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also reduce or eliminate annealing, thus
reducing energy and material costs.
Involving everyone in the production chain –
the roll tooling engineer, tube mill operator,
and the fabricator – is the key to making the
greatest gains in efficiency. The company
will present its new version of roll design
and process simulation software, branded
Copra® RF and Copra® FEA RF, which
offers enhanced features for the design of
roll tooling and the simulation/verification of
the forming process.
Copra® RF, for example, now supports the
automatic design and analysis of 4-roll
fin passes and 5-roll welding passes and
avoids user’s manual interaction in these
specific cases. It also allows for the design
of cage forming and linear forming tooling.
In the production of extremely thin walled
welded tubes the coil is often drawn to
shape rather than roll formed. With the latest
version of Copra® RF, it is also possible
to integrate the drawing dies within a roll
forming tool set. This allows the analysis of
the complete forming process and to predict
and optimise the final tube’s properties.
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With over 25 years of experience,
Elmaksan is the manufacturer of an
extensive machinery range including
pipe and profile lines, cut-to-length lines,
slitting lines, multi blanking lines, trapeze
lines, open profile lines, slitting knives and
spacers.
The company also offers coil process
equipment, automatic packing machines,
levellers, rotary shears, multiple cutting
units and associated spare parts.
Each of these lines can be modified to meet
specific production needs of the users.
Elmaksan operates two large facilities, one
located in Istanbul (5,000m2) and the other
in Kocaeli (22,000m2), staffed by over 150
people.
More than 80 per cent of the total volume
of production is exported abroad to 40
different countries all over the world.
With a constantly expanding product range,
the company’s machinery is designed,
manufactured and supplied according to
the highest quality standards.
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A special feature – sorting management
and reporting – provides reports that give
defects location, type, and the number
of good and bad parts. The reports also
include different rates with a virtually
unlimited number of parameter sets.
Remote control is possible via the internet,
enabling supervision and support from
anywhere in the world.
With this full range of instruments, it is
possible to achieve the best solution to any
task for flaw detection, material sorting, and
hardness or surface treatment inspection.
A complete range of accessories allows
CMS to offer a solution corresponding to
inspection needs in all situations.
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data M develops software to help engineers
optimise tube properties and understand
the strains a tube undergoes as it is
manufactured and later fabricated. This
knowledge can help engineers reduce
the amount of material necessary and
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Over 30 years of PEX innovations.
Complete manufacturing solutions for all
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Serving the tube & pipe industries from
locations in Switzerland, Finland, Russia,
China and the USA.
Defining Extrusion
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 Copra® RF now features the ability to integrate
drawing dies within a roll forming tool set
 A sample of the software display
 Elmaksan offers pipe and profile lines and other
tube production machinery