Copper Pipes
CATEGORY: COPPER PIPES
Uses
Wednesbury Tube supplies copper tube, marked with the world famous ‘Wednesbury Streamline’ brand, for a variety of uses including hot and cold water services, gas and sanitation applications, together with special products such as medical gas tubes and plastic-coated copper tubes.
The tubes are manufactured to European specification EN1057 and supplied in 3 different tempers:
- Half-hard (R250) straight lengths
- Hard (R290) straight lengths
- Soft (R220) coils
Plastic-coated tubes are supplied in 2 different forms:
- Protec plastic-coated tubes have a plain plastic coating which protects the copper against corrosive environments.
- Protec 2000 plastic-coated tubes not only protect against corrosion, they also cut down heat-loss from central-heating and hot water services when they are buried.
The plastic-coating is LDPE (Low Density Polyethylene) which is more environmentally friendly and less toxic than PVC.
Wednesbury supplies medical gas tubes for installation in hospitals, operating theatres and laboratories. Medical gas tubes are specially cleaned to make them suitable for installations in medical gas systems. The tubes are first manufactured to the dimensional and mechanical requirements of BS EN1057. The tube is then solvent degreased. All tube bores are visually inspected, and then blown out with medical quality air. Both tube ends are capped, and each bundle of tubes is wrapped in plastic-sleeving. Identification tape is subsequently applied to the packaging.
Wednesbury also supplies chrome-plated copper tubes for installation where the decorative effect of the chrome-plating is required.
Quality
Wednesbury Tube’s excellent product quality results from both our company’s investment into the latest manufacturing processes coupled with our rigorous product testing procedures.
At every stage of the production process, samples are tested to ensure product quality:
- Incoming raw material is analysed to ensure it meets the required standard then a sample of molten copper is checked for chemical content.
- Billets are examined for surface quality and on the extruded shell concentricity and dimensional checks are carried out.
- Further dimensional checks are adopted at every step of the drawing process through to the final product.
- Every finished length of copper tube is tested to guarantee tube soundness.
- Finally finished tube samples are taken to carry mechanical tests (chemical analysis, tensile strength, hardness, elongation and carbon residuals).
By taking such care in the manufacture of its copper tube, Wednesbury can guarantee excellent product quality!
As a result, Wednesbury Tube hold both the ISO 9001:2008 ‘Quality Management System’ approval and the ISO 14001:2004 ‘Environmental Management System’ approval.
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