Listertube provides tube bending services for customers across a wide range of industries. Using advanced CNC equipment and decades of manufacturing experience, we produce accurate, repeatable tube and bar components to demanding specifications.
Key Benefits
Where flexible hose remains the better solution, our wider capabilities allow us to provide the most appropriate option for your application.
Early involvement in the design process can help reduce costs, improve manufacturability and optimise component performance.
Having provided tube bending services to leading manufacturers for more than 15 years, we have built up an extensive range of tooling and production expertise. As a result, we can often avoid the need for additional tooling charges, helping customers reduce project costs. Furthermore, by consulting with our team before a design is finalised, we can identify the most efficient, practical and cost-effective manufacturing solution.
Our engineering team can provide more detailed tube manipulation design guidance to support your project.
For applications where thin-wall tube or specific material characteristics increase the risk of wrinkling, flattening or collapse during bending, we offer advanced mandrel bending services.
Using our extensive range of mandrel bending tooling, we can successfully form challenging tube geometries across a broad range of materials and specifications.
A mandrel is typically a straight rod with a hemispherical end positioned inside the tube during bending. For more demanding applications, flexible mandrels are used to move through multiple bend directions and angles while reducing stress, wrinkling and the risk of material failure.
Bends smaller than twice the tube diameter will often require mandrel support. In many cases, bend radii as tight as the tube diameter can be achieved with minimal deformation, depending on wall thickness, material specification and tooling availability.
It is also particularly beneficial for thin-wall tube assemblies, tight-radius bends and challenging materials, where maintaining tube integrity and dimensional accuracy is critical. Our experience ensures the most appropriate bending method is selected to achieve the required specification and product integrity.
Alongside draw bending, we also offer roll bending, sometimes referred to as push bending, for the production of large sweeping curves and radii.
The tube passes between a set of rollers while controlled pressure is applied. As the material moves through the rollers, it is progressively formed into a curve. Increasing the pressure creates a tighter curve and smaller radius.
A key advantage of roll bending is that a single tool set can often produce multiple bend radii, making it a flexible and cost-effective forming process.
We use roll bending in the following applications:
Suitable for producing simple arcs within a single plane, with capacity up to 75 mm tube diameter. This solution meets most large-radius bending requirements while keeping tooling costs low.
