Forming tubes - Import export

Major players in both the aerospace and nuclear power industries rely on Superior Tube for precision tubing to protect their control systems and instrumentation. Meanwhile, control and measuring devices critical to the safe functioning of nuclear reactors also require our high quality tubes. Within reactor cores, our instrumentation and control tubing encases equipment for monitoring various factors such as pressure, temperature, density differences and fuel burn up rates. It’s an extremely demanding environment where durability and reliability are absolutely critical. Superior Tube supplies instrumentation tubing in straight and coiled tube forms. The most common materials used are special grades of stainless steel and nickel alloys. Superior currently produces instrumentation tubing from up to 1.5” in outside diameter down to less than .020” OD. Please note that we have a minimum order value of £10,000.

The welding process is one of the core ways in which we manufacture precision tubes. Our high-quality tubing starts off as a flat strip of metal. The strip is formed into a tube through a series of rollers and the join, also called the seam, is then welded together. Welded Processes Special non-destructive testing methods – including eddy current, ultrasonic and pressure testing - are used to ensure a consistent weld. Just like with seamless manufacturing, welded tubes can be drawn down by plug drawing or sinking. This method can be used to create very long lengths of coiled tube, these can also be measured during coiling using a laser measurement. The main welded tube manufacturing processes used are strip welding and cold drawing, but other important processes in between, or at the end of the drawing process, include Please note that we have a minimum order value of £10,000.