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Industry News
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
and industrial exhaust systems. Bell Steel
Fabrications has also expanded further
into general engineering applications
such as frames for generator and pump
sets, structural steelwork and heavy
fabrications. Installing the new BLM Elect
80 will give further impetus and scope for
future improvements.
The largest of the threemodels available,
the BLM Elect 80 can bend tube up to
80mm OD and 2mm material thickness.
Its multi-stack tool mounting facility allows
multi radius and variable radius bending of
the same tube to take place in a single set-
up. Bends with very little straight between
them, even compound bends, can also
be accommodated, along with tight bends
that can have a radius less than the
tube diameter.
All critical machine setting parameters
are managed by the Siemens 840D SL
CNC ‘Solution-Line’ control system. This
interfaces with BLM’s VGP3D graphical
programming and simulation software
BELL Steel Fabrications Ltd of Swindon,
England, has placed an order with BLM
Group UK Ltd for a new BLM Elect 80
all-electric, nine axes, CNC tube bending
machine.
According to Matthew Bell, operations
director, this latest generation machine, which
can easily be switched between right-hand
and left-hand bending configurations, “is the
best and most versatile CNC tube bending
machine on the market and an ideal choice to
open up new business opportunities.”
Established in 1980 as the engineering
division of Bell Silencer Services Ltd,
Bell Steel Fabrications moved into a new
purpose-built factory in 2000 and took
on the mantle of supplying classic car
stainless steel exhaust systems from Bell
Silencer Services. The range of products
that Bell Steel Fabrications now has to
offer is highly regarded among classic car
enthusiasts, while the company has gone
from strength to strength, moving into
new markets such as commercial, marine
to provide fully automatic and truly
interpolated simultaneous movement of
all nine machine axes, thereby eliminating
‘dead time’ within the tube bending cycle.
BLM Group UK Ltd – UK
Fax: +44 1525 402 312
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Bell Steel Fabrications’ stainless steel exhaust systems
use tube formed on a new BLM CNC tube bender
Fabrications specialist orders tube bender