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TUBE RUSS I A 2009
Specialities include quench and temper
lines, annealing furnaces, and heat
treatment solutions for seams and welds.
PMC Colinet – USA
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PMC Colinet – Belgium
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Reika offers a range of straightening
machines, tube finishing systems and
tube cutting machines. The company has
recently announced a new sales record
of €30 million for 2008. For 2009, Reika’s
complete production capability is sold
out due to big orders from Vallourec &
Mannesmann, Tenaris, Interpipe, Benteler,
and Tubos Reunidos.
The company has successfully installed
a large number of new straightening
machines, tube finishing systems and tube
cutting machines. The company’s main
customers are seamless tube mills and
automotive/tube processing companies.
Seamless tube mills are discovering an
increasing number of advantages to the
automatic material flow in cold finishing
lines, with overall material tracking and
optimization process. The tube optimizing
software in tube finishing lines can help to
reduce the material scrap by up to 3 per
cent. In addition, precise straightening of
tubes up to the ends is an advantage of the
new straightening lines and increases the
yield of the tube mills.
In particular the east European market is
replacing old equipment with new finishing
lines. Integrated NDT testing lines, which
are interfaced in the material flow and in
the data communication in front of the cut-
off line, make individual automatic tube
treatment very easy. The bad ends and
necessary production/fixed length can be
optimized and cut according to the results
from the testing section.
Variable tube positioning allows individual
tube handling and saves material. Tool
costs for cutting can be saved due to the
constant cutting process of the rotary cut-
off machines, which are much more efficient
in comparison with carbide saws with
interrupted cut and long blade change times.
At this year’s Tube Russia, Reika will show the
advantages of its new finishing line in regards
to cost saving and quality improvement. The
finishing lines still operating on many tube
mills are very labour intensive. They often
lack the automatic material handling (with
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Reika GmbH & Co KG
Germany
 Reika offers the full scope of cold tube finishing
systems
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