Scarborough-based
Unison Ltd, a leading manufacturer of tube- and pipe-bending machines, will be presenting several new products at
MACH 2022 (Hall 6, Stand 630) designed to help manufacturers and sub-contractors enhance their efficiency and productivity as demand returns to pre-pandemic levels. The event will take place from 4-8 April at the NEC, Birmingham.
On display, and under power, will be an all-electric Unison Breeze 16mm (maximum tube diameter) multi-stack tube-bending machine equipped with the company’s newly upgraded Unibend control — an operating system that provides speed enhancements of about 25% when bending at full power.
There will also be a Unison EvBend 1000, a high-precision machine developed to reduce the entry cost to precision rotary-draw tube-bending by combining manually operated feed, tube rotation and bending force, with CNC-based braking on the carriage feed, rotation and bend arm axes. Ideal for prototypes and one-offs, the EvBend 1000 is widely used in the Formula One and aerospace industries.
Meanwhile, for organisations that do not typically require the high levels of versatility and rapid set-up times offered by Unison’s Breeze range, there will be the opportunity to see Unison’s newly launched range of Synergy HBM (hybrid, multi-stack) range of machines.
Currently available in 50 and 80mm versions, Unison’s new Synergy hybrid range combines electric and hydraulic operation. Just like Unison Breeze machines, each model benefits from ‘exceptional power and rigid mechanical design’; and as with Breeze models, bend arm, carriage, plane of bend and carriage side shift are servo driven, while mandrel, pressure die and clamping system are hydraulically controlled.
This allows Synergy machines to undertake high-volume, repetitive tube manipulation operations that do not require the rapid set-up times and all-electric control provided by Breeze machines.
Alan Pickering, Unison’s joint managing director, said: “We know from speaking to our UK customer base that confidence is back in manufacturing. Through significant control system upgrades to our all-electric Breeze models, and our new lower-priced Synergy range of hybrid tube bending machines, we are offering manufacturers — whatever their tube-bending requirements — the most comprehensive range of high-quality options.”
Unison offers more than 30 all-electric tube- and pipe-bending machines for diameters ranging from 4 to 275mm; and with all-electric control they provide for right-first-time repeat sub-contract work, or ongoing correct parts immediately after producing a single trial part.