TPT September 2014

Industry News

Automated tube cutting lines BEWO Cutting Systems, a developer and manufacturer of automated tube cutting lines, will be represented at Fabtech by Kent Corporation. Besides Bewo tube cutting equipment, Kent offers coil handling, welding, accumulators, tube mills, consumables and deburring equipment to the metal forming industry. The company is the exclusive North American distributor for Bewo. lines is the extreme short changeover times. Changing over a complete line consisting of a cutting machine (SCF- 90 Sigma), deburring machine, a digital length control system and a stacking robot is simple and takes roughly 12 minutes and just a few tools.” Fax: +31 13 4677079 Email: info@bewo.nl Website: www.bewo.nl

outside Europe and the USA, within the global tube processing business.

Bewo Cutting Systems BV – The Netherlands

As well as supplying equipment, installation and training of customers’ personnel, Bewo is committed to bringing new developments to the market. The company has expanded its collaboration with sales and service partners in several European countries, and has introduced a web shop for

At Fabtech Kent will present the fully automatic tube cutting lines that Bewo develops and produces. Kent’s CEO, Dean Costello, explained why he is so positive about representing Bewo’s automatic cutting lines: “With Bewo it’s not just looks. The cutting lines are very distinctive in many ways. Bewo has a high degree in technical know-how and customisation. This makes them very flexible regarding the configuration of the machines and they can realise integrated plug and play solutions. Another unique point of Bewo’s cutting

dealers and end- users of the manually

operated Bewo CPO 315 saw in the Benelux region. Bewo is also a known and broadly rep- resented brand

SCR-90 stacking robot in the Bewo cutting line

System for processing pipes for bed frames

machine and two bends are made in the same time. In addition to fully automatic operation, and due to the low level of noise produced and the clean cutting, the system has a special advantage, as transfluid managing director Gerd Nöker emphasised: “The machine can be installed directly next to the further processing. When the downstream welding robot retrieves the desired geometry, the corresponding component is available in just a few seconds for welding.” Since 1988 transfluid has been further developing its technologies for tube machining, so that it can provide customer-orientated, tailor- made solutions for plant and machine construction, the automotive and energy industries, shipbuilding and medical device manufacturing. transfluid Maschinenbau GmbH – Germany Email: info@transfluid.de Website: www.tube-processing-machines.com

The system uses square pipe to fabricate all the components needed for the mattress support, completely automatically. It can be loaded with two bundles of pipes, which are automatically sorted, and a special shear system cuts them with knives, practically silently and entirely without burrs. The pipe parts are then fed into a double-headed bending

A SYSTEM specially made by transfluid Maschinenbau GmbH for processing pipes for bed framescanvirtuallyproduce the main components by itself. The only thing that has to be pre-programmed is the number of beds needed, and their width. The components for each bed can then be fabricated in a ‘one piece flow process’.

Fully automatic production of mattress support from rectangular tubes

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