Advanced bending automation helps shape future for Californian tube bending specialist
Reducing process steps is the driving factor behind tube bending specialist SF Tube's latest investment in CNC machinery. The San Francisco Bay area fabricator has purchased an all-electric, software-controlled tube bender from Unison. The new CNC automation is providing much more flexibility for the fabricator compared with its existing hydraulically-actuated machines. The machine allows it to produce more complex tubular shapes including rotary draw bent and roll formed curves in a single machining operation - parts that in some cases used to require successive operations on up to three different...
Published By: direct industry - pipes - Saturday, 11 December, 2010