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Technology News
28 July 2015
Asmag on course for expansion to
become full-range supplier
TARGETED investment in core
competencies plus global expansion,
leading to stronger market presence –
these are the declared and consistent
goals of Austrian company Asmag,
manufacturer of special purpose
machinery and industrial equipment.
By acquiring the Italian machine
engineering company OCN on 12 May
2015, the company took this strategy
another significant step forward, gaining
not only immediate access to OCN’s
plant assets, patent rights and specialist
expertise, but also a new sales subsidiary
and technical office in Italy.
OCN’s product portfolio perfectly
complements Asmag’s current product
range and represents another milestone
in the Austrian company’s evolution to
meet its defined goals in the market as
a full-range supplier. Founded in 1977,
OCN has developed and produced
machines and equipment for the metal
industry at its site in Udine, Italy. It
has a strong reputation in the field of
non-ferrous metals and specialises in
extrusion run-out systems and drawing
machines for brass, copper, aluminium
and steel tubes and bars. It is in precisely
these fields that Asmag is pursuing its
strategic aim of further extending its
product portfolio to offer its customers the
broadest possible range of equipment in
the production of tubes, bars and profiles.
Customers of OCN worldwide have
come to value the innovative expertise
that the company has developed over the
course of nearly forty years in the design
and production of such equipment.
Asmag is looking forward to utilising
the significant advantages of this
quality-orientated industrial synergy.
OCN’s forward thinking approach will
integrate seamlessly into Asmag’s
existing operations, as customers of both
companies have been able to depend
on high quality, as well as innovative
and individual solutions in the field of
tube, bar and profile production for many
years.
Whether for extrusion, pointing,
drawing, straightening, cutting and
chamfering, finishing, stacking and
bundling or material handling, Asmag is
a choice for special purpose machinery
and plant equipment and claims that
it does not rest until it has designed,
manufactured and put into operation the
best possible solution for the customer.
Asmag – Austria
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Redesigned pin-end
greaser
PMC-Colinet is a machine tool builder
that has been serving the steel tubulars
industry for more than 100 years, with
a focus on end-finishing equipment for
pipe and coupling threading applications.
The company produces rotating
product and rotating tool threading
machines, as well as the related handling
equipment, durable and perishable
tooling, installation and training services
to provide a complete equipment
package from a single supplier. Product
mix, not product geometry, determines
the threading technology best suited
for the job. The company’s engineers
identify this technology with customers
during the discovery phase of each
project.
PMC-Colinet designs and builds a
full line of tube end-finishing machines
that includes pipe cut-offs, bevellers,
threaders, coupling starter and buck-on
equipment, short-stroke and full-stroke
drifters and automatic protector applier
equipment. The company recently
introduced a completely redesigned pin-
end greaser that automatically applies
a programmable volume of thread
lubricant onto the pin end of threaded
pipe. This device complements the
company’s automatic coupling ID
greaser.
PMC-Colinet Belgium has developed
a rotating product coupling cell
arrangement that produces a fully
machined, inspected, coated, painted
and stencilled coupling from incoming
mother tubes, while minimising
personnel requirements.
The company’s USA-based rotating
tool group recently completed shop floor
tests of a commercial tube finishing line
that includes two ½" to 4" nominal OD,
high-output CNC threaders, automatic
coupling starter and protector applier.
The protector applier is equipped with
the pin end greaser. The protector
applier and the coupling starter are
each equipped with automatic feeders
to maintain the 900+ pieces/hr output of
the line.
All four of these machines are mated
to a common walking beam table. All of
the equipment is mounted on a common
sub-base, piped and wired to minimise
installation time at the customer’s plant.
PMC-Colinet – Belgium
Fax: +32 6467 3267
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PMC-Colinet – USA
Fax: +1 440 944 1974
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Automatic coupling greaser