Induction Pipe Bending UK is an award winning, ISO 9001 & ISO 17025 accredited company providing a leading service to the offshore, petrochemical, power generation and general pipework industry. Formed in 2005, IPB UK draws upon the extensive experience of its management and staff who have combined have unrivalled experience in the industry.
Our facilities in the North East of England provide a bending capacity from 2" NB through to 30" OD, while we also have the ability to carry out non-destructive and also destructive mechanical testing (in our UKAS approved testing laboratory). Heat treating, finishing and cleaning are also available, should they be required. We believe that our customers deserve a responsive, flexible service, as well as a high quality end product and the staff at IPB UK are always willing to make sure that is exactly what they get.
If you would like more information on our products and services, please don't hesitate to contact us. We would be happy to hear from you and discuss the options that are available in greater depth.
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We are pleased to work with four induction
bending machines – the smallest units bend from 2inch NB through to 12inch NB,
next units bend from 4inch NB through to 20inch NB and the largest units bend
from 8inch NB through to 30inch OD. We can work with a range of materials
including carbon steels, high yield steels, low temperature materials, duplex
and super duplex steels, high chrome materials, stainless steels and various
specialist steels. Alongside our bending services we also provide a range of
other in-house production operations including destructive mechanical testing,
non-destructive testing, cutting, bevelling and chemical cleaning.
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We introduced our own test facility in 2007
and are fully accredited to ISO 17025. Our testing facilities complement our
pipe bending services and can be carried out to various standards including American
ASTM and API, European BS EN and DIN and individual standards such as DEP
31.40.20.33, DNV OS F101 and BP GIS 43-317 and more. Our various testing
processes include tensile testing, impact testing, hardness testing, corrosion
tests on Duplex and stainless steels, macro and micro examinations of metallic
materials, determination of percentage ferrite to ASTM E562 and weld testing.
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To ensure our products are compliant with
specifications we undertake various types of non-destructive testing from
simple wall thickness checks to a series of surveys. Our highly experienced and
qualified team carry out various testing types such as magnetic particle
inspection (standard and fluorescent), liquid penetrant inspection, UT wall
thickness survey, UT straight beam lamination survey, UT shearwave survey, UT longitudinal
seam weld survey and surface hardness survey. We have also built great
relationship with other leading businesses in the industry who we work closely
with to provide additional services such as PMI via non invasive XRF type
technology, ferrite check by Fischer Ferritscope and radiography.
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The process of induction bending pipework can
sometimes alter the mechanical properties due to the heat input. It is
therefore essential in many cases to carry out post bend heat treatment to
restore the products or enhance their mechanical properties. We work closely
with a local sub-contractor to provide various post heat treatment services
including:
- Normalise: usually for carbon steels such as
ASTM A106 or Gr. B, A333 Gr. 6 and API 5L X52.
- Normalise and Temper: usually for materials
containing a higher level of chrome such as ASTM A335 P11 and P22.
- Quench and Temper: usually for high yield
materials such as API 5L X65.
- Solution Anneal: applied to stainless and
duplex steel such as UNS S31803 and UNS S32760.
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