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Technology News
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Cage forming for square sections
THE latest generation of linear cage
forming technologies has been put
into operation in North Europe, at a
manufacturer of high quality stainless
steel tubes.
The complete, fully automatic tube
mill, including surface finishing, tube
end facing, unloading and packaging
sections, can produce square tubes
from 40 x 40mm to 120 x 120mm, and
rectangular tubes from 50 x 40mm to
180 x 60mm, in a thickness range from
2 to 8mm in stainless steel austenitic,
ferritic and Duplex grades.
The maximum mill speed is 80m/min.
The mill can produce all square and
rectangular tubes within the size range,
without change of any rolls in forming,
welding, sizing, straightening and clamp
jaws in cut off.
The main advantages of the tech-
nology include facility and rapidity in
changing the profile dimensions; simple
maintenance; and simplicity in software
utilisation.
The mill makes it easy to produce
both square and rectangular tubes by
means of computerised control, where
data is stored in order to produce all the
tube sizes in the range.
The PLC records all the utilised data,
and it is possible to create particular
‘shapes’ with different angles. From the
PC it is possible to see the ‘tube flower’
to be produced. The average time for
changing tube set-up is around ten
minutes.
Olimpia 80 Srl – Italy
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Linear cage forming technology