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Modern seamless pipe is extruded. The process starts wit a large cylindrical ingot like a big fat copper washer being forced through a a smaller diameter die to create a smaller diameter but longer tube. This new tube is put through a similar process producing even smaller diameter and longer.tube and so on until the desired size is attained.
Generally the process is continuous such that one long continuous tube is produced that can be travelling at extremely high speeds even though the input stage is quite slow. Each size reduction accelerates the product
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