TPT November 2013

Technology News

Five decades of experience STAROFIT is a major supplier for steel, alloy steel and stainless steel butt- welding fittings in Europe.

which enables it to provide prompt responses to customers’ requests. Its holdings range from a large stock of ASME and EN/DIN standardised products to highly specialised elbows and fittings with extreme wall thicknesses and dimensions. With a rigorous supplier selection process in place, only products from ISO, PED and TÜV approved manufacturers are accepted. The company also specialises in demand-based tailor-made elbows and fittings to cater to complex requirements, and provides products that are sustainable under extreme conditions (eg temperature, pressure and mediums).

fittings specialists who are dedicated to serve international customers. With the additional flexibility contributed by this team, the company is able to provide rapid deliveries to customers abroad. Starofit recently exhibited at the Tubotech International Trade Fair in São Paulo for a second time, and is busy with preparations for the upcoming Stainless Steel World Conference & Exhibition 2013 in Maastricht, and Tube 2014 in Düsseldorf.

International orientation has always been one of Starofit’s focuses. The company has been actively strengthening its international presence and customer base. In order to better support the growing volume and to meet rising international demands, Starofit has reorganised its export departments, and formed a new team of

The company now holds in stock seamless elbows and fittings in material WP 304H, dimensions ½" to 8", and has also improved its ability to fulfil demands for duplex stainless steels. It stocks fittings and elbows in material 1.4462 that are 3.2 TÜV certified in accordance with VdTÜV 418. Starofit has a permanent fittings stock of 6,500 tons,

Starofit has a permanent fittings stock of 6,500 tons

Starofit Klose GmbH & Co KG – Germany

Fax: +49 4222 9440 44 Email: sales@starofit.de Website: www.starofit.de

Plastic deformation of metal tube IRON’S Technology, a company located in Cesena, Italy, attended Tube Metallurgy Russia 2013, held in Moscow last June. The company, founded in 2011 by Rudi Bragagni, Marco Senni and Andrea Ancarani, was there with the purpose of submitting their invention: a machine that allows plastic deformation of any metal tube. machine, have developed the software and the complete new technology has been patented. As soon as they realised the project the machine was thought for, they improved the newly discovered technology in order to obtain further and more distorted shapes.

and materials together with several combination of pitch, tilt angle and depth. Iron’s Technology provides three size of MAS1, depending on the size of the tube and deformation requested: the small, the medium and the large one, named S, EL and HT series. Today the company is undertaking the second step of studying by several cooperations with other partners in order to find specific shapes for different applications of tubes: internal and external design, design and producing of moulds, heat exchange, food, medical, eco-innovation and motorcycle applications. Iron’s Technology is a start-up company that aims to be both a machine and tube producer, with the purpose of developing technologies already existing with this important innovation in continuous improvement. Iron’s Technology Srl – Italy Email: sales.tec@ironstechnology.it Website: www.irontechsrl.it

MAS1 (the name of the machine) is now able to perform cold and hot plastic deformation on tubes with diameters ranging between 10-12 and 500mm and thickness ranging between 2 and 8-10mm. MAS1’s working principle is inspired by the lathe, but unlike the lathe, it doesn’t work by cutting but by deformation. The machine has two tools working in opposition on a carriage that has a translation movement along the axle of the tube itself. The combination of pipe rotation and tools translation allows deformations able to realise a virtually infinite number of shapes on the tube. The technology of MAS1 makes it possible by using tools of different kinds

These three young entrepreneurs started to study plastic deformation of small diameter tubes for heat exchange application. At the moment there is no technology able to realise any given shape, but it is only possible to create small deformations by rolling. Studies and simulations demonstrate that increasing exchange surface and creating turbulence inside the tube improves heat exchange with a high energy saving. This necessity has given rise to the idea of creating a machine able to work off line tubes after production and realising the optimal desired shape. After four years of studies Iron’s Technology’s engineers have settled the prototype

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