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Expanding on its prowess in processing copper, Wolverine Tube services a multitude of customers with their Aluminum tubing requirement. Our specialty is smaller diameter tube sizes from the Ardmore, TN facility. This facility is well known in the refrigeration industry for its very high quality capillary tubing and extends its extremely unique tube drawing abilities and a highly skilled workforce to provide high quality aluminum tubular and fabricated products. |
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 Wolverine currently produces more than 200,000 pounds of Aluminum per year in various alloys and tempers. The most popular alloys are ASTM A93003, and A91100, produced to ASTM B483 specifications. In these alloys, Wolverine can manufacture outside diameters ranging from as 0.75" OD to as small as 0.03" OD with the wall thickness ranging from 0.l5" to as thin as 0.008". Most of these sizes can be provided in tampers ranging from O (soft annealed), through H-14 (half-hard) to H-18 (fully hard). Please refer to the attached table for the various sizes and tempers available. |
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Currently Wolverine Aluminum tubing can be found used in various applications and in places you might not imagine, including: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aluminum Fabricated ProductsAs part of Wolverine's thrust into Fabricated Products, the abilities we possess for making various assemblies using copper like Finned Tube Coils and Bent parts have been extended to Aluminum. The ability to process the tubing to attain special sizes and shapes provides Wolverine with great flexibility in meeting your fabricated product requirement. In addition, since we draw in-house we do not run into quantity requirements that most fabricated parts manufacturers face when trying to obtain their tubing requirements. It also enables us to serve you, our customer with reduced lead times and insulate you from the vagaries of the Aluminum market which can cause supply disruptions.
Our capabilities for Aluminum fabrication include various options for end finishing of tubing including bending, end expansions, beading, and end fittings. In addition to alloys that we draw in house, we also provide fabricated products in other widely utilized alloys like A96061, A95052, and other customer specific alloys. In using these alloys, we can leverage our relationships with our existing suppliers to provide the same benefits as we do with our drawn products. Aluminum assemblies fabricated by Wolverine find usage in airflow sensors in air handlers, gas connection lines with multiple bends and in serpentine heat transfer coils. Banking on the technical foundation of our tubing group, our engineering and technical support staff provides the ability to integrate your design with our capabilities. For more information, please contact the Wolverine Marketing Department at mkt@wlv.com
International ProcurementWolverine prides itself on the service it provides its customers and aims to serve as an integrated supplier. Through its global reach with operations in Asia and Europe, Wolverine brings the ability to procure items beyond its current manufacturing capability and provide them at extremely competitive rates. On the customer end, this greatly reduces transaction cost and provides great value with the right mix of a good price and a great service. Wolverine can provide you tubing in Aluminum alloys 6061, and 5052 in various cut lengths to supplement your purchases of 3003 and 1100 alloy material. In addition, we also have the ability to service your requirements for larger sizes in 3003 and 1100 alloys through our International Procurement Division.Product Availability
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In addition to standard OD sizes like 3/4", 1/2", 3/8", 1/4" and 1/8", we provide any OD and wall size
as required by our customer. This large range of sizes is made possible by Wolverine's expertise in
drawing and extrusion process gleaned from 85 years of accumulated learning. In addition, our in-house
Precision Tool Center provides us with the ability to fabricate tooling for various custom sizes
and fabricated parts.