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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.
Tube Fabrication - Woolf Aircraft Products, Inc.Fabricating is not the forming of tubing from raw materials, but rather includes: annealing, flattening, coating, buffing, sizing, welding, notching, piercing etc existing tubing to meet specific needs. These highly specialized processes require specialized equipment, especially as tubing is often a crucial component of an operation. Tubing is a common feature in many different fields and choosing a particular type includes considering factors such as dimension, performance, opacity, strength.
Consumer items such as steel handrails, bars, bicycle frames, tent frames, displays and furniture use tubing. Industrial and manufacturing industries use hydraulic pipes in applications such as automotive fuel lines, exhaust pipes, hydraulic cylinders, and shell and tube heat exchangers.
Other examples of tubing formed include floor flanges and pipe elbows. Plumbing, engines, machinery, fluid transportation, HVAC processes are all further examples of areas in which tube is an important part and a further reason why precision fabrication is a valuable focus of tube manufacturers.
Types of machinery used in the process of tube fabricating use tube benders, mandrels for mandrel bending and tube swaging machines. These all require skilled engineers, operators and may require the assistance of CNC machines and CAD drawings. Tubing is often required to be very specific lengths and dimensions, and therefore using computerized equipment helps to eliminate human error and wastage. Cutting may include notching, punching or drilling.
Flaring and swaging are both cold working processes which expand the diameter of a certain length of tube or pipe, usually to make it capable of connecting with another tube. Hydraulic applications use tubing for a number of processes and it is important for the adjoining tubes to seal tightly to prevent escaping of air or pressure. Tube and pipe bending can be done by hand but is more often done by semi-automated and automated equipment which is faster and more precise than manual bending.
Using a mandrel prevents wrinkles on the interior of the tube around bends and corners and improves the overall quality of flow through the tubing. Tube rolling is the process of producing tubular parts through heat curing materials around a circular mold.