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Mair Research S.P.A.
Mair Research cold drawn tube production and nishing lines in the automotive tube market
30 years ago Mair Research man- ufactured and commissioned its rst automatic integrated n- ishing line for DOM cold drawn tubes. At the time the customer had a pointing machine, cold draw bench and straightener and our task was to integrate this existing equipment with our new downstream nishing consisting of multicut saws to reach nal tube lengths, chamfering, visual inspection, NDT interfacing and packaging and strapping of n- ished tubes in bundles.
In the last 10 years we have designed and manufactured our own cold draw benches, straight- eners and
pointing machines: all with very important and interesting techni- cal features, such as:
THigh productivity and relia- bility
TCustomised line manufac- tured according to the cus- tomer’s needs
TUser friendly equipment with quick adjustments for settings and size changeovers
TPossibility to employ tubes with some straightness devia- tion
Every single machine and every single line can be implemented to comply with Industry 4.0; the entire work cycle and production may be interfaced with the cus- tomer’s MES system.
In the last two years Mair Research has commissioned three complete
integrated Cold Draw Bench and Finishing lines of which two in Europe and one in Mexico.
As a reference example, the fol- lowing are the features of one of these lines:
Tubes to be drawn are special steel grades up to 80 mm diameter for the production of shock absorbers and other automotive products.
The Cold Draw Bench is a 3 tube pull with 40 tons capacity. Drawn tubes will then be processed by the nishing equipment with which it is fully integrated to achieve one seamless line. The end product is a bundle ready for dispatch. All the above equipment was fully designed and manufac- tured by Mair Research is their plants located in Schio, Italy.
Before dispatch the equipment went through a careful in-house testing in presence of the customer.
Since all operations are performed automatically, a very limited amount of operators with sole supervisory tasks are suf cient to conduct the line.
Consequently all operator hazards have been eliminated providing a constantly safe work environment.
Mair Research is specialised in the design, manufacture and supply of nishing lines in general (auto- motive, OCTG, cold drawn DOM, other) having delivered to very important world reference produc- ers in the eld of ERW and seam- less tubes.
MAIR RESEARCH S.P.A.
36015 Schio (Vicenza) Via Lago di Albano 55 Italy
Tel: +39 0445 634 444 Fax: +39 0445 634 409
salesdept@mair-research.com www.mair-research.com
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