Alan Pickering and Julian Kidger, Unison‘s joint managing directorsScarborough-based
Unison Ltd, the UK-based inventor of all-electric tube manipulation, celebrated its 50th anniversary last week. Established in 1973, Unison is the UK’s leading manufacturer of tube and pipe bending machines and continually innovates the tube and pipe bending marketplace.
The company manufactured the world’s first all-electric tube bender in 1994, followed by the world’s first all-electric multi-stack tube bender, then the world’s largest all-electric tube bender for the shipbuilding industry. Available in single-stack, multi-stack and right/left varieties, Unison machines are delivered to more than 20 countries globally.
Around 100 customers, colleagues, friends and members of the ‘Made In Yorkshire’ trade group attended the event on 24 May, which began with a warm welcome by Unison’s joint managing director, Alan Pickering. Technology talks and machine tool presentations followed which included demonstrations of Unison’s all-electric Breeze range of tube bending machines, as well as fibre laser cutting machines from Unison’s sister company,
Nukon Lasers UK.
Unison’s newly released Opt2Sim Scan hand-held 3-D tube scanning system - the latest addition to the company’s advanced Opt2Sim Suite of tube simulation software - also attracted a great deal of attention. The event concluded with a buffet lunch.
Mr Pickering said: “I’d like to thank everyone who attended and helped make our 50th anniversary celebrations such a resounding success. It was fantastic to meet customers and friends old and new – many of whom had travelled a considerable distance to celebrate with us.”