Fourth Unison Bending Machine for Leading
Aircraft Component Manufacturer
World-leading aircraft component manufacturer, Globe
Engineering, has installed a fourth Unison all-electric CNC
tube bending machine at its facility in Wichita, Kansas.
Commissioned earlier this year, the new
machine has joined Globe’s existing Unison
all-electric tube benders at the Wichita site and
will help to increase manufacturing capability
significantly. With overlapping capacities, the
Unison tube bending machines at Globe can
bend tubes from 1.25” (31.75mm) to 6.00”
(152.4mm) in diameter – all with the highest
levels of repeatability and accuracy.
In addition to supporting Globe’s ongoing
requirements for bending high quality aircraft
tubing, the new all-electric CNC tube bender from
Unison will be used to bend a range of aluminium,
stainless steel and titanium tubes measuring up to
1.25” (31.75mm) in diameter. Before investing in
this latest machine from UK-based Unison, Globe
had just one tube bending machine that was capable
of bending stainless and titanium tubes from 5/8” to
1.00” diameter.
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“We aren’t just creating new capability by buying
a new Unison tube bending machine,” explains
Bend Shop Supervisor Shaun Knuth. “We’re
creating capacity and a safety net, in case we have a
breakdown.”
Describing some of the key advantages that Unison
all-electric tube benders have over hydraulic tube
benders, he adds: “They’re more efficient because
they use less energy. In fact, they only use energy
while they are in motion. By comparison, the
hydraulic benders use electricity all the time they
are running, with their energy usage increasing
during cycle time. Electric machines are much quieter
too. Our Unison all-electric tube benders also offer
greater repeatability. You simply select the exact
pressure you need; if you want 1,272 psi of pressure,
you just type that in, and the machine creates exactly
the same pressure every time.”