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Industry News
16 July 2012
Fives Bronx ships cold sizing mill
FIVES Bronx, the provider of Bronx/
Taylor-Wilson and Abbey International
equipment, continues its global
success in the tube and pipe market
and substantial contributions to the
worldwide demands of the oil and gas
industry, with the completion of a recent
ERW tube and pipe mill project.
Fives Bronx recently shipped a 10" cold
sizing mill, used for high grade casing
products, to theShaanxi ProvinceofChina.
This line uses a series of four-roll driven
passes with quick change capability. It is
used to increase the physical properties
of the casing as well as to improve its
dimensional characteristics, such as to
reduce the diameter of discrete lengths
of round pipe. The result is a perfection
of the pipe roundness and an increase
in the material strength. This process is
done after the pipe has been full-body
heat treated. The heat treatment can be
a fully annealing process or a quenching
and tempering process.
The four-roll driven passes
progressively reduce the pipe diameter,
varying from 1-2 per cent, depending on
the requirement for each pipe grade. A
quick change system is included with
this mill so that the rolls may be changed
often due to frequent size changes.
The Abbey Division of Fives Bronx
has been designing and manufacturing
world-class tube and pipe production
equipment since 1901. Its production
innovation combined with its experience
makes Abbey the quality choice for
ERW mills, no matter what size tube is
required for production.
Fives Bronx – USA
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API finishing line
MAIR Research SpA has supplied
Brazilian tube manufacturer Tuper with
an integrated API finishing line suitable
for processing 340mm tubing.
The line has been recently
commissioned and API certified. It
is connected in line with the mill and
composed of tube cut-off sampling, ID
flushout and bead chopping, chamfering,
hydrotesting (two machines in parallel:
one triple head up to 8" and one for over
8" and up to 340mm), ultrasonic testing,
WMS, coating, packaging and strapping.
A software system keeps track of
information connected to the individual
operations and is interfaced with the
supplier’s server.
Mair Research SpA – Italy
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