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Tube and pipe mi l ls
This section of Tube & Pipe Technology reviews the
basic apparatus of tube and pipe production: machinery
which, over generations of hands-on practice, continues
to evolve with advances in computer numerical control
(CNC) and related developments. How to gauge
“progress” year-to-year in a technology whose default
setting is already state-of-the art?
A useful exercise is to note how very little attrition there
is in a modern tube and pipe plant. A builder of welded
seam tube mills offers – in addition to the classic industry
standard still in wide use today – a universal shaft-driven
style and a heavy-duty model. With the company’s
single-point adjustment (SPA) feature, the new owner
of one of its used units takes possession of a mill that is
essentially re-engineered for a new day.
Proven methodologies are not supplanted but enhanced.
The companies represented in these pages know
that the way forward lies in cautious and painstaking
modification of the time-tested machinery and equipment
of tube making.
Tube and pipe mills
Photo: Olimpia 80 Srl