British firm to make world’s largest all-electric pipe bender

Posted on 29 May 2013 by The Manufacturer

North Yorkshire firm Unison has received an order for an all-electric CNC machine, which it believes will be the largest and most sophisticated all-electric pipe bender ever designed.

The order was placed by American company Newport News Shipbuilding, a supplier of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of two shipbuilders of nuclear-powered submarines for the US Navy. The machine, the first of its type to be built, which will be capable of bending large-bore tubing and piping up to eight inches in diameter. It will extend…

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