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low demand maintenance for every customer. This is the reason that Bronx/Taylor-Wilson is continually
viewed and considered to be the most reliable and trustworthy Tube Straightening specialist in the market
place today. The world’s leading tube producers have entrusted Bronx/Taylor-Wilson to finish to their high
value products for over 70 years and Bronx/Taylor-Wilson is proud to lead the market place into the next level
of quality and precision.
Two (2) machines will be supplied as part of a new, fully automated finishing line for the latest tube produc-
tion facility for a customer in Russia. The customer is the biggest producer of heavy wall oil country tubular
goods: drill pipes, casing pipes, oil-well tubing, oil-and-gas pipes as well as rustproof, rolled-up soldered
tubes, seamless hot rolled and cold-worked, and non-corrosive pipes. The customer’s products are delivered
to all oil and gas production associations, to industrial plants, the energy industry, the construction industry,
and by public works companies. The pipes are produced in compliance with global standards.
The straightening machines are a part of a finishing line which is at the forefront of modern technology and
automation, the most modern of its type in any CIS tube making facility. This equipment will process cold
drawn steel tube and has been designed to accommodate a particularly broad range of tubes, and Bronx/
Taylor-Wilson’s 10-Roll Design can straighten to the most stringent of tolerances at high speeds.
The Bronx/Taylor-Wilson 10CR6 machine for Russia has the following capacity for this particular installation:
• Diameter range of 25 to 123.0 mm
• Maximum Wall thickness is 15.0 mm
• Maximum yield strength can be up to 700 MPa
• Tube length range from 2.4m to 8.0m
• Pipe temperatures range between of 5 to 50°C
The 10CR1/2 machine for Russia has the following capacity for this particular installation:
• Diameter range of 5 to 15.0 mm
• Wall thickness range up from 0.2mm
• Maximum yield strength can be up to 700 MPa
• Tube length range from 1.0m to 6.0m
• Pipe temperatures range between of 5 to 50°C
In addition the customer required a new straightening machine to obtain the optimal straightness and ovality
with CNC COMPASS Setting and Pressure Sensing Load Sensing control. It is imperative with this custom-
er’s type of product that all straightening process data is retained to be issued with the end product.
Bronx/Taylor-Wilson has also seen a substantial boom in business and interest in their specialized 10-Roll
Machines for Straightening and Rounding up of Stainless Steel and Inconel Tubes for use in the steam gen-
erator/nuclear industry. An example of this is the supply of equipment to a customer in main land Europe
which will straighten and process Inconel tube with an outside diameter ranging from 12 mm to 60 mm, and
wall thickness up to 8 mm. The customer is the leading producer of speciality tubular products made of stain-
less steel and Nickel alloys exclusively for nuclear power stations using the pressurized water technology.
This range of end products covers various needs, often in small quantities, requiring the intervention of a
wide variety of techniques. The products concerned are customized nickel alloy and stainless steel tubulars
with particularly demanding specifications and a nuclear quality follow up. Their main characteristics are a
light wall thickness, operating conditions involving high pressure and temperature and an expected life span
of several decades.
The 10CR5 machine has the following capacity for this particular installation:
• Diameter range of 15 to 60mm, maximum wall thickness is 8mm
The 10CR3 machine has the following capacity for this particular installation:
• Diameter range of 12 to 26mm, Maximum Wall thickness is 3mm
Another example is a machine supplied to Jiuli of the PR of China, a leading manufacturer of stainless steel,
nickel alloy, super duplex and titanium pipes and tubes. Jiuli has been providing superior piping and tubing