Tube Fabrication

Judson Smith brings 50+ years of tube fabrication experience to solving customer tube design and manufacturing challenges. Judson Smith not only fabricates tubes using standard “off the shelf” machines and equipment, but also has the unique ability to build custom equipment to automate higher-volume production. This capability minimizes the processing steps required to manufacture complicated tubing shapes and features, and delivers significant per-unit cost savings to our customers.

Judson Smith goes beyond component manufacturing, offering complete welding, assembly, and finishing services for turnkey metal product solutions — creating state-of-the-art metal assemblies for a wide range of end markets, including Medical, Aerospace, Automotive, and Defense.

Processes

• Tube Cutting: Fiber Optic and YAG lasers, ECM (burr free), 4-Slide (shear cut), CNC Swiss lathe (special radius), score (light walls), saw
• Tube Forming: Press (rotary or single station), 4-Slide, swaging, bending, punching, die reducing, custom
• Tube Machining: CNC Swiss lathe, ECG grinder, driller
• Tube Finishing: Bead blasting, bright dipping, tumbling, passivation

Materials

• Aluminum
• Copper & copper alloys
• Brass & brass alloys
• Stainless steel
• Nickel alloys: includes Monel, 42 and 52 alloy, & 29-17 (Kovar®)

Tube Shapes

Fabrication operations to round, rectangular, square, or custom shape tubing include: notching, rounded end, flaring, flatten & piece, beading, slotting, dimpling, lancing, bending, rolled groove, reducing/expanding, and special machining.