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trubogib.ru since 1993

 

ABOUT US
TUBE BENDING MACHINES
TUBE BENDING TOOLS
OTHER PRODUCTS
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The company today

Today our business has become international. Due to problems with raiders and perfect legal insecurity in Russia, we moved most of the production to the EU and Southeast Asia (not to China).

We have also abandoned full in-house production and manufacture many parts by subcontractors around the world. At the same time, on the territories of the sales, we provide both spare parts and service.

People have also been added - now we are working not only with Russians.

We are expanding the range of products, in particular, now we are starting the production of several mass products for the most widespread consumption. And in this work with us people from various countries, from the USA to Singapore.

The customer can always solve his production problems by ordering the equipment and technologies he needs from us. To do this, you just need to discuss your task with us, conclude a transparent contract, and, having paid a decent price, get a wonderful product in any country in the world.

Geography of our deliveries

Our products work in many places and countries.

Here is a map, where arrows emanating from St. Petersburg (where the supplied equipment was produced) indicate the "extreme" points of its operation in different directions.

It is unrealistic to sketch with "circles" the individual places in which it works - half of the map would have been sketched.

A brief history of our company

1993 - 1994

We entered the market in 1993 as a completely independent company in Russia. We have never entered into any concerns or holdings, were not a subsidiary of anyone. Everything we did, we did 100% in the free market with our own skills and efforts.

Our first tube bending machine was made by us in 1994.
A photograph of that time has survived:
The force on the machine shaft is 1.5 tonn*m (15000 N*m).
The drive unit is a rotary hydraulic cylinder of our design and production.

The machine is still in operation. For all the time it was given to us for repairs once.

The next machine was ordered to us immediately after the first machine. We were recommended by our first customer. The force on the shaft of the second machine is 2.5 tonn*m (25000 N*m). This machine already has a full-fledged electronic control of our design (on two microcontrollers).

1995 - Windows-95 and Internet

In 1995, the operating system Windows-95 was released. And we immediately began to make machines that worked under Windows-95 control. Nobody agreed with us. Experts said that they “didn't do it”, that it is “very difficult”, that it “won’t work,” and so on.
But our machines worked, and they worked great.

It is interesting that we probably were the first company in the world, which used the control on industrial equipment via the Internet.
Unfortunately, in those years the Internet was an exotic thing in Russia - so it was unrealistic to persuade all customers to use this technology.

2000...

Around 2000, we started serial production of machine tools. The first serial machine was T-Twin (here are its modern versions). It was a breakthrough - nothing like this was done not only in Russia but in the world in general. The construction of the machine was extremely simple. At the same time, the machine provided ideal bending quality and fantastic productivity; the first models could bend up to four tubes at the same time.

From the very beginning, we have been making fully CNC controlled equipment. That is, all information from buttons, knobs, and pedals was read by our electronics and transmitted to the computer, which was already "in command" of the machine. It was very strange and unusual for that years. From those times, a funny "leaflet" remained - you can read it now..

At the same time (precisely for the design of T-Twin) we developed three completely innovative and unusual design principles. After a successful result, we apply these principles to all developments in mechanics, electronics, and software without exception. We'll write about them - follow our site.

T-Twin has been improved and released continuously to this day. Here are some of his photos:

2010...

By the beginning of 2010, we approached the creation of an already very complex technique.

We created three models of machines - including one completely electric - for bending tubes up to a diameter of 90 mm using the most advanced bending technology at that time, with controlled boosting, which had 17 (!) controlled axes, were integrated with automated tube measuring systems (both contact - FARO, and contactless - AICON). The machines did everything in a fully automatic mode. The operator only had to enter the drawing, the tube into the machine, take out the finished part, put it into the measuring machine, which transmitted the results to the machine. The machine itself analyzed the deviations associated with the spring of the tube and recalculated the entire product in 3D, after which it produced a perfectly bent tube. And everything was done with very high accuracy - on the order of two-hundredths of a millimeter and a degree.

A note for those who are well versed in technological intricacies:
for such work, we lacked a standard model of a tube with a spring coefficient.
Therefore, we developed and introduced a bending model with three independent parameters - and the machines solved the corresponding systems of equations.

We have been and remain primarily an engineering and manufacturing enterprise operating on a free market. And we were absolutely independent. Therefore, we were in rented space - and sometimes we were 'attacked'. At some point, our property was completely seized by government-backed raiders, which led to huge losses and stopping our work for more than a year.

Nevertheless, we were and remain by far the leading enterprise in the former USSR that develops and produces serial machines for bending tubes up to diameter 219 mm. A lot of products are made of bent tubes, which you, reading these lines, can see around you during the day (if you are in Russia), most likely made on our machines.

We seem we were the first in the world to do: vertical winding bending machines, machines for parallel bending of several tubes, machines with a fixed axis of the tube (which has now become the world's "mainstream" in complex bending).

In addition, along the way, we have created a lot of very serious things in various fields, from controller systems and sensors to a production control system unparalleled. When we in about 2014 thought about buying an ERP system from the world's most famous company for our small enterprise it would cost about 500 thousand Euro, we were amazed to see that our system is simpler - and can do much more. It is already doing in our production what this company at that time only declared as theoretically possible prospects.


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