FABTECH 2023 Chicago proved to be a big success for Scarborough-based
Unison Ltd, the inventor of all-electric tube manipulation, and its North American division, Unison Tube LLC. Over the course of the four-day event held earlier this month, the tube and pipe bending machinery manufacturer secured a significant number of high quality enquiries.
Paul Krickeberg, Sharpe Products’ CEO, one of North America’s leading specialists in custom tube and pipe bending and tube laser cutting, also visited Unison’s show booth to view the all-electric Unison Breeze CNC tube bender that would soon be on its way to his company. The machine purchased by Sharpe Products - a 100mm ingle-stack Breeze model - formed the centrepiece of Unison’s
display. It is the ninth Unison Breeze to be bought by Sharpe Products since 2003, and will be used to provide additional capacity for bending tubular components for the business’s extensive customer base.
Stuart Singleton, VP of Unison Tube LLC, said: “We are absolutely delighted that Sharpe Products has chosen to purchase yet another Unison Breeze all-electric tube bending machine. As you can imagine, such impressive repeat orders are an incredible testimony to the faith a customer places in our machine tool technologies, operating software and product support.”
Unison invented ultra-precise, all-electric tube and pipe bending, and the Breeze 100mm machine is one of its flagship models and offers rapid set-up, fast tool changes, exceptional power, rigid mechanical design, and all-electric control for right-first-time repeat sub-contract work, or immediately after producing a single trial part. These are attributes that Unison believes make its Breeze models the ultimate tube manipulation machines for businesses specialising in frequently changing, small-to-medium batch production runs.
Other highlights for Unison during
FABTECH 2023 included the considerable interest shown in its EvBend range of manually-operated, CNC-controlled three-axis tube-bending machines. Typically used for low-volume, high-accuracy production and prototyping, Unison EvBend machines provide accurate multi-plane bending at a much lower cost than many CNC benders.
Two models are currently available – the EvBend 1000 for bending tube of up to 16mm in diameter, and the EvBend 2000, a machine featuring power-assisted operation and capable of bending tube of up to 50mm in diameter. Unison EvBend machines are widely used across the aerospace and motorsport sectors for bending precision components.