Pipe, extrusion, or solid passes through a series of rollers that press the pipe altering the bend radius.Ĭontact us today to discuss your tube bending needs. It is often used in pipe coils and truss systems since there is very little cross section deformation. Manufactured to your specs, Triad’s customers’ benefit from their turnkey capabilities and secondary operations, to produce both individual components and complex assemblies. Triad specializes in custom tube bending and forming in medium run quantities of 100 to 1000, with most tooling up to 1 in diameter. This method of bending is quite successful. Tube Bending and Forming Services for OEM Applications. This technique is the most popular method for bending tube, pipe and solids. The first part creates the shape, the second part pushes the material into the die. Rotary draw bending, also known as RDB, uses tooling which has a constant center line radius (CLR). Tubes can be straight, round, square or rectangular. At Redline, we take great care during the bending process to avoid wrinkling and breaking the tube by using mandrels (a steel support rod placed inside the tube while it is being bent). Merge Manufacturing offers concept to completion manufacturing with a broad range of manufacturing capabilities, including metalforming, tube bending, rolling, contract welding, saw cutting and miscellaneous part assembly. Often used on cold pipes and tubing, press bending uses a die in the shape of the bend which is then pressed against the pipe to shape the bend. We have computer programmable electric driven tube bending machines with a capacity of 3" diameter 1/4" wall at 180°. At Redline, we perform both the heat supported and cold forming tube bending procedures. Simply stated, tube bending is a method to permanently form pipes or tubes.