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FIVES NORDON
INDUCTION BENDING
MASTERY OF THE BENDING PROCESS: GEOMETRY, METALLURGY AND MECHANICS
Fives' Piping Solutions offering has developed its expertise in hot bending of carbon and stainless steels for 40 years, while constantly improving its performance and technicality.
Fives' Piping Solutions offer has worldwide experience in the prefabrication and assembly of HP, MP, BP piping for the chemical - petrochemical industry, thermal or nuclear power plants and offshore.
Induction bending is one of the essential operations. Thanks to its complete mastery of processes covering all grades of carbon, alloy or stainless steel, Fives has developed its expertise in hot bending by constantly improving its performance and technicality.
CAPACITIES OF THE COJAFEX PB 1000 BENDING MACHINE EQUIPPED WITH THE “START-STOP” SYSTEM
The method provides the possibility of bending welded tubes, seamless tubes, HEB-U profiles or others of all sections, square tubes, etc.
Our method applies to the following materials:
— Carbon steel (API 5L X42-52-60-65-70, P265GH, P295GH...)
— Stainless steel (ASTM A 312 TP 304, 309, 316...), Duplex, SuperDuplex
— Alloy steel (ASTM A 335 Gr P11, P22, P5, P9, P9.1, P9.2, X20, 15CD205, 15Mo3, 15NiCuMo)
— Inconel 625, Incolloy 600H
— Cladded tubes
Abilities | Minimum | Maximum |
Outer diameter (D) | 88.9 mm | 1016 mm |
thickness (e) | 5.5 mm | 100 mm |
Bending angle ( a ) | 0° | 180° |
Bending radius (R) | 250 mm | 5 100 mm |
Tube length | | 12,500 mm |
An integrated control service
Tube inspection upon receipt
Mechanical tests on qualification hangers and witness coupons
Metallurgical checks
Dimensional control on marble
Magnetic particle or penetrant inspection
Ultrasonic control
X-ray control
Hydraulic test up to 10,000 bar
Spectroscopy...
Other services
Supply of mother tubes
Coating
Shot blasting, polishing
Pickling, passivation
Heat treatments (hyperquenching, normalization, tempering, etc.)
Chamfering, boring
Packaging and shipping of finished products
