Production flow - from billet to high tech seamless pipe.

The production flow video shows the transformation of a billet into one of our high tech seamless pipes, starting with the raw material through to the end product in order to provide our customers with customized seamless tubular products and innovative solutions with excellent durability and low life cycle costs.

We transform a massive steel billet into a tube in three forming steps:
- cross roll piercer
- push bench
- stretch reducing mill

A tight network of testing and control equipment assures that the required production parameters are met.

[seventhson]

I used to work in a mill in the US that made this kind of pipe. The process was a bit different, but many of the steps are certainly recognizable. Walking through the doors of the plant was like walking 40 years back in time.

[SwissplWatches]

That is so incredible! Elements we take for granted every day require so many steps and research / development. Impressive!

[johnroberts]

I used to perform field service on industrial infrared pyrometers. I saw this very process at a plant in Youngstown, OH. Very cool. They also had a steel smelter which made the billets. I wandered all over the place.

[HaraldFinster]

Very nice and instructive video. Good to see that you concentrate on the actual processing details and explain it in a clear and factual manner. This makes a nice difference to the usual emotional and dramatizing style.
It would have been nice to see the initial piercing process ("Mannesmann process") in more detail. I am aware that it is hard to capture this on camera.

[catxnc]

beautiful setting for a plant. saw no humans performing any repetitive tasks. nice.

[jrfutube]

As a mechanical engineer, I can appreciate the magnitude of "metallurgy" involved in producing different tubes for different applications ⚙

[-_-----]

Damn, this is cool. I love how thorough and efficient the Quality Assurance processes are... and how some diligent, common-sense steps can transform an otherwise 'commodity' item (boring, simple pipe) into a highly-refined, individually-verified premium product. Modern industry is really a beautiful thing.

[marbleman]

Back in the 1980's through the 1990's, I worked in a small manufacturing shop where we made gym equipment. One of my jobs was making a weight lifting bar that is used in competitions. The shaft was a special steel called ETD150..Elevated Temperature Drawn. The shaft started as a larger diameter and while the steel was still red hot, it was drawn through a smaller diameter device which compressed the red hot steel down to a predetermined diameter. It also had a very specific 'recipe' of various chemicals which gave the shaft a specific performance requirement, such as being able to put up to 500lbs of weights on both sides that will cause the bar to bend but come back straight once the weights are removed. The chemical make up of the bar also gave the bar certain machining characteristics.

Over the approximate 18 years that I worked there, I made several tens of thousands of bars.

[jimsvideos]

Remarkable; thank you for the detail and first-class production quality of this film.

[deviceone]

the narration is so good I could use this as a bedtime story

[mdeasy]

Very impressive!!! Seamless tubing is not a trivial process! Voestalpine is a serious operation!

[tymz-r-achangin]

Thank you. Very nicely detailed video! Was very interesting to watch and listen to the narrations for the steps versus those annoying uploaders who edit in stupid music over the original audio file, and then we cant hear the actual sounds of the machinery, processes, etc

[martinkrehl]

Great! The description is surprisingly detailed. Excellent stuff.

[toddavis]

Love those threaded OCTG pipes for oil rigs.

[radiofun]

Beautiful and very informative docu. Keep up this good work, 25 dec 2022.

[KingElmo]

Super Video 👍🏻 This is high tech tubing!

[jsweizston]

This video is very well produced. On a side note I'm glad I'm not a maintenance guy at this shop, the PM list must be like 200 miles long.

[d.jensen]

Very nice production, very nice setting!

[wdobni]

these guys mean must have commercial oil and gas drilling business cornered

[divermike]

I'm curious how the reeler rolls expand the hollow so that the mandrel bar can be removed.