Stainless HVAC tubing can be lower cost!

Orbimatic is assisting ADMS Engineering in pioneering the use of stainless steel tubing for heating, cooling and ventilation systems, benefiting from faster installation and longer life

Orbimatic is assisting ADMS Engineering in pioneering the use of stainless steel tubing for heating, cooling and ventilation systems.

The use of stainless steel pipe offers some obvious advantages over other materials, but it also offers some other advantages which are not normally realised at the front end design stage.

The most common advantage associated with stainless steel is the increase in service life because of its anti-corrosion properties.

But very few seem to be aware of its real advantages.

The main advantage stainless steel offers is that stainless steel can be installed much faster than plain carbon steel or galvanised pipes.

This is because stainless steel can have a much thinner wall thickness than carbon steel pipes, which allows tubes to be transported, manipulated and lifted into place much more easily.

The most common reaction to the suggestion that stainless steel should be used is that it would be too expensive.

But when all of the above is taken into account the use of stainless steel costs the same as carbon steel to install and can in some instances be cheaper to install.

The use of stainless steel is further enhanced the use of high technology equipment such as the automatic orbital welding system supplied by Orbimatic.

The welding process is controlled by a computerised welding power supply which monitors the welding parameters 500 times per second.

The system then makes adjustments to keep the parameters accurate to two decimal places during the entire welding cycle.

ADMS Engineering have also further reduced the installation time with an investment is some high precision pipe working equipment which includes a Georg Fischer pipe cutting machine and lightweight portable welding system.

The pipe cutting machine prepares pipes ready for use in the automatic tube welding system.

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