Fans are installed to provide exhaust, intake or circulation. A common application for angle rings and other curved steel sections is in fan housings. The metal rings serve as structural supports as well as mating flanges to connect to round Read more…
Month: May 2012
George
Bending, Tube Bending
May 22, 2016
Certain projects require bending metal tubing and pipe into a reverse curve that looks like the letter “S” or repeated reverse curves that look like a sine wave. The applications can be for structural steel, for ornamental and miscellaneous metal, Read more…
Joe
Bending, Tube Bending
May 22, 2016
Star architect, Rafael Vinoly, envisioned a spectacular, half-barrel, vaulted skylight 150ft high and 327ft long arching over the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. To help make this dream a reality, Chicago Metal Rolled Products curved 292 pieces of 5 Read more…
Kevin
Bending, Pipe Bending
May 22, 2016
Tank manufacturers at times require that stainless steel half pipe be welded to the outside of their tanks, usually for thermal transfer. For example, recently we had 304 stainless steel, 3” schedule 40 (3.50 OD x 0.216 wall) pipe cut Read more…
George
Bending
May 22, 2016
The bending of steel profiles like angles, bars, beams, channels, tees, pipe and tube, often requires short turn-around times to meet the needs of its customers. Three industrial groups require curving of steel sections: structural steel fabricators, original equipment manufacturers Read more…
Joe
Pipe Bending
May 22, 2016
Pipe and round tubing can be saw-cut or torch-cut in half longitudinally to create half pipe which can be subsequently straightened or curved. The curved half pipe is sometimes welded to the outside or inside of tanks to be used Read more…
Dan
Bending, Pipe Bending
May 22, 2016
The request was for 15ea. 8in outside diameter aluminum pipe rolled to an 83ft 7in center-line radius 15ft long and for 9 more rolled aluminum pipes to a 47ft 11in centerline radius 15 ft. long. And the customer wanted the aluminum Read more…
Dan
Beam Bending, Bending
June 9, 2016
A steel beam can be cambered by rolling it in a three roll bender, by ramming it with a hydraulic cylinder, or by applying heat with a torch. Cambering a steel beam, by any method, will increase its yield and tensile Read more…
George
Uncategorized
May 22, 2016
Everyone recognizes the good that is done when someone does volunteer work, contributes to a charity, helps his neighbor. Some years ago, Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, gave a billion dollars to the U.N. In a television interview, a Read more…
George
Industry News
May 22, 2016
The price of energy including gas is a hot topic these days. Not only does it cost almost $100 to fill up your SUV, but the price of everything processed, manufactured and/or transported (which is about everything) will cost more because Read more…
