Techniswage adds micro tube end forming

A Birmingham tube end forming company has expanded its range of capabilities to cover micro tube end forming.

Techniswage has spent six months developing the process and has consequently built a dedicated small parts factory floor area with new control systems.

Paul Fellows, director at Techniswage, said: “Swaging is a forming operation used to reduce the outside and inside diameter of a tube. And although we have always undertaken micro forming work, which we class as working on tubes below a 3mm diameter, we have never done so in an official capacity. 

“Looking to the future we can see there is growth potential with the medical, electronics and nuclear markets and as such we made the decision to invest in a dedicated area to develop an organised, clean and efficient process which meets the exacting requirements of these market sectors.”

Techniswage can form micro tubes out of most metals including copper, brass, stainless or mild steel and manipulate tubes as small as 1mm in diameter and reduce tubes to just 0.2mm in diameter by means of hydraulic and rotary methods.

Micro tubes are often components parts and can be used in blood testing needles, to meat probes, to throttle linkage pins for jet engines.

Fellows said: “We believe that having this dedicated area demonstrates our commitment to working to the highest of standards within micro tube end forming.”