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The custom-made solutions are used
for specific applications such as tube
or profile layers, billets or plate sawing
plants.
Each machine is intended to utilise
carbide tipped saw blades, which
guarantee an accurate cut and high
capacity by less costs and long tool life
time.
MFL supplies sawing machines for
round materials and tubes from 30 to
800mm in diameter.
The saw blade diameter, which is used
for cutting of 800mm in diameter, is
2,200mm. The largest square dimension
that can be cut with MFL sawing
machines is 720mm.
The company has also developed a layer
sawing machine with a layer width of
1.5m, which is used for cutting tubes, I-
and U-beams, sheet pilings and angles.
In addition, MFL supplies sawing
machines for cutting aluminium plates,
coupons and other samples for material
inspection.
For manufacturers of railway rails,
MFL offers a special sawing machine
– the combined rail sawing and drilling
machine.
This type of machine cuts and
simultaneously drills holes into the rail,
which guarantees very short cycle times
for the cutting and drilling process.
MFL – Austria
Multimetals Ltd
Multimetals Limited is a manufacturer
and exporter of seamless extruded
drawn copper and copper alloy tubes.
The company supplies applications
including heat exchangers, nuclear
and thermal power plants, shipbuilding
and repairs, petroleum refineries, sugar
plants, defence establishments, and air
conditioning and refrigeration.
The product range includes tube
and pipe manufactured from copper,
capillary, cupro-nickel, admiralty brass,
aluminium brass and other brasses,
together with bare, low fin and U-bend
tubes. Other products include copper-
alloy rods, profiles and alloys such as
aluminium and manganese bronze,
naval brass, cadmium and tellurium
copper.
The company, which exports to all
developed countries, has won 11 Export
Excellence awards in the last 13 years.
Multimetals Ltd – India
Nexans
Deutschland GmbH
Nexans Deutschland GmbH is the
manufacturer of a new universal welding
machine, branded the Uniwema®650.
This machine is capable of manu-
facturing corrugated stainless steel
pipes up to an OD of 650mm and a wall
thickness of 3mm.
Prior to the development of this
machine, the largest Uniwema machine
was limited to an OD of 400mm.
The new machine was designed as a
solution for today’s onshore and offshore
LNG (liquefied natural gas) transfer and
terminal applications.
The LNG industry requires vacuum-
insulated, flexible, stainless steel pipes
with an outer diameter of up to 16".
Environmental and safety aspects
currently play the most important role in
the increasingly sensitive LNG market.
The well-proven technology of the
split clamp caterpillar capstan in com-
bination with the Uniwema corrugation
technology will be used for this
continuous forming, welding and
corrugating machine.
Nexans is in the position to deliver any
length of corrugated pipe systems up to
an ID of 600mm.
Depending on transportation restrict-
ions, a typical length of one pipe section
is from 55m up to 350m. The drive
system of the split clamp caterpillar
capstan comes in the form of a hydraulic
system, while the electrically driven
corrugation unit is synchronised to the
capstan speed. Welding is performed
through the company’s patented and
ASME approved Polyarc process.
Benefiting from worldwide unique
Uniwema technology – claimed to be the
only technology capable of continuously
producing 16" and 20" flexible metal
pipes – onshore and offshore LNG ter-
minals will be able to avoid excess-gas
burning of the resource of natural gas.
Nexans Deutschland GmbH
– Germany
Shanghai Want
Industry Co Ltd
Shanghai Want Industry Co Ltd (WTPF)
is a private-owned company and export-
oriented manufacturer of stainless steel
tube, pipe and fittings. With a skilled
staff of 242, the company supplies
to markets including oil and gas,
power plant, chemical industry, petro-
chemicals, food and pharmaceuticals,
shipbuilding, pumps, paper making and
other engineering construction fields.
The Shanghai Want range consists of
high-quality stainless steel butt-weld
pipefitting and seamless stainless
steel pipe and tube. The company’s
production capacity is approximately
300 tons of fittings and 400 tons of tube
and pipe per month.
Shanghai Want Industry Co Ltd
– China
Nexans has developed a new universal S S
welding machine for LNG applications
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