Month: July 2012


When materials are rather expensive, like stainless steel rectangular tubes, it is often beneficial to the customer to try to utilize each length most efficiently. It is well known throughout the industry that the roller bending process requires extra length Read more…


A customer who prides himself as a provider of technology-based solutions called while working on a design. He required bending a 3 x 3 stainless steel tube to serve two purposes:  as a frame for a tunnel and as a ducting system Read more…


Steel tees up to 22 x 142-1/2 can be curved stem in, stem out or stem up.  At times, however, either the stem is too large or the radius is too tight to roll a tee.  One solution is to Read more…


The problems associated with Rotoform bending of steel pipe have caused major corporations to establish policies which forbid its use. A multi-national conglomerate, major producer of bulk liquid storage tanks with 16,000 employees is at the forefront of this policy. Read more…


Curved steel has literally countless applications. Curved structural steel, curved steel plate and curved steel sheet—all bent by companies that specialize in curving steel sections—typically end up as parts within a larger structure, e.g. a building, or a canopy. Perhaps Read more…


Methods to curve pipe include rotary draw bending with a mandrel on a pipe bender and rolling pipe on a three-roll bender (also called an angle roll, a pyramid roll, or a section bender). For simplicity, let’s call the first Read more…


Bending pipe to a tight radius often requires the use of an internal mandrel to keep the round pipe from becoming oval, wrinkling or cracking during the bending process. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) usually do not have the expertise to Read more…

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