Exhaustive work pays off for tube bending firm

With the demand for lightweight exhaust systems to help to make vehicles more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly, exhaust system components have come under a great deal of scrutiny.

In response to the demand for accuracy and materials efficiency, AddisonMcKee has been demonstrating to manufacturers and OEMs how tube bending and endforming technologies can help them achieve significant cost savings. Bending tubes with thinner walls and tighter radii using challenging materials is a speciality of the company For example, recently AddisonMcKee demonstrated to a truck exhaust manufacturer how component manufacture could be speeded up by 30% through investment in models from its DataBend range.

A series of like-for-like trials also showed the high levels of accuracy, reliability and repeatability that the company's technology can bring.