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Tubeworking: bending, cutting-off, profiling and end working
News Release from: BLM-Group UK | Subject: Tube cutting and profiling, bending, end forming
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 June 2006
Tube cutting and profiling, bending, end
forming
Visitors to BLM UK's stand at MACH 2006 were treated to a display of high technology tube cutting and profiling, bending and end forming equipment.
Visitors to BLM UK's stand at MACH 2006 were treated to a display of high technology tube cutting and profiling, bending and end forming equipment that, in the words of Paul Lake, Managing Director, offers the means to keep UK manufacturing alive and well "A MACH exhibition provides the ideal opportunity to highlight the productivity improvements that can be achieved with sensible and sustained capital investment," says Mr Lake
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"This time round we have again been able to demonstrate to a wider audience that it is possible to counter the challenge posed by the cheap labour cost of a global marketplace by streamlining the production process, improving component quality and reducing overheads.
In fact, among the many visitors to the BLM stand we were delighted to welcome UK customers who have faced up to the challenge and succeeded in growing their businesses despite increasing competition from China, India and Eastern Europe." The ADIGE LT712D CNC Laser Tube Cutting System, for example, contributes up to 70 per cent cost reductions because it combines several previously separate traditional tube machining processes into a single cycle.
Similarly, the precise controllability of the new BLM E-TURN all-electric CNC tube bender's 12 axes combined with the advanced VGP3D programming software provides significant reductions in set-up times while enhancing accuracy and repeatability.
According to Paul Lake, these high performance machines and other innovations such as the all-electric AST ELE CNC tube and forming machine also shown at MACH 2006 are indicative of BLM's continuing commitment to R and D, currently running at 5 per cent of group turnover.
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