Pipe Pile Rebar Cage Welding Machine
High-Efficiency Automated Cage Production: Fully automatic CNC control enables fast, continuous welding with 3–4× manual productivity while reducing labor and material consumption.
Stable Resistance Welding Quality: DC resistance welding delivers uniform, high-strength joints with ≤5% strength loss, ensuring reliable cage performance and minimal spatter.
Flexible Multi-Specification Capability: Compatible with square and round pipe piles and multiple bar sizes, supporting precise preset pitch and length for diverse production needs.
Machine Overview
The Pipe Pile Rebar Cage Welding Machine is a fully automated professional system designed for manufacturing high-strength concrete pipe pile reinforcement cages. The machine ensures minimal welding strength loss, fast forming speed, a well-structured mechanical design, and easy maintenance.
Integrated with modern variable-frequency control and a user-friendly human-machine interface (HMI), the equipment guarantees stable and reliable performance during long-term high-speed operation while consistently delivering high-quality rebar cages.
Power System Configurations
• Medium-Frequency Version
Utilizes medium-frequency inverter technology to reduce energy consumption by more than 30%. It provides more stable welding current and improved weld uniformity, making it ideal for high-precision and large-scale pipe pile production.
• Power-Frequency Version
Equipped with a conventional industrial power-frequency transformer featuring mature technology, low failure rate, and convenient maintenance. This configuration offers strong cost performance and is suitable for small- to medium-capacity production and standard pipe pile processing.
Key Features & Advantages
1. Compatible with Square and Round Piles
One machine supports both square and circular pipe pile reinforcement cage fabrication, eliminating the need for additional equipment investment and reducing overall production costs.
2. Advanced Resistance Welding Technology
Adopts DC resistance welding with rapid heating and high thermal efficiency. Weld joints are firm and spatter-free, with welding strength loss ≤5%, delivering significantly superior quality compared to traditional welding methods.
3. Fully Automated CNC Control
PLC control combined with variable-frequency speed regulation allows precise presetting of spiral pitch and cage length with minimal deviation, solving the accuracy challenges of manual welding.
4. High Efficiency with Reduced Labor and Material Costs
Welding line speed reaches up to 3000 mm/min, achieving 3–4 times the efficiency of manual welding. Spiral reinforcement does not require overlapping, saving approximately 1.5% in material usage. A team of five operators can complete full production shifts.
5. Stable, Durable, and Easy to Operate
Features intelligent fault alerts and a touchscreen control system for simple operation. Operators can master the system within 30 minutes. The machine supports 24-hour continuous production, making it ideal for large-scale manufacturing.
6. Compatible with Multiple Rebar Specifications
Capable of processing various diameters of longitudinal and spiral reinforcement bars, meeting full-specification pipe pile production requirements and ensuring strong adaptability to infrastructure projects.
Core Application Areas
The Pipe Pile Rebar Cage Welding Machine is widely applied in:
1. Pipe Pile Manufacturing Plants
Standardized fabrication of reinforcement cages for precast concrete square and round piles, supporting mass production.
2. Infrastructure Precast Facilities
Production of pipe piles for bridges, high-speed railways, highways, ports, and marine foundation projects.
3. Building Construction Bases
Foundation pipe pile processing for residential housing, affordable housing, and industrial factory projects.
4. Municipal Engineering Sites or Precast Areas
Pipe pile fabrication for urban roads, underground pipeline networks, and wastewater treatment plants.
5. Professional Piling Contractors
On-site reinforcement cage prefabrication for various foundation subcontracting projects, enabling nearby processing at construction sites.
6. Hydraulic Engineering Projects
Pipe pile processing for reservoirs, embankments, river improvement works, and other water conservancy projects.
Machine Structure
The Pipe Pile Rebar Cage Welding Machine mainly consists of a head unit, tail frame, carriage, steel bar support table, and electrical control cabinet.
| Component | Description | Notes |
Steel bar support table | Holds steel bars | Fabricated locally |
Welding drum | Mounts copper rings of equal diameter | Must be insulated from frame |
Welding mechanism | Press-welds spiral bars onto main bars | — |
Wire feeder | Feeds spiral reinforcement | Avoid overloading feeder reel |
Machine base | Structural mounting frame | Must remain insulated from tail frame |
Carriage | Pulls and advances main bars | — |
Tail frame | Guide rail support for carriage | — |
Technical Parameters
| Item | Specification |
Cage diameter | Ø300 / Ø400 / Ø500 / Ø600 mm |
Cage length | 7–15 m (extendable to 45 m) |
Number of longitudinal bars | 6, 7, 10, or customized |
Longitudinal bar diameter | Ø7.1 / Ø9.0 / Ø10.7 mm |
Spiral bar diameter | Ø4–Ø6 mm |
Spiral pitch | 0–100 mm |
Traction speed | Max 7500 mm/min |
Drive power | 8.4 kW |
Welding power | 300 kVA |
Main rotation speed | 0–80 rpm |
Welding method | Resistance welding |
Control mode | Automatic |
Welding material | Steel with carbon content <0.20% |
Strength loss at weld | ≤5% |
Weld tensile/shear strength | ≥200 kg |
Transformer cooling | Air/self cooling |
Power supply | 380V ±5%, 50 Hz |
Ambient temperature | −5°C to +35°C |
Relative humidity | <85% |
Machine weight | ≈5 tons |



