Tube Swaging Presses
Tube Swaging and Pipe Swaging Presses
Precise dimensional control and enhanced tube end formation quality.
Macrodyne heavy-duty tube and pipe swaging presses handle a wide range of forming applications, each optimized for the exact upsetting shape you require,
Your swaging press can perform diameter reduction, expansion, calibration, pointing, and tube-end closing. Multiple forming operations can run within the same clamping cycle for greater efficiency.
Macrodyne swaging presses are trusted across automotive, aerospace, energy, and industrial sectors for their accuracy and repeatability
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Tube Swaging and Pipe Swaging Presses
Precise dimensional control and enhanced tube end formation quality.
Macrodyne heavy-duty tube and pipe swaging presses handle a wide range of forming applications, each optimized for the exact upsetting shape you require,
Your swaging press can perform diameter reduction, expansion, calibration, pointing, and tube-end closing. Multiple forming operations can run within the same clamping cycle for greater efficiency.
Macrodyne swaging presses are trusted across automotive, aerospace, energy, and industrial sectors for their accuracy and repeatability
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What is Upsetting in Forging?
Specific to tube swaging and pipe swaging, upsetting in forging is a process that involves compressing the end of a tube to make it thicker and wider. The heated tube end is squeezed between dies, causing it to “upset” or “bulge” outward. This operation increases the wall thickness and diameter at specific locations, commonly used to form tube connections, flanges, and reinforced sections.
Custom Swaging Pipe Presses for Hydroformed Tubes
Each heavy-duty hydraulic or servo Macrodyne press is custom-designed for your unique application. Our custom swaging pipe presses for hydroformed tubes can be provided in vertical, horizontal and inclined orientations, and optimized to any run volume from high-volume production to small-scale batches.
Macrodyne Tube Hydroforming Press Features and Benefits
Enjoy a wide variety of unique features and benefits with your custom Macrodyne tube hydroforming press
Rigid Press Structures
Rigid Press Structures, including deep slides with high width-to-height ratios to accommodate the forces generated during a wide variety of metalforming applications. Designs are optimized using finite element analysis (FEA), resulting in increased part quality consistency through minimal deflection of the press frame and dies.
Advanced Press Controls
Advanced Press Controls provide precise control of bolster motion and feature multi-step profiling, including speed control, and pressure control with variable ramp rates between profiles to allow for highly configurable process control.
Accumulator Drive Packages
Accumulator Drive Packages are available when ultra-high pressing speeds are required. These packages are fully programmable and can be selected based on pre-stored part parameters.
Induction Furnaces
Induction Furnaces can be integrated with the main press controls for pre-heating billets prior to extrusion or heat-treating after forming.
Part Temperature Control Packages
Part Temperature Control Packages ensure billet temperatures are within the specified range required. These packages are also typically provided with billet temperature reject chutes for billets that do not meet process requirements.
Automated Tubular/Billet Handling Systems
Automated Tubular/Billet Handling Systems can be supplied to receive, stage and feed raw billets through an induction heater and onto the press feeder. The press feeder then places each billet at the entrance to the heating container in the press on demand.
Slug Pushers & Scrap Conveyors
Slug Pushers & Scrap Conveyors can remove slugs and scrap material from the press, enhancing the process flow while reducing cycle times.
Die and Bed Plate Changing Systems
Die and Bed Plate Changing Systems are available for rapid and safe changing of dies. These are customizable and are available in a variety of configurations.
High-Ratio Guiding Systems
High-Ratio Guiding Systems are available with an automatic centralized grease lubrication package to provide precision guiding, parallel slide motion and enhanced eccentric load capacity.
Energy-Efficient Hydraulic Drive Packages
Energy-Efficient Hydraulic Drive Packages featuring proportional flow control pumps and variable frequency drives can reduce energy consumption by up to 70% compared to conventional hydraulic drive packages.
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Automation Solutions for Upsetting Swaging Presses
Our upsetting swaging presses can be developed as standalone units or as part of a complete automated system for:
- Tube and pipe upsetting
- Tube and pipe swaging
- Tube and pipe extrusion
As manufacturing automation specialists, we can provide a full turnkey solution customized to your unique needs and budget. We offer a wide variety of automation innovations, including:
- Automatic loading tables – stage parts quickly for continuous operation
- Tube handling systems – unload parts efficiently and safely
- Transfer systems & robots – automate handling between press stations
- Automatic clamping systems – secure workpieces for accuracy and speed
- Conveyor systems – streamline material movement
- Manipulators – position and rotate tubes for complex forming
- Sliding tables – simplify die access and changeovers
