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8th February 2010

Source: Unison Ltd

The pioneer of all-electric tube bending machinery, Unison, has announced a new series of tours of engineering companies in the UK that will demonstrate how manufacturers can reap productivity benefits from the precision and flexibility of servomotor-controlled tube bending technology. Four tours are scheduled for February, March, May and July in 2010. Each event will include visits to two advanced tube bending users, plus a tour of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), and a technical tube bending workshop at Unison's facility.

The next tour will include a visit to Ilkley-based Olicana Products, a large metalworking subcontractor which operates extensively in the furniture marketplace. It will allow users to see several different types of all-electric tube benders, including twin head machines and a fully automated 'lights out' cell for high volume production runs that performs automatic tube loading, bending, punching and offloading.

All-electric, servomotor-controlled bending offers a range of advantages compared with traditional hydraulically-powered machinery, including very fast and repeatable set-up that can virtually eliminate scrap, precise and flexible control over the complete bending cycle, and energy savings, says Unison's Alan Pickering. All-electric machines can pay for themselves in weeks, and these tours are designed to demonstrate their capability first-hand - from the perspective of clever users.

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