Steel bending services have got smaller in a big way

The company have now expanded their operations to cover general manipulation services for a wide range of metal tube diameters from 16 to 139.7mm diameter. Rotary draw or mandrel bending production techniques are employed, which can be offered for both standard and non-standard tube sizes. This has opened up opportunities for the production of shop fittings, heat exchangers, signage supports, street furniture, public thoroughfare and barrier systems together with an almost limitless selection of general engineering products. Solid bars up to 90mm diameter can also be manipulated, typically for the production of davit arm fixtures.

Typical 2D bends (bend radius being twice the tube O/D size) can be offered as standard on many tube sizes, with different diameter to bend ratios also possible. In-house machine shop facilities enable the production of new disk/mandrel tooling within three days to accommodate any combinations of tube diameter to wall thickness, as well as special bending radii requirements. With machine clamping employed at each bend operation, low deformation, accurate, multi-directional, multi-plane manipulations can be undertaken.

The company also specialises in lower volume bending, being equally competitive on low volumes (1 to 50 bends), as well as larger contracts involving 400+ bend operations. The rotary draw or mandrel bending production techniques can be combined with cold rolling or induction bending processes where smooth, large radius bends need to incorporate tube manipulated sections to achieve aesthetic effects or typically where barriers are required to negotiate obstacles such as trees, or wrap around the corners of buildings.

Traditionally Angle Ring have offered section bending and plate rolling/forming in metals up to 200mm thick, and the largest beams, channels and columns available. All work is carried out on its single West Midlands site, ensuring bends are kept within tight tolerances and under close quality control. This has included tubes up to 508mm diameter (cold rolling), or 915mm diameter (induction bending). These have been produced for use in architectural structures, construction projects, offshore, civil engineering, power generation and processing industries, together with many general heavy engineering applications.