IF you take a ride on the London Eye and dare to look down, you'll get a view of the Thames and central London from an altitude of nearly 450 feet. If that's not your cup of tea, a lateral look will give you a glimpse at the material, mainly steel cable and tubular sections, that went into constructing it. Casual observers would be impressed to learn that 1,870 tons of steel went into the world's tallest cantilevered Ferris wheel; tubers would probably wonder how many saddles, bevels, and chamfers were needed at the tube ends. One company got the contract to profile all of the tubing. That company, HGG Cutting Services Division, is part of HGG, a Dutch equipment manufacturer that displayed several of its SPC series plasma profiling machines at the TUBE 2010 expo in Dusseldorf (April 12-16).
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