PHI is a metal forming machinery manufacturer offering its clients both high end and customized machinery. With more than a half century of experience, PHI is positioned to all of your machinery needs, including the following:

Tube Fabricating -- PHI offers precision tube and pipe benders capable of bending tubes from 1/8 “ up to 3“ diameter. Tube End Finishing Machines are supplied for tube squaring de-burring, flaring, flanging and beading.

Presses -- PHI is a major supplier of presses for materials testing, composite materials, printed circuit board laminating and molding. PHI Laboratory Presses are used throughout the world in major chemical laboratories.

Welders -- For the steel industry, PHI offers an automatic steel beam welder line for the manufacture of custom steel beams, as used in pre-engineered buildings, bridges and shipyards. 

Through this website, our goal is to provide our customers with timely, comprehensive information on PHI and its products. The PHI website, however, is not intended as a replacement for the personal contact our customers have come to know us by.  All of us at PHI want to provide you with full technical service and sales support. Reach out and let us know what your needs are, and how we might better serve you.

For more information on the History of PHI Tulip and how we came to industry prominence, click here.

History of PHI and the Tulip Corporation

PHI, a division of Tulip Corporation, was originally founded during the early 1940's as Preco Incorporated of Los Angeles, a maker of bench-type molding presses for laminating documents and identification cards.

Since those early beginnings, PHI has expanded its capabilities and markets by producing larger presses (incorporating new technologies), to serve a variety of specialized industries. Because of this vast experience, PHI is today a major supplier of presses for applications that require precise temperature, pressure and position controls. Fast approach speeds, programmable temperature and pressure profiles, computer controls and vacuum chambers are some of the options available with today's PHI presses. Capacities range from 20 to 1000 tons, Platen sizes from 8" x 8" to 60" x 60" and temperatures available up to 1000º.

In 1977, PHI became a division of Tulip Corporation, which at that time included the PHI equipment division and Molded Products division, a leading supplier of hard rubber and plastic battery component parts. The solid success of Tulip Corporation lead to the acquisition in 1985 of the Machine Tool Division of Conrac, which was integrated into PHI.

PHI: Product Lines and Quality Manufacturing

PHI's machine tool products today include tube/pipe benders, end finishing machines, flare-flange equipment and tooling, and automatic welding systems. 

PHI produces precision tube and pipe benders capable of bending material in diameters from 1/8" up to 3". End finishing applications include tube squaring, beading and deburring. Welding systems are used to fabricate welded structural beams such as are used by the metal building and truck trailer industries.

PHI and Tulip Corporation: Dual Operations and Headquarters

Headquartered in the City of Industry, California, PHI today consists of two manufacturing operations -- strategically integrated in one facility.

The first operation produces compression presses for applications such as printed circuit board lamination and composite plastic molding. PHI's customers typically require custom press designs with state-of-the-art controls and automation.

In the worldwide market for precision hydraulic compression presses, PHI is the acknowledged leader.

The second manufacturing operation produces precision, semi-automatic tube and pipe fabricating equipment for bending and end-finishing, including the associated tooling. Automatic beam welding systems are also made by this operation.

Both operations and their customers benefit from the efficient integration of engineering and manufacturing at PHI.