STAUFF Tube Bending Centre More than just hydraulics

12 | Title story as is the corrosion protection for the body and compo- nents. All body components are galvanized and the chas- sis is fully sealed – ideal prerequisites for a long service life underground,” confirms Beau McKenna. Stainless steel tubes The objective was to design and implement every detail at this high level. Safescape were accordingly very di- scerning when selecting their service providers. The engineers were impressed by the expertise of Stauff Cor- poration Pty Ltd. inMelbourne. Stauff received the order for ready-to-install, three-dimensionally bent 19 mm tubes withmachined ends, for conveying the coolant to the powerful battery packs. View of the Stauff line production in Unanderra/Australia: high-quality preci- sion machinery at work The tubes bent to individual customer requirements are ready to install. Source: Stauff Source: Stauff Safescape also ordered fully fabricated 28mm tubes for routing the electric cables. Stauff initially manufactured several trial tube sets made of stainless steel that were up to 1.85 mm long and had multiple three-dimensional bends. These tubes are produced at the Australian Stauff headquarters in Unan- derra. The 3D design data from Safescape can be imported di- rectly into the Stauff software for the bending stations and the delivered assemblies meet all requirements. Stauff clamps are used for installing the tubes. After ten test ve- hicles went through rigorous testing in various Australian mines, the Bortana EV has now gone into standard pro- duction: While the current “entry level” produces ten ve- hicles per month, the planned production volume is 100 vehicles per month. The business relationship between Safescape and Stauff is a successful one. The employees at the tube bending centre in Unanderra are ready for more orders. Clamps for supply lines In the Bortana EV, electric cables are guided through tu- bes to protect them against the extreme conditions of the mining environment. In other areas of application with less extreme conditions, more and more line buil- ders rely on Stauff clamps for direct guiding and faste- ning of supply lines such as electric cables, pneumatic hoses and low-pressure hoses. The new Multi-Line clamp type MLC was presented at the two trade fairs Bauma and Innotrans in 2022: These clamps are designed to hold two, three, four or six lines with identical or different diameters and are therefore ideal for easy and secure fastening of different line types. In contrast to standard DIN clamps, which can only be used to attach up to two lines with the same diameter, the- se clamps result in a significantly lower number of indivi- dual parts required for installation. Variants for six lines, for example, require only three screws, while all others need only two. Using fewer components also shortens the installation time while reducing the required installation space. (häu) Custom fabricated tubes From component manufacturer to service provider: The companies in the Stauff Group and their authorised system partners follow this principle to offer machine and plant engineering companies the following services for the processing of tubes, in particular for (but not limited to) mobile and industrial hydraulics: machine controlled and monitored bending of seamless preci- sion tubes made from standard steel (Zistaplex, Zista Seal, gal- vanised, phosphated, untreated), stainless steel, copper and various special materials in all common metric tube diameters and wall thicknesses, up to six metres long, machine controlled and monitored assembly of cutting rings and union nuts, tube end forming with Stauff Form and other common systems, inductive soldering, Cu hard soldering as well as WIG, MIG and MAG for welding non-positive connections, testing in line with standards or customer specifications, cleaning of lines to achieve specific cleanliness levels and specifi- cations as well as sealing and protecting the tube ends and other connections. INFO