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Business Challenge: Frequently, companies mill or drill holes or notches in tubing. These are time-consuming and expensive processes that can also lead to frequent downtime from tooling breakage. Plus, milling and drilling create chips that can contaminate your parts and work area.

  • Would you like to tool up faster, set up faster, and process tubing faster for less money than you can with your current methods?

Your UniPunch Alternative: UniPunch has several standard styles of unitized press tooling that can be used to punch holes in tubing. There are units that can punch holes on one side only, units to punch both sides simultaneously, and units to punch holes in both sides from one side. Learn more …

UniPunch tooling is not limited to round holes—you can punch holes and/or slots of all shapes and sizes. And UniPunch units can be used together to punch multiple holes in one hit. And punching produces simple slugs, which minimizes the risk of part contamination.

In addition to our standard hole punching units, UniPunch can supply custom units to notch, cut-off, or cope your tubing. Custom units can accommodate no-distortion punching and off center holes.

How It Works: UniPunch tooling is a system of standardized components that can be assembled into dedicated quick change setups that are ready whenever there is a demand for the part.

For punching and notching your recurring parts, dedicated setups of versatile UniPunch unitized press tooling are a “silver bullet” delivering both short set up times and the productivity of making many holes at once. Plus you retain the predictable productivity of stamping from a reusable tooling investment.

You achieve fast exchange of dies minimizing set up time and maximizing production run time. The UniPunch system is flexible, and the quick change capability of dedicated setups is perfectly aligned with today’s lean manufacturing practice of producing smaller and smaller lots. So you can use frequent short runs to support lean manufacturing systems.

Reusable UniPunch unitized press tooling is a cost effective option to increase your hole making and notching capacity. UniPunch tooling gives you the predicable productivity of stamping on low cost punch presses or press brakes. The shorter run time can be quoted at a lower rate than if you used expensive milling and drilling equipment. Save time and money and quote lower prices.

Let UniPunch Help You: When it comes to tube punching, UniPunch gives you quick change tooling and the high and predictable productivity of stamping from a flexible and reusable tooling investment. To learn more, send us a print package and let us quote tooling to punch tubing for you.

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