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Leading Manufacturers
Tube Bending Incorporated
Apple Valley, CA | 760-948-4220As tube fabrication experts, we can solve your fabrication problems with ease! We take our product quality seriously, as we started our company sourcing tube products for the Apollo project. Our company goal is to satisfy customers by offering high quality products, outstanding customer service, and affordable prices. Visit us online today to learn more!
Sharpe Products
New Berlin, WI | 800-879-4418Sharpe Products, an ISO 9001:2008 registered company, offers custom pipe/tube NC & CNC mandrel bending and rolling services up to 6” O.D. We also provide value added services including end forming and welding. Jobs ranging from prototype to large volume production welcome. We serve many pipe and tube fabrication manufacturers as well as OEMs. Contact our company today for a quote!
Bauer Welding & Metal Fabricators, Inc.
St. Paul, MN | 763-786-6025Founded in 1946, Bauer specializes in tube fabrication & tube bending (mandrel, press, draw & crush bending) up to 6” OD round, & 4” square & rectangular tubing (with .028” to .250” wall thickness). High speed tube laser cutting, robotic welding and high-def plasma cutting. ISO 9001-2008 certified. We are a employee owned company that values high quality products and customer service.
R.M. Tool Inc.
Strongsville, OH | 440-238-6459From design to finished product, R.M.Tool is your one stop shop for all of your tube fabrication needs. We provide custom tube fabricating and many other solutions for our clients' needs. Our capabilities include Tube Bending, Bead Rolling, Flaring, Swaging, and Ferrules. Our team strives to exceed customer expectations by always delivering quality products and services.
Tubodyne Company Incorporated
Riverside, RI | 401-438-2540Tubodyne specializes in performing multiple bend tubing for oval, round and square bars and extrusions. Our experience allows us to complete professional technical tube bending, precision helical or serpentine tube coiling and tube end forming services. We also offer in-house tool design for custom items, prototyping and production manufacturing for aerospace and automotive applications.
H & H Tube & Manufacturing Company
Vanderbilt, MI | 989-983-2800H & H offers tube fabricating services such as tube end forming and hydroforming using brass, copper, steel, stainless steel and aluminum. We have been serving various industries for over 70 years and are privately owned. Whether your need standard straight length, bent, or shaped, let our team at H & H help you find what you need.
Custom Tubing - Tube Bending IncorporatedTubing is quite similar to piping, and the names are sometimes used interchangeable, but what makes tubing different is that a tube generally has tighter engineering requirements than a pipe. Custom tubing is, as the name implies, tubing made specifically to fit certain applications and stipulations.
Custom Tubing - Tube Bending IncorporatedThough generally cylindrical, tubing can be fabricated into square, rectangular and irregular shapes. Custom tubing comes in many forms, such as HSS square tubing, heavy wall tubing, welded steel tubing and long steel tubing. Providers may also cut, form and weld fabricated tubing to meet customer needs. They can also customize tubing length.
Metal tubing is often produced using carbon steel, stainless steel or aluminum. A tube manufacturer may choose to begin the process of customizing on a manual tube drawing machine. For medical and defense industries, cold form tube drawing is thought to be the best, as it yields the highest grain structure and tightest tolerances. Non-metal custom tubing comes in the form of plastics. Examples of these plastics are: PVP, polyurethane, nylon, polyethylene, polypropylene hytrel, fluoropolymer, TPR, viton, silicone, latex, butyl and nitrile.
These plastics have innumerable varying strengths and applications in custom tubing. Here is an elaboration on just a few of those listed: PVP tubing offers chemical, corrosion, abrasion and water resistance, and yields a rubber-like flexibility. With excellent flow characteristics and various construction options (ex. wire or braid reinforcement, rigid pipe, unreinforced), it has many applications. Possible applications include, but are not limited to, beverage transfer, chemical processing and transfer, mold coolant lines, dairy processing and filters.
Polyurethane sits apart from most thermoplastics as a material with both good chemical resistance and excellent weathering characteristics. It is an ideal choice for fuel lines. Other applications include abrasive powder transfer, hydraulic control systems, robotics, oxygen and gas lines and granular transfer. Lightweight, extremely flexible, and corrosion and abrasion resistant, nylon tubing works in air conditioning systems, compressed air, paint supply, laboratories and dispensing equipment.
Another major plastic tubing is silicone, which is widely used for medical tubing because it meets standards of cleanliness and non-toxicity. Silicone also lends itself well to electrical jobs, as it generally displays inertness towards U.V., radiation and ozone. It also holds up well against extreme temperature variations. Custom tubing, both metal or non-metal, has applications in virtually every industry, and with so many different materials and fabrication options, it is guaranteed to meet a customer's need.