Complete Tube/Bar Conversion Full Line Concept Processing Which Includes:

• Receipt of Material
• Off-Mill Annealing
• Cutting
• Swaging (Pointing)
• Pickling/Lubricating
• Cold Drawing
• Pickling/Cleaning
• Annealing
• Straightening
• Cutting
• Inspecting (NDT and/or Visual)
  

Heat Treating:

Open-Roll, Gas-Fired, Roller Hearth Continuous Annealing, Normalizing and Tempering (Capability Low Temperature Tempering Up to 2100°F Austenitizing). Water Spray Quench Option
(Routine for Stainless Steels and Nickel-Based alloys) – (Furnace width 5 ft. x 75 ft. long as five (5) independent zones – 15 feet long each) – Maximum tube diameter 3.000” OD – Lengths up to 90 feet long.

Pickling:

Full pickle line for stainless steel and nickel-base alloy and bar processing to include: deglassing, descaling, pre-cold forming lubricating (oxalate coating and lime coating), post-cold drawing/reducing cleaning, finish white pickling, alkaline (caustic) degreasing, passivation treatments, deiojnized water rinsing, etc. Acids utilized include: cold nitric acid, mixed hot nitric/hydrofluoric acid, hot sulfuric acid, hot caustic permanganate, hot oxalic/boric acid. Water rinsing accompanies acid treatment cycles. Pickle cycles are custom designed for the specific grades and applications. Nickel alloys exclude Monel alloy pickling.

Cold Drawing:

Two (2) triple-stand drawbenches (80,000# and 60,000#).
Bar sizes range from 2.200” start round-to-round
Bar sizes range from 1.655” start round-to-hex (two pass)
Tubes lengths up to 90’
Tube sizes range from 2.625” start, reduction dependent

Tube Reducing (Pilgering):

Two (2) tube reducing machines, one (1) 3-1/2” and one (1) 2-1/2”

Can accommodate maximum up to 4.500” start to a 0.840” finish size
Set-ups are specific to toolage availability, but custom toolage can be purchased depending upon volume requirement justification.

Straightening:

5 Roll 20 SD Sutton Rotary Machine can accommodate up to 5.000” OD tube/4.000” OD bar down to an 0.800” bar. This is a deflection-process straightener.

6 Roll Mack-Hemp Rotary Machine can accommodate a range from 0.200” OD up to 2.000” tube or bar. This is a deflection-process straightener.

Farquhar Hydraulic Punch (Gag) Straightener – Primarily for tubing and smaller bar sizes.

Medart 16 Roll Dual Plane Shape Straightener – Used primarily for Hex Bar Straightening.

OD Belt Polishing:

Two (2) Belt Polishers (#814 and #914 Production Machines) can accommodate a size range from 0.200” OD to 3.000” OD, tube or bar.

Tube ID Blasting: Customer Service

Cutting:

Standard and Abrasive Saw Cutting

Inspection Testing Services:

Non-Destructive Testing to include: Two (2) of Four (4) directional Ultrasonic Testing and Wall Measuring, Ultrasonic Vidigauge Testing, Eddy Current Testing, Hydrostatic Testing, Dye Penetrant Inspection, Borescope or VideoProbe Inspection, Drift Testing, Air Gauging, Air Underwater Testing, Visual/Dimensional Inspection.

Laboratory Services:

Full Metallurgical Testing Laboratory Capabilities