At the Southern Manufacturing exhibition in Farnborough earlier this month, Unison presented the capabilities of its full range of all-electric and hybrid-electric tube bending machines, along with technologies from the wider Unison family.
Unison offers all-electric benders for tube diameters from 4 to 275 mm.Available in single-stack, multi-stack, left/right, pinball and twin-head versions, the machines provide rapid, automatic set-up, fast tooling changes and right-first-time repeatability.
Unison’s hybrid-electric, dual-stack machines were developed to make the company’s quality and reliability accessible to even more businesses involved in tube manipulation. 50 mm and 80 mm maximum tube diameter hybrid models are available.
On show and operational at Southern Manufacturingwas one of Unison’s EvBend 1000 manually operated, CNC-controlled tube bending machines.Designed for low-volume, high-accuracy production and prototyping, Unison says that its EvBend models are used across aerospace and MRO, Formula 1, and the oil and gas industry, where they provide three-axis mandrel, multi-plane bending at a fraction of the cost of fully automated machines.
In addition to the EvBend 1000, which is designed for bending tube of up to 16 mm in diameter (22 mm in copper), a larger machine, the EvBend 2000, is also available.Built to bend tube of up to 50 mm in diameter, its bending function is servo-assisted. Both EvBend machines feature a 15-inch PC-based touchscreen controlled by a CNC that is capable of processing up to 100 bends per component, storing infinite parts and connecting to both CAD and most tube measuring systems.
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