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Industry News
IT’S THE TOOLS
THAT SAY HOW GOOD YOU ARE
THE T-DRILL CHIPLESS TUBE CUT-OFF
SYSTEM PROVIDES SEVERAL BENEFITS
OF 1,5 MM - 51 MM TUBE CUTTING:
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No expensive saw blades needed
Long blade life
No material loss between cuts
No chips - no investment for chip handling
No deburring
No need for washing machine
Fast cycle time – maximum ~3000 pieces / hour
Cuts exact 90° to run tube axial line
Low operating noise level
Waste minimizing and cut piece optimization systems
Optional in-line endforming unit will cut and endform
tubes up to 1400 pcs / hour
Recoiling system after cutting available
SOLUTIONS FOR TUBE CUTTING
Expertise and
innovation
AXXAIR brings expertise in design, manufacturing, servicing
and training of high quality orbital cutting, bevelling and
welding equipment for the tube and pipe industry.
This technical offer is promoted and supported by a wide
range of partners all over the world and completed by its
own subsidiaries. It covers 60 countries and subsidiaries
in southeast Asia, Germany and the USA to help to bring
more support to its network and customers in the different
regions of the world. This network of specific skills supports
its innovation programme with the target to bring adapted
solutions that respond to customer needs. This network also
helps to find global solutions for customers where companies
are willing to propose their solutions all over the world.
Axxair also makes aftersales service and repair its priority
– such as equipment training, cutting/bevelling and welding
samples. The company can provide training at its facility in
the skills of cutting, bevelling and orbital welding in Valence,
France, in Rastatt, in Seoul, South Korea, in Shanghai,
China, and in Houston, USA, or it can send one of its
specialists to a company factory for on-site training. When
purchasing equipment, Axxair provides a welding report
detailing all of the programs used so that the user does not
have to repeat them.
Axxair – France
Website:
30" ODF mill line
NAKATA has received its first order for the newly developed
ODF (orbital die forming) pipe mill from a Chinese pipe
manufacturer. The pipe size is up to 762mm OD, and
25.4mm wall thickness, and most of the products are API
line pipes up to X80 grade.
Differing from the conventional roll forming process, ODF
is an innovative technology in which movable dies are
combined to form a continuous tool surface and work like
a huge roll or moving press machine. This concept makes
the forming process very gentle and stable, resulting in
adaptability to a wide range of product sizes and material
properties, excellent surface quality and lower work
hardening level in the material.
Both steel plates and coils can be used as raw materials in
this production line, and the pipes can be produced in ‘plate-
by-plate’ or ‘coil-by-coil’ style respectively.
This hybrid production process allows the user to have the
flexibility in selecting raw materials corresponding to the size
of lot or dimensions of product. Nakata has a 4" ODF test
machine in its shop, with which the customer can verify the
performance of the forming process.
Nakata Mfg Co, Ltd – Japan
Fax: +81 6 6303 1905
Email:
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