SCARBOROUGH manufacturer Unison has received an order from an American supplier of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
Unison, based in Eastfield, builds electronic tube bending machines for the manufacturing industry.
Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), is one of two shipbuilders of nuclear-powered submarines for the US Navy, has ordered an all-electric CNC machine capable of bending large-bore tubing and piping up to eight inches in diameter.
The machine will be the first of its type ever built and will enable the NNS to produce larger diameter pipes that previously could only be bent on very high torque hydraulic machines.
NNS, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has been using the Scarborough company's tube benders for six years.
Jim Saynor, sales manager for Unison, said: “This latest order from Newport News Shipbuilding highlights the flexibility of our bending machine control technology.
"Through collaboration and the support of our partners in the USA, Horn Machine Tools, we have gained a thorough understanding of the needs of this prestigious shipbuilder, and have helped and advised them on numerous aspects of pipe and tube fabrication."
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