NEWS ________________________________

Some recent Proto-1 innovations:

- Swaging tubes from 7 inch to 5 inch diameter.

- Progressive offset tube expansions to 200% of diameter.

- Rotary forming of tube flare & bead up to 15 inch    diameter.

- Simple & cost effective notching machine.

- Expand/bend/bead and pinch trim to length in one setup.

- Single minute exchange of dies (SMED).

- Small tube cutoff up to tangent of bend.

- 6 inch deep sizer.

- A new debur head for beaded tube deburring.
 

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