UK company is renowned for the design and manufacture of precision CNC tube forming machinery - including systems for highly complex car and truck exhaust systems.

Across the world, Preston-based Addison Tube Forming is renowned for the design, supply and manufacture of precision CNC tube forming machinery for numerous industries - including the manufacture of today's highly complex car and truck exhaust systems.

Across the Atlantic, sister company, McKee-Addison, of Ohio, USA, produces the widest range of end forming machines and associated tooling, all of which are frequently used in tandem with Addison bending technology.

Indeed, ever since the two companies of Addison Tube Forming and McKee Tool Corporation became one back in 1998, they have provided the only real choice for innovative CNC tube bending, forming and cutting machinery.

* New name - new corporate identity - today, with both Addison and McKee-Addison's tube bending and forming technology ranges now globally recognised across the international automotive, shipbuilding, aerospace, air conditioning, furniture, sports and hospital equipment industries, the company has decided that the time is now right for both organisations to simply trade as AddisonMckee.

* Worldwide expertise - commenting on the decision to adopt a single company name, AddisonMckee's UK export and sales director, Peter Chapman said, "Since the original merger of Addison and McKee back in the late 1990s, both companies have grown to become acknowledged experts in all aspects of tube forming technology." He said: "At Addison, we are technical leaders in both machine design and application experience, whereas McKee can claim similar achievements in the end forming arena.

Coincidentally, we have both developed all-electric models to help eliminate the need for hydraulic systems." Chapman added: "Globally recognised as leaders in our field - and with new product developments in the pipeline - we have decided that the time is now right to adopt a single company name.

In short, whether it's tube bending or end forming there's only one name to remember - and that name is AddisonMckee." * Global image - along with the adoption of a single name across all its operations, a new corporate identity, specially created to clearly establish AddisonMckee as a global brand, has also been produced.

* World class - AddisonMckee's skilled workforce is capable of manufacturing CNC tube bending and end forming machinery and tooling to suit virtually any application.

At its UK plant the company produces a range of over 50 basic hydraulic and electric CNC machines that can bend pipes ranging from the 4mm sizes used in automotive components through to the 273mm tubes used in shipbuilding.

The company manufactures a wide range of end forming equipment, tooling and other associated machinery from its base in the USA.


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