12 BRANDS · ONE GROUP · EVERY STAGE OF THE PIPING JOB

FROM THE FIRST CUT TO THE FINAL FACE

S.F.E. Group brings the pipe stand, the cutter, the purge bag, the welding head and the flange facer under one roof — so your turnaround runs on one call, not six.

WHO WE ARE

ONE GROUP, TWELVE BRANDS, ONE PATH

S.F.E. Group was formed in 2019 from three leading pipe-fabrication OEMs and has since added Axxair, Magnatech, Climax and Sumner. Today the group carries over 200 years of combined engineering experience across 12 complementary brands, with offices and warehousing on five continents and 500+ partners and distributors worldwide — covering every stage of a piping job, start to finish.

Before a torch or a weld head ever touches the pipe, it has to be lifted, rolled, staged and held steady. BB-SUMNER and Sumner Material Lifts cover the stand, the roller, the buggy and the hoist so the pipe is exactly where the crew needs it, safely.

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STAGE 1 OF 5

Handle & Position

Heavy Duty Pro-Jack

up to 12" pipe · 2,500 lb

Fixed-leg pipe jack line (Hi/Lo/Stubby) with quick-lock height adjustment and a 2:1 certified safety ratio.

Mega Roller Stand

up to 60" pipe · up to 15,000 lb

Heavy-duty rotation stand for large-bore vessel and pipe work, short or tall.

5 Leg Giant Jack

up to 36" pipe · 5,000 lb

Heavy-capacity jack with double locking pins for the largest diameters on site.

Mathey Dearman, TAG Pipe, H&S Tool and Axxair between them cover flame, cold and orbital cutting and bevelling on every pipe size from small-bore tube to 120" plate and pipe, wherever in the world the job is running.

STAGE 2 OF 5

CUT & BEVEL

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PREP Portable Bevelling

1 - 24" i/d (TAG / H&S Tool)

Portable pipe bevel machines for field prep, plus splitframe clamshell machines up to 120".

E-Z Pipecut Manual

4.5 - 24" pipe

Chain-driven manual pipe cutter with variable bevel angles up to 45° and a quick-release clutch.

TSFC Split Frame Machine

2 - 120" pipe

High-precision cold cutting and bevelling for a wide range of pipe sizes. Built from high-grade aluminum, ideal for industrial use

Fit-Up Pro and Mathey Dearman hold the joint square and aligned; Pipe Purge Masters (PPM) seals the weld chamber and monitors oxygen so the weld comes out clean, every time — especially critical on stainless and alloy piping.

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STAGE 3 OF 5

FIT UP & PURGE

Spider Clamps

2 - 36" i/d

Pprecision alignment for two hollow cylindricalcomponents of different diameters. With independent expanding clamps for each part, the tool ensures secure clamping

Purge Bag System

2 - 24" pipe

Dual inflatable dam purge system with armored connecting tube for a sealed, reusable weld chamber.

Purge Oxygen Monitor

ppm-level readout

Real-time oxygen monitoring to confirm purge quality before and during welding.

Magnatech and Axxair auto-program orbital GTAW, FCAW and GMAW welds so consistent, repeatable results don’t depend on finding a specialist welder for every pass.

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STAGE 4 OF 5

WELD

D-Head 420

0.84 - 14" pipe

Compact, high-precision weld head designed for multi-passorbital GTAW welding of pipe-to-pipe, pipe-to-fitting and tube-to-tubesheets.

based and exotic alloys.

Axxair SATFX / SATO Heads

0.25 - 8.265" o/d

Closed and open orbital GTAW heads for prefabrication and small-to-mid diameter tube welding.

T-Head 419

4.5 - 84" pipe

Multi-pass orbital GTAW weld head for pipe-to-pipe and pipe-to-fitting welding on carbon and exotic alloys.

Climax closes out the job with I/D and O/D mount flange facing, line boring and portable machining, with Bortech bore welding on hand to restore worn surfaces before final machining.