ERW welded tube plants

Tube and pipe making

Tube welding lines for
tubes up to 26“

Available to you from SMS group are all core machines for producing electric resistant welded (ERW) tubes. These flexible plants cover product diameters ranging from 10 mm to 660 mm with variable wall thicknesses. Whether you manufacture welded tubes for the automotive sector, for the oil and gas industries, or for architecture - tube welding plants from SMS group are precisely tailored to the individual requirements of your end products.

Processes

The right process designed to your exact requirements

Individual components for tube welding lines

SMS group ERW tube welding lines come with a whole series of unique features that permanently improve output and quality. Take for instance our highly rigid URD^® (Uniform Rigid Design) stands for precise tube forming, CSS Quicksetting^® system (Computerized Setting System) with automatic mill setting for super-fast product changes, or rapid roll change systems for shortest non-productive and turnaround times.

Raw material

Coiled steel strip
Yield strength up to 800 N/mm²

Strip preparation

Coil magazine and coil car
Uncoiler
Coil opener unit with coil peeler
Combined pinch roll unit/strip leveller
Shear/end welder (MAG) with integrated crop shear
Strip accumulator
Strip edge millers

Forming and welding

Strip entry guides
Breakdown and idle stands
Strip edge bending stands
Straightedge forming equipment
URD^® fin-pass and squeeze stands
HF welding generator (SMS Elotherm)
Inside and outside scarfers
MF seam annealing units (SMS Elotherm)

Sizing, forming and cutting

Detwisting stands
URD^® sizing and shaping stands
Universal and straightening Turk's heads
Cambering stands
Travelling tube cut-off units

Finishing

Inside flash flushing stations
Straightening machines
Pipe end facing and chamfering unit
Threading machines
Hydrostatic pipe testers
Data identification systems (AMS)
Bundling stations and transfer systems

Products

Tubes with diameters of between 10 mm and 660 mm and wall thicknesses of between 0.7 mm and 25.4 mm

High precision tubes for the automotive and mechanical engineering sectors
Line pipes, casings, tubings and drill pipes for the OCTG sector
Structural tubes and pipes with round, square and rectangular cross-sections

Technology

Everything from one source

Also available to you from SMS group are all core machines for producing ERW welded tubes. These flexible plants cover product diameters ranging from 10 mm to 660 mm with wall thicknesses between 0.7mm and 25.4 mm.

More Information

URD^® rolling and squeeze stands for high-precision manufacturing
URD^® design stands

SMS group has developed its URD^® (Uniform Rigid Design) principle for fin-pass, squeeze, and sizing stands.

Fast changing times
Rapid-change system

SMS group has created an innovative integrated design for the shortest possible changeover times in ERW tube welding lines. At the core of this concept is our CSS Quicksetting^® system (Computerized Setting System).