Tube Cutting and Finishing

Special Metal Alloys offer a specialist cutting, finishing and secondary processing service on all of our tube products.

From our UK operation we provide a range of services including:

Metal cutting

  • Material diameters from 1mm to 460mm
  • Wall thicknesses from 0.25mm
  • Cut length tolerances from +/- 0.1mm
  • Facility to straight cut and mitre cut
  • Full range of end-finishing and cleaning options, including vibratory barrel de-burr, brush de-burr, shot blasting, chamfering and washing

Secondry Processing

  • Punching
  • Drilling
  • Slotting
  • End-forming
  • Swaging
  • Pressing
  • Bending

All of our press tools are manufactured in our in-house dedicated tool room. This means that we can build both tools and machinery to carry out a wide variety of tasks to Customer Specific requirements.

Tube manipulations:

  • End-Forming
  • Expansion
  • Reduction
  • Bending
  • Beading
  • Punching
  • Flaring

Additional services

Heat Treatment up to 1000°C maximum.

Minimum mill production quantities may apply.