Melted, cast, drawn, and tested in Texas.
Ameritube is a copper tube mill in Hillsboro, Texas. We pilger, draw, anneal, straighten, and test every copper alloy tube under one roof, and we now melt and cast C12200 copper in-house. No import lead times, no mystery mill test reports.
Seven steps. One building. One name on the MTR.
Most "domestic" copper tube suppliers buy foreign hollows and finish them. Ameritube pilgers, draws, anneals, and tests every copper alloy tube in Hillsboro, and now melts and casts C12200 copper here too, with copper-nickel next for the furnace.
Melt
C12200 copper charged and melted in-house to chemistry. Other alloys enter as qualified cast shells.
Cast
Continuous cast into seamless hollow shells, ready for cold working.
Pilger
Cold pilger rolling reduces wall and diameter while refining grain structure.
Draw
Multi-pass drawing to final OD and wall, with 30%+ reduction per pass on demanding alloys.
Anneal
Controlled-atmosphere annealing in our 60-foot furnace to the specified temper.
Straighten
Straightened and cut to length, ends deburred and cleaned.
Test
Eddy current, hydrostatic, air-under-water, ammonia vapor, and dimensional checks on 100% of tube.
Buy from the mill, not from a warehouse.
When the same people who cast the copper also sign the test report, problems get caught at the draw bench instead of at your tube sheet. That is the difference between a distributor and a manufacturer.
- Traceability you can read. Shell origin, chemistry, mechanicals, and NDT results on every MTR, produced here.
- Domestic lead times. Stocked sizes ship in days. Made-to-order copper alloy tube in weeks, not the quarter an import takes.
- 100% tested, not sampled. Every tube sees eddy current. Hydrostatic, air-under-water, and ammonia vapor testing on request.
- Origin documented. C12200 melted and manufactured in the USA. Every other alloy processed and tested here with shell origin stated, so Buy American and DFARS reviews have what they need.
- Engineers on the quote desk. Send the spec and the drawing. We will tell you what is standard, what is custom, and what it costs.
ISO 9001:2015. Bureau Veritas. Your auditors welcome.
Our quality system covers receiving, in-process, and final inspection, with a traveler on every job and calibrated gauges on every bench. Customers from refineries to navies have audited it.
