PRESS RELEASE
July 6, 2006

Custom Tube Products Moves Forward With Bending Technology

Custom Tube Products has taken delivery of and installed a fully automated robotic tube bending system from MiiC America/Opton Corp. Unlike other tube benders, which require either an operator or stand-alone loading and unloading devices, this machine handles all bending, loading, and unloading duties and can be run largely unattended. Parts can be loaded from and unloaded to any location within the robot’s 15’ diameter reach envelope. Full CNC control and 100% electric servo operation allow the machine to achieve extremely fast movements and bending cycles. Custom Tube Products is proud to be the first user of this new technology in the United States.

“This bender will allow Custom Tube Products to move forward with our increased focus on precision, low cost tube assemblies,” states company president David Love. The system is ideal for small diameter tube assemblies such as fuel lines, fluid lines, brake lines, and instrumentation tubes that require 2 or more bends.

“Customer’s can now supply Custom Tube with hand bent samples of their parts and have us record all the geometric data with our new non-contact tube-measuring machine and program the bender from this data. What was often a tedious layout process is now accomplished in as little as 5 minutes,” says Mr. Love.

This significant investment is the latest example of Custom Tube Product’s commitment to best-practice manufacturing and application of automation.

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For more information, contact David Love @ 386-426-0670 x.11 or sales@customtubeproducts.com.

PRESS RELEASE
August 10, 2005

New Equipment Additions

Custom Tube Products has installed several new pieces of equipment in 2005 to increase production efficiency of core products as well as provide capacity for expansion. Areas addressed were deburring of tubular parts and ram end-forming.

"A necessary evil of our manufacturing processes is deburring of tubes following cutting and machining. Because deburring is not a value-added process, we had to streamline this process and remove as much labor from these tasks as possible” stated company president David Love. Automation of this process was accomplished with a new 10 cubic foot vibratory tumbler with a partitioned tub and custom compound metering system and a fully automatic double end tube-chamfering machine. Deburring capacity has increased 300% with no additional labor cost.

In the fabricating department, a new four-hit ram end-forming machine was added in March. This machine allows for high-speed production of complex end forms such as beads, bells, tapers, and asymmetrical shapes. This machine will be used for existing products as well as several new projects currently under development.

For more information, please contact David Love at 386-426-0670 or sales@customtubeproducts.com.