Category: Tube Bending

A common use for curved structural steel is for canopies at the entrance to buildings. Using curved steel such as rectangular or square tubes can provide an aesthetically pleasing look in addition to functionality. Creating a similar structure out of Read more…

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…

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…

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…

A civil engineering student recently inquired about steel tube bending for an algae growing tree.  She first heard of Chicago Metal Rolled Products last fall when its president talked to her Materials of Construction class at the Illinois Institute of Read more…

Aluminum tube bending has helped the military put out the oil refinery fires during the Iraq war.  45 degree elbows formed by mandrel tube bending connect straight tube sections across the desert to transport water. Each aluminum section, either straight Read more…