Mission
Universal Tool & Engineering is dedicated to developing, manufacturing and marketing reliable, cost effective tube and pipe benders and tube and pipe fabricating equipment.Each individual employee takes responsibility for the company's success by respecting and understanding each other's role and its impact on our customers.
Our success is dependent on meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
About Us
Universal Tool and Engineering (UTE) has been serving the metal working and tube fabrication industries for over 30 years. We specialize in Tube/Pipe Bending and End Forming Equipment for Copper, Stainless, Aluminum and CarbonSteel profiles. Our Bending Equipment consists of: CNC & Semi-automatic Draw Benders, Serpentine Benders, All-Electric CNC Tube Benders, Twin Head Rotary Draw Benders, Push (Calendar) Bending, Single to Triple stack Benders, and Left and Right Hand Bending in the same Bender. Other Equipment at UTE are, Tube Straighteners, Hole piercing stations, Cut off Saws, and Other tube processes to complete you fabrication needs.UTE has expanded their expertise to include Automation for all their Equipment using Robots and Pick and Place Devices to transfer the parts from one operation to the next. We can provide you with in-line inspection and assembly processes when desired. Automatic loading and unloading is also available. Special fabrication stations are often designed and built to provide the most efficient processing of your parts.
Rebuilding your Tube Bender is also available. We have experience rebuilding the following Models; 3RC, Adaptive Motion, Addison, Addison Mckee, Bema, BLM, Chiyoda, CSM, Clark & Lewis, Conrac, Coast, Criterion, Diacro, Eaton Leonard, Eagle, Eurobend, Hines, HMT, Horn, Horn Machine Tools, Keins, MiiC, Pines, Pedrazolli, PHI, Smith, Schwarze, Soco, Schwarze-Wirtz, Techno, Trans Fluid, Unison, Wallace and YLM.
Other Services available are: design and build solutions for custom applications, tool and die, jigs and fixtures, CNC production machining, as well as production fabrication and metal stamping.
Industry Leading Innovation and a commitment to excellence has our product lines continuously growing and our services expanding. Enjoy browsing our site and if your application is not highlighted in one of our categories, please contact us anyway, as we are eager to help you find the most efficient solution to your metal forming application.
History of Universal Tool and Engineering
2008 — Introduction of CNC 100, 130, 150 and Conversion of Pines #4 To Full CNC Tube and Pipe Bender
2007 — Introduction of "Robo Bender", CNC 50, 65 and 80mm benders
2002 — First Pines Rebuild, entry into Bender "Rebuild" business
2001 — First CNC 40 and introduction of Microsoft Windows XP operating system
1998 — Total Redesign of Model 1500 — operating system changed to Microsoft Windows 2000
1996 — Transition of Bender Controller to Microsoft Windows 95 Operating System
1995 — Building Expansion — Added an additional 465 sq. meters to production
1995 — First CNC Model 30 Introduced
1993 — Patented "Correct A Bend" Feature
1992 — First Tube End Formers introduced — 25mm capacity
1992 — First Windows Bases Icon Driven Tube and Pipe Bender Control — Introduced at FabTec
1991 — Acquisition of CNC Bender/Endformer Designs from Stark Manufacturing
1989 — Building Expansion — Added 465 sq. meters to production
1985 — Introduction of Custom Stamping/Press
1979 — Universal Tool and Engineering, Inc founded by Manuel Abraham as a Custom Tool and Die Build Shop in Johnson City, TN