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Atkore International Group Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets of Rocky Mountain Colby Pipe Co., a PVC conduit and duct products provider sold under the Cor-Tek brand name. Rocky Mountain Colby Pipe, Pendleton, Ore., will continue operating at its current location. The company offers a...
Looking at some of the aspects of U.S. culture that make it conducive to opening and running small businesses, including manufacturing and metal fabrication, which collectively form the foundation of the American economy.
A triple amputation is among the worst ways to learn hard lessons about working safely in any metal fabrication or manufacturing facility. If anything good can come from this situation, it’s prevention.
Essentra has released a pipe and flange protection buyers guide for the oil, gas, and utilities industries. The guide, which includes raised-face and full-face flange protection, pipe plugs, and pipe caps, highlights the features, materials, and specifications of standard ex-stock and custom...
Cleveland-based FD Machinery recently received an order for a new high-frequency ERW tube mill to be installed at a tube production facility in the Great Lakes region in Q1 2020. The complete tube mill line will be equipped with a coil cart, an inline coating system, an automated bundler, and the...
An ironworker is a jack-of-all-trades machine, good for punching, piercing, notching, forming, bending, and shearing of angle, channel, bar, rod, tube, and pipe. A custom-made machine for tube applications can carry out these processes, using automatic loading and unloading, for making accurate parts in short cycle times.
Many involved in tube and pipe use the material’s hardness as a proxy or shorthand for the material’s other mechanical properties. While hardness correlates well to the material’s tensile strength, it doesn’t tell the whole story.
T&H Lemont, Countryside, Ill., a custom manufacturer of tube and pipe mills and roll tooling and provider of tube and pipe roll design, mill alignment, and operational consulting, has appointed Michael Strand as vice president – tooling sales. Strand has worked in the tube and pipe industry for...
Current Pipeline Products, a division of IMAC Systems Inc. in Tullytown, Pa., has launched a new website at currentpipelineproducts.com featuring pipeline isolation products for the natural gas, oil, and water markets. The online products include Barlow weld-in style-flanged pipeline isolation...
Bull Moose Tube, a St. Louis-based manufacturer of steel pipe and tube, has named Nate Carruthers as director of market growth and inside sales. Carruthers served in a similar role as director of business development for Tubular Steel Inc. after spending the first nine years of his career as an...
Sweden-based Sandvik has opened a coiled tubing line for premium grades of seamless stainless steel products in smaller dimensions at its Zhenjiang tube mill near Shanghai. The local production of long lengths of weld-free coiled tubing will enable customers in the Asia Pacific region to receive...
Viking Blast & Wash Systems has released the SR24, its newest pass-through blaster. The machine’s blast zone handles pipe from 9 to 24 in. dia. The unit runs a continuous speed of 2 to 3 FPM to blast an SSPC 10 near-white finish. The rollers are equipped with a VFD programmed to travel 2 to 12...
Fastmarkets has announced the winners of its 10th annual AMM Awards for Steel Excellence. The awards recognize world-class innovation and excellence in steel and related industries for companies throughout the steel supply chain and by key partners to the industry, including steel producers,...
Ametek SMP Fine Tubes, Plymouth, U.K., has named Peter Brown as its new key equipment and facilities manager. He joins the company after working nine years in maintenance and operations management roles. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering with honors in manufacturing engineering with...
You can learn a lot about producing or fabricating tube and pipe by reading industry literature, viewing processes on video, and listening to webinars, but getting out of the office to attend an event or two can provide invaluable insights that other avenues don’t provide.
The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The Fabricator has served the industry since 1970.
start your free subscriptionAfter Ludlow Manufacturing Inc. (LMI) received The Fabricator's 2024 Industry Award, Todd Ludlow, founder and president of the...
The Tube and Pipe Association focuses on the unique needs of tube and pipe producing and fabricating professionals.
Follow the link below to find a TPA member supplier near you.