to a customer in mainland Europe, which will straighten and process Inconel tube with an outside diameter ranging from 12mm to 60mm, and wall thickness up to 8mm. The customer is a leading producer of speciality tubular products made of stainless steel and nickel alloys exclusively for nuclear power stations using the pressurised water technology. This range of end products covers various needs, often in small quantities, requiring the intervention of a wide variety of techniques. The products concerned are customised nickel alloy and stainless steel tubulars with particularly demanding specifications and a nuclear quality follow up. The 10CR5 machine has the following capacity for this particular installation: • Diameter range of 15 to 60mm, maximum wall thickness is 8mm The 10CR3 machine has the following capacity for this particular installation: • Diameter range of 12 to 26mm, maximum wall thickness is 3mm.

Bronx/Taylor-Wilson – USA Email: sales@btwcorp.com Website: www.btwcorp.com

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