We offer our clients in the aerospace, automotive, biotech, medical, and military industries the best in tube manufacturing technology. We feature all the leading tube drawing methods, including tube sinking, stationary, floating, semi-floating plug drawing, pilger, and drawn over mandrel. You are no longer restricted to the industry standard tempers of annealed, 1/8 hard, 1/2 hard, and full hard. We offer custom tempers, sizes and surface finishes, all while maintaining the highest levels of precision during every step of the process. All of our dies and mandrels are custom manufactured on site, so you can be sure all of the tools we use are held to our high standards of excellence.
Our facility allows us to create tubing in a large number of sizes, tempers, tolerances, shapes, and surface finishes. We assess every project on an individual basis to decide which of our various techniques will produce the best product based on your specific requirements. From start to finish, the drawing of your tubes is uniquely yours.
Our flexibility with using both imperial and metric units makes things more flexible on our clients’ end as well. No matter what industry you are in, we can manufacture tubes to your specifications without any difficulty.
Tube Methods’ extensive testing processes, which include both destructive and non-destructive testing, make sure that your tubing will be drawn to meet or exceed your industry’s toughest standards and specifications.
If you want to learn more about our tube drawing capabilities, please see the details below or contact one of Tube Methods’ knowledgeable representatives.
Drawing Method | Computer-Numerically Controlled (CNC) Machines Hydroforming Tube Sinking Pilger Stationary Mandrel (Fixed Plug) Drawing Floating Mandrel (Floating Plug) Drawing Semi-Floating Mandrel (Tethered Plug) Drawing Drawn over Mandrel |
Alloys | 20 188 200 201 214 230 304 304-L 310 316 316-H 316-L 316-LVM 317-L 347H 321 347 403 410 430 446 600 601 625 718 800-HT 825 902 904-L 4130 A-286 B3 C-2000 C-22 C-276 Hastelloy X HR-160 IN-102 K-MONEL L-605 Monel 400 MP35N NITI X-750 |
Tempers | Annealed 1/8 Hard 1/4 Hard 1/2 Hard Full Hard Custom tempers available to achieve special tensile strength, yield strength, elongation, or mechanical properties over a specified range. |
Body Cross Section | Elliptical Flat Oval Round Square ID and/or OD Shaped All shapes can be stepped |
Fabrication Features | Burrless Cutting Chamfer Flare Electrolytic Cutting EDM CNC Machining End Forming Punched Hydro Forming Flanging High Pressure High Purity Sanitary |
Environmental Properties | Corrosion Resistance Electrical Resistance Moisture Resistance Rust Resistance |
Production Volume | Units 1 - 1,000,000 Specialty Production Shop Prototype Low Volume Small Run High Volume Large Run Long Run |
Tool Room | Manufacture all dies and mandrels In-house tool makers Grinding Wire EDM Die Sink EDM CNC machining |
Destructive Testing | Carbon Content Chemistry Elongation Flange Flare Flatten Grain Size Micro Hardness Microstructure Rockwell Tensile Test Ultimate Strength Yield Strength |
Non-Destructive Testing | Borescope Chemistry Verification Cleanliness CMM Concentricity Eccentricity Eddy Current Fluid Dye Penetrant Heidenhain Wall Thickness Hydrostatic Laser Micrometer Liquid Dye Magnetic Particle Penetrant Pneumatic Surface Roughness Permeability Straightness Ultrasonic Wall Run Out |
Additional Services Provided | Brazing Centerless Grinding Cutting Deburring Drilling End Trimming Grinding Laser Cutting Machining Polishing Special Packaging Stenciling Welding |
Industry Focus | Aerospace Automotive Biotech Chemical Chromatography Environmental Heavy Equipment Laboratory Equipment Medical Military Pharmaceutical Semiconductor |
Industry Standards | ANSI AS ASME ASTM ISO Mil-T Spec NIST AMS GE LCS Pratt Whitney |
File Formats | AutoCAD (DWG, DWZ) BMP DXF GIF IGES JPG/JPEG PDES Pro-E or Pro/Engineer (DRW, PRT, XPR) SolidWorks (SLDPRT, SLDDRW, SLDDRT) STEP TIFF |
Read more about our size limits, tolerances, inspection methods, and additional standards (eccentricity, straightness, surface roughness, tempers, and shapes).