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Addison Machine Eng. Inc., Reedsburg, Wis., has announced plans to open a new roll tooling facility near Houston. According to the company, the expansion is spurred by the company’s growth in the OCTG market. This year is the firm’s 50th year in business serving the tube and pipe industry....
T&B Tube Co. has announced plans to move from South Holland, Ill., to Gary, Ind. The move is slated for completion by the end of 2015.
The company, which has 80 employees, produces welded steel tube and offers plating, cutting, and deburring services.
Superior Tube, Collegeville, Pa., and Fine Tubes, Plymouth, U.K., manufacturers of precision tubing for critical applications, have announced the appointment of Erik Latranyi as sales manager – Americas. Based at Superior Tube’s head office, Latranyi focuses on developing a stronger...
Countryside, Ill.-based T&H Lemont, an Inductotherm Group company, has appointed Gavin Chen as program and marketing manager. His efforts focus on managing customer needs in Asian industrial markets and assisting with negotiations and project management for the firm’s pipe and tube technologies....
Plymouth, U.K.-based Fine Tubes and Collegeville, Pa.-based Superior Tube, manufacturers and suppliers of precision tubes for critical applications, have signed a two-year contract with Fusoh Aviation Co. Ltd. to act as their distribution partner in Japan for the aerospace and space sectors....
Plymouth, U.K.-based Fine Tubes, a manufacturer of precision tubing for critical applications across a range of global markets, has appointed Romeu Rei as sales engineer. Rei is involved primarily in the aerospace and nuclear markets. A mechanical engineering graduate from the Instituto...
Axis Pipe and Tube Inc., a Prolamsa Group company, has announced receipt of American Petroleum Institute (API) certifications API-5CT, API 5L, and API Spec Q1, as well as ISO: 9001(2008), for its newly opened pipe and tubular products manufacturing facility in Bryan, Texas. The $150 million...
Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic®, Warren, Ohio, recently shipped a 4,500-kW, 12-pulse, Pacer II induction heating system to the L.B. Foster Coated Products pipe coating facility in Birmingham, Ala. The high-speed coating system applies fusion bonded epoxy (FBE) to 12.75- to 24-in. pipe in lengths up...
Roll Machining Technologies and Solutions, Romeoville, Ill., has released its strip width calculator in a new online format at www.rollsolutions.com/strip-width-calculator. This tool for tube mill operators once was only available bundled with the company’s proprietary T.U.B.E.S. (Tube Users...
Yoder Mfg. of Cleveland, a member of the Formtek Group, has shipped a fiber laser welded tube mill for producing decorative stainless components. The mill uses fiber lasers with twin-spot welding optics. Wall thickness capability is up to 0.375 in. Limitations on OD size are dictated by...
U.S.-based Superior Tube and its sister company, U.K.-based Fine Tubes, manufacturers of precision tubing for critical applications, has appointed Kris Narasimhan to the position of nuclear product manager. Narasimhan has more than 25 years of experience in product marketing and product...
U.K.-based Primetals Technologies has received the final acceptance certificate from Borusan Mannesmann Pipe U.S. for heat treatment equipment installed in the company´s new ERW pipe mill in Baytown, Texas. The equipment is used to quench and temper oil country tubular goods (OCTG). The...
TPJ-TV host Eric Lundin interviews Mark Sowka, vice president of Chicago Tube & Iron's Engineered Products Group, about the company's ASME-code pressure boiler work.
Russia-based OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) shipped a record amount of products to pipemakers and produced the largest amount of hot-rolled products in 2014 for the whole period of its modern history. In 2014 MMK shipped more than 2.78 million metric tons of metal products to...
Global Industry Analysts Inc. (GIA), San Jose, Calif., has released a comprehensive global report on pipes and pipe/hose fittings. According to the report, the global market for these products is projected to reach $320 billion by 2020, driven by the growing focus on infrastructure development in...
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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.