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Technology Update
European official distributor
impeder cores U.S.M. Mazzucchelli S.r.l.
USM provides top quality products
and services to the Tube and Pipe
industries worldwide. We have a
wide range of top quality items
and devices for tube
manufacturers’ requirements.
Once our products have been
chosen, we can immediately
deliver them from our stock.
Ferrite cores Impeders
Carbide inserts
HSS blades Guillotine blades Other....
Ceramic rolls Inside tube scarfing Cutting rings
Tool holder Copper inductors
Fibreglass tubes
V.le Lombardia,4 - 20052 Monza - MI - Italy
Tel. +39/039.387282 - 2301687 Fax +39/039.387633
Economic tube production
SEUTHE GmbH is part of the Austrian
engineering and plant building ASMAG
group.
Its state-of-the-art manufacturing
facilities support Seuthe GmbH’s
high level of in-house production and
allowed to deliver every second month
one complete FCF® section mill to
European tube producers in the first
half of 2011.
Patented since 1998, the FCF®
(Flexible Cold Forming) technology
offers unbeatable advantages and
even more in conjunction with Seuthe’s
financing programme.
The company directly shapes the
square or rectangular profile from the
strip.
The formerly used method of
shaping a mother tube under high
forces to a quadrangle profile created
a material thickening in the corner radii.
The direct forming by FCF® prevents
this. This sounds something less than
spectacular, but this material loss is
a countable and considerable figure
on a profit and loss account. Profile
production with FCF® saves up to 8% of
strip material!
The idea of linear cage forming has
been brought to an advanced level by
Seuthe.
Well developed universal tool
rolls enable the production of a
wide dimension range – inclusive of
all in-between dimensions. All the
operator needs to do is to chose the
pre-setted dimension or to insert the
new dimension values at the operator
desk.
The machine will automatically
adjust all forming rolls accordingly.
No need to stop the production line for
hours because of the time-consuming
tool roll change. The dimensional
change takes now 15–45 minutes.
Seuthe has held the patent for this
direct forming technology for 13 years
and improved this technology through
the years to provide a sophisticated
production solution.
Many references of this direct forming
method throughout the globe confirm
its economic value and customer
satisfaction.
In 112 years at the market, Seuthe
gained good experience to realise
projects economically and profitably in
Made in Germany quality. The company
said that even 50 years from now,
Seuthe production lines can still be
working reliably and economically.
Seuthe GmbH – Germany
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