A Birmingham tube-end-forming company has expanded its range of capabilities to cover the forming of micro tubing with the aim of attracting customers from new market sectors.
Smethwick-based Techniswage (
www.techniswage.co.uk) spent six months developing the new process and building a dedicated area in its factory for small-parts production.
Company director Paul Fellows said: “Swaging is a forming operation used to reduce the outside and inside diameter of a tube; and while we have always undertaken micro forming work, which we class as working on tubes below 3mm in diameter, we have never done so in an official capacity.
“Looking to the future, we can see there is growth potential in the medical, electronics and nuclear markets, which is why we decided to invest in a dedicated area to develop an organised, clean and efficient process that meets the exacting requirements of these market sectors.
“Techniswage can form micro tubes out of most metals, including copper, brass, stainless steel and mild steel, manipulating tube as small as 1mm in diameter and reducing it to just 0.2mm in diameter by hydraulic and rotary methods.”