T&H Lemont hires sales, marketing manager
T&H Lemont, Countryside, Ill., has hired Martin W. Byrne as manager of domestic sales and marketing. In this position, he formulates marketing and...
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Rafter Equipment now selling Takeco equipment
Rafter Equipment Corp., Strongsville, Ohio, has formed a strategic alliance with Takeco Co. Ltd. of South Korea to sell and service Takeco's strip...
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American Piping expands in Houston, hires CFO in St. Louis
American Piping Products has expanded its Houston facility with a new sales and operations headquarters. The company is a supplier of heavy-wall...
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Roll-Kraft recertified to ISO 9001:2000 With Design
Roll-Kraft, Mentor, Ohio, has been recertified as ISO 9001:2000 With Design. The company has been certified to the ISO standards since 1997....
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Tube India Intl. returns in 2010
Tube India International 2010—The All-Indian Exhibition and Conference for the Tube and Pipe Industries—will be held at the Bombay...
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Woodstock Tube celebrates five years
Woodstock Tube, Woodstock, Ala., recently celebrated five years of operation. The company manufactures pipe, as well as square and rectangular...
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FMA and TPA seek applicants for industry awards
The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Intl. (FMA) and the Tube & Pipe Association, Intl. (TPA) seek applicants for two industry awards....
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Michigan Seamless Tube adds UV coating line
Michigan Seamless Tube, a producer of carbon and alloy seamless cold-drawn pipe and tube, has added a new UV coating line to its South Lyon,...
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Bystronic Group, BLM Group form marketing alliance
Bystronic (sheet metal processing systems) and the BLM GROUP (tube processing systems) have formed an alliance to work closely together in market...
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AK Tube's Walbridge Plant receives safety award
AK Steel has announced that the Walbridge, Ohio plant of AK Tube LLC has been honored with a Special Award for its safety performance from the...
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Seamless stainless tube imports from China continue growth
U.S. producers comprising the Stainless Steel Tube Trade Advancement Committee (SSTTAC) have noted that, despite the significant recession in the...
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Haven, SOCO form strategic alliance
Haven Mfg. Corp., Brunswick, Ga., a manufacturer of tube processing machines, has formed a strategic alliance with SOCO Machinery Co., Ltd. of...
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Prolamsa USA begins producing mechanical tubing in U.S.
Prolamsa USA has begun production of mechanical tubing at its first U.S. manufacturing facility, located in Laredo, Texas. The facility produces...
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RathGibson opens Buenos Aires office
Lincolnshire, Ill.-based RathGibson, a manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing, has...
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TMK IPSCO Kentucky plant ratifies new labor agreement
TMK IPSCO was notified yesterday by the United Steelworkers and its Local 1870 that union members at the company's Wilder, Ky., plant have...
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Tube Southeast Asia returns to Bangkok
From Oct. 13 to 15, 2009, Tube Southeast Asia - International Tube & Pipe Trade Fair for Southeast Asia - will be held in Bangkok for the second...
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TMK IPSCO opens Baytown heat treat facility
Construction of a new heat treat facility has been completed at TMK IPSCO's Baytown Works in Baytown, Texas. The facility is designed to heat...
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Hydro to close precision tubing plant in Michigan
Norway-based Hydro, a supplier of aluminum and aluminum products, has announced that it is consolidating its aluminum precision tubing operation...
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U.S. Steel names VP – tubular operations
United States Steel Corp. announced today that Douglas R. Matthews has been appointed vice president-tubular operations and president of the...
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Roll-Kraft earns ISO recertification
Roll-Kraft, Mentor, Ohio, has participated in a surveillance audit of its ISO quality management system and, for the fourth consecutive year, has...
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Triumph Tube to open new manufacturing facility in South Carolina
The South Carolina Department of Commerce, Orangeburg County Development Commission, and the Central S.C. Alliance have announced that Triumph...
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RathGibson announces new CEO
Lincolnshire, Ill.-based RathGibson, a global manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing,...
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Roll-Kraft hires two staff members
Roll-Kraft has added Norman VanHorn and Bruce Wolfe to the staff at its headquarters facility in Mentor, Ohio. Both men come to the company with...
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Tubelite hires product development engineer
Tubelite Inc., Walker, Mich., has added John Campbell to its staff as a product development engineer helping expand the company's offering of...
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RathGibson launches new international offices
RathGibson, Lincolnshire, Ill., a manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing, has...
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Roll-Kraft installs new machines
Roll-Kraft, Mentor, Ohio, has installed three CNC machines. Two of the machines operate at the Mentor plant, and the other machine at the...
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TUBOTECH 2009 to be held in Brazil
TUBOTECH, 5th International Tube, Fittings and Components trade fair will be staged at the Centro de Exposicoes Imigrantes in São Paulo, Brazil,...
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Rafter Equipment names VP of sales and marketing
Rafter Equipment Corp., Strongsville, Ohio, has added Mark Prasek as vice president of sales and marketing. He has spent the last 16 years in the...
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Astronaut Brandenstein visits Plymouth Tube's Trent Plant
Four-time shuttle astronaut and United Space Alliance COO Dan Brandenstein visited Plymouth Tube Co.'s Trent Plant in East Troy, Wis., in...
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Mayville Engineering to purchase assets of Fabricating Specialists
Mayville Eng. Co. (MEC), a contract manufacturer in Mayville, Wis., has acquired the assets of Fabricating Specialists LLC, a manufacturer of...
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Ohio Gratings expands with new division
Ohio Gratings Inc., Canton, Ohio, has announced a new division of its company, called OGi Architectural Metal Solutions. The division has been...
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Bosch Rexroth opens new facility
Bosch Rexroth Corp., Hoffman Estates, Ill., recently opened a new facility, Tech Center East, in Rochester Hills, Mich. Tech Center East is...
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Roll-Kraft receives safety award
Roll-Kraft's safety record recently was reviewed by the Lake County Safety Council in Ohio. As a result, the Mentor, Ohio, company received an...
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Al Fajer Information, Messe Düsseldorf announce dates for Tekno/Tube Arabia 2009
Tekno/Tube Arabia: 9th International Trade Fair for Industrial Machinery, Metalworking, Machine Tools, Dies/Molds, Tubes, and Pipes is scheduled...
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Plymouth Tube names general manager
Plymouth Tube Co., Warrenville, Ill., has appointed Gavin Ford as general manager of its hot mill in Winamac, Ind. Ford previously worked for...
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Warren Steel Holdings completes vacuum tank degasser
Warren Steel Holdings, Warren, Ohio, announced that it completed the hot commissioning of its vacuum tank degasser and related systems. The...
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FABTECH hosts 31,000 visitors, covers 461,627 sq. ft.
The 2007 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show at McCormick Place in Chicago hosted more exhibiting companies and covered more exhibit...
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Messe Düsseldorf, ZAO Expocentr plan Tube Russia 2008
Tube Russia 2008, an international tube and pipe trade fair, is scheduled to run May 27–30 at the ZAO Exhibition Center in Moscow. The event...
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Roll-Kraft hosts seminars
Roll-Kraft hosted nearly 100 tube and pipe and roll forming manufacturers during its two-day training sessions at the company's headquarters in...
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FABTECH Intl. & AWS Welding Show returns to Chicago
The 2007 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show, the largest North American showcase of metal forming, fabricating, stamping, tube and...
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Villacero launches Villacero Commercial Intl., upgrades Tex-Tube plant
Villacero, Monterrey, Mexico, has formed a global business venture, Villacero Commercial Intl. (VCI), to focus on North American and international...
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Berg plans new facility in Alabama
The Berg Steel Pipe Corp., Panama City, Fla., has chosen Mobile, Ala., as the site of the company's planned $75 million pipe manufacturing...
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AK Tube receives safety award
The Columbus, Ind., plant of AK Tube LLC, an AK Steel subsidiary, has received the Safety Award of Merit from the Fabricators & Manufacturers...
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Plymouth Tube acquires Trent Tube
Plymouth Tube Co., Warrenville, Ill., has announced that an agreement has been achieved for the acquisition of Trent Tube from Crucible Materials...
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Veridiam acquires Allied Swiss Screw Products
Veridiam, San Diego, has acquired Allied Swiss Screw Products, Oceanside, Calif. Veridiam is a provider of EDM services; milled and turned...
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Trio of tradeshows offers parallel staging, increased exhibit space
The parallel staging of Metallurgy-Litmash, Tube Russia, and Aluminium/Non-Ferrous 2007 offered 52,500 sq. ft. of exhibit space—50 percent...
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Staging of 2008 Tube China announced
Messe Düsseldorf has announced the Shanghai New International Expo Center will host Tube China Sept. 23-26, 2008. Messe Düsseldorf...
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BGL sells Western Pneumatic Tube
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company has sold Western Pneumatic Tube Co. (WPT), a portfolio company of Superior Group Inc., to Tinicum Capital Partners...
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Bronx Taylor Wilson provides machine for Kazakhstan facility
Bronx Taylor Wilson Limited has announced that it has manufactured and shipped what it says reputedly is the world's largest 10-roll tube...
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Eagle Precision introduces new warranty program
Eagle Precision Technologies Ltd., a provider of tube bending and forming systems, has introduced a new 5-year warranty program. The warranty...
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Chinese firm installs Thermatool pipe mill
Faray Petroleum Steel Pipe Co. Ltd., Dongying, China has installed an API pipe mill equipped with a CFI 1000 Thermatool induction welding unit...
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IPSCO completes NS Group acquisition
IPSCO Inc. has announced the completion of its acquisition of NS Group Inc., a manufacturer of seamless and welded oilfield tubular goods,...
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TPJSymposium scheduled for March
The Tube & Pipe Association, Intl. (TPA), and its flagship magazine, TPJ – The Tube & Pipe Journal ®, announce their upcoming TPJ...
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Timken to exit seamless steel tube manufacturing in England
The Timken Co. today announced its intention to exit its European seamless steel tube manufacturing operations located in Desford, England, as...
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RathGibson acquires Greenville Tube Co.
RathGibson, Janesville, Wis., has acquired Greenville Tube Co., Greenville, Pa., a supplier of specialty stainless steel and nickel-alloy tubing...
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Tube, pipe trade fair sees increased attendance
Tube 2006, International Tube and Pipe Trade Fair, held in Düsseldorf, Germany, attracted 28,600 attendees, an increase of 7.5 percent compared...
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PTCAlliance emerges from Chapter 11
PTCAlliance Corp., Wexford, Pa., has completed the necessary steps to implement its prepackaged plan of reorganization and has successfully...
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Addison Machine adds to engineering department
Addison Machine Engineering, Reedsburg, Wis., has added Courtney Fassel and Tom Onate to its engineering department. The addition of Fassel...
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Universal Tube & Rollform completes roll form line
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp., Perrysburg, Ohio, in cooperation with Universal Controls Group, has completed a roll form line for the...
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Roll-Kraft completes seminars
Roll-Kraft, Mentor, Ohio, recently completed a series of seminars for manufacturers of tube and pipe and roll forming equipment. In addition to...
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Graebener Group Technologies appoints president
Graebener Group Technologies LLC, Napoleon, Ohio, a joint venture between Automatic Feed Company (AFCo), Graebener Maschinentechnik GmbH and REIKA...
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Michigan Seamless Tube names president/CEO
Michigan Seamless Tube LLC, South Lyon, Mich., has named Michael Rinker as president and CEO. Rinker has spent 28 years in the stainless steel...
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Lincoln Electric receives President's 'E-Star' Award
The Lincoln Electric Company has received the President's "E Star" Award for Exports in recognition of its achievement in supporting export growth...
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Macsteel Service Centers USA announces expansion
Macsteel Service Centers USA Inc., owned by the global steel company Macsteel Holdings of South Africa, has announced that it is constructing a...
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Steel Dynamics completes Roanoke Electric Steel acquisition
Today Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Roanoke Electric Steel Corp. The transaction...
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Hydro Aluminum names sales fabrication manager
Hydro Aluminum, Baltimore, has named Tony Amendola as general sales fabrication manager for the company's Midwest region. Amendola is responsible...
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IPSCO invests in plate and pipe upgrades
IPSCO Inc., Lisle, Ill., as part of its planned capital expenditures for 2006, has approved the $17.7 million expenditure for the installation of...
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Messe Düsseldorf to co-organize Brazilian show
Messe Düsseldorf, organizer of international trade fairs for the wire, cable, and tube and pipe industries, has become the co-organizer of...
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Steel Dynamics expanding Columbia City mill capacity
Steel Dynamics Inc. today announced plans to add additional production capacity at its Columbia City, Ind., mini mill that will allow the plant to...
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Nucor to purchase Connecticut Steel assets
Nucor Corp. announced today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase substantially all of the assets of Connecticut Steel Corp. for a...
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Roll-Kraft receives perfect score on ISO certification
For the second year in a row, Roll-Kraft, Mentor, Ohio, has completed its annual ISO 9001:2000 certification with no major or minor...
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Lincoln sponsors NASCAR Fantasy Weekends Sweepstakes
Lincoln Electric Co., Cleveland, has announced its NASCAR® Fantasy Weekends Sweepstakes, that offers individuals a chance to win one of three...
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Hydro Aluminum adds to staff
Hydro Aluminum, Baltimore, has named Mike Byrum as director of business development for the St. Augustine, Fla., extruded products operation, and...
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Universal Tube opens division company
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, Perrysburg, Ohio, has announced the opening of another division company, Universal Controls Group USA, which...
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AK Steel to build large-diameter tube mill
AK Steel, Middletown, Ohio, has invested $8.5 million at its wholly owned subsidiary, AK Tube LLC, to produce large-diameter stainless tubing that...
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Accumet offers fabrication of refractory metals
Accumet Materials Co., Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., offers precision fabrication of tantalum and other refractory metals such as molybdenum and...
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Ryerson Inc. confirms new name, ticker symbol
Ryerson Inc. has confirmed that its previously announced corporate name now is in effect as is the concurrent adoption of the ticker symbol "RYI"...
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Software theater demonstrates pipe cut programming
Mazak Optonics, Schaumburg, Ill., hosted a real-time software theater at FABTECH Intl./AWS that demonstrated the use of FG CAD/CAM software for...
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Alpine Pipe installs welding machine
Thermatool Corp., East Haven, Conn., has announced the start-up of a CFI 1200 solid-state induction welding machine at Alpine Pipe Mfg. Sdn. Bhd.,...
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Mueller Industries to produce copper tube in China
Mueller Industries Inc. announced today that it has acquired a 50.5 percent joint venture interest in China to manufacture copper tube, primarily...
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Ryerson Tull appoints director
The Board of Directors of Ryerson Tull Inc. has appointed Dennis J. Keller to the company's board of directors. Keller is chairman of the board...
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TIMET announces joint venture in China
Titanium Metals Corp. (TIMET) has announced the formation of XI'AN BAOTIMET VALINOX TUBES CO. LTD., an equity joint venture company formed to...
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United Tube Corp. appoints vice president
United Tube Corp., Medina, Ohio, has named J.M. Bretz as vice president. In his new position, Bretz is responsible for the sales and marketing...
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Plymouth Tube Co. delivers to U.S. Dept. of Energy
Plymouth delivers heat exchangers to U.S. Department of EnergyPlymouth Tube Co., Warrenville, Ill., is preparing to ship the final orders of the...
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IPSCO announces expansion of pipe mill operations
IPSCO, Lisle, Ill., has announced an expansion to the current oil country tubular goods heat treat capacity at its Calgary, Alberta,plant. In...
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Dofasco completes Copperweld segment acquisition
Dofasco Inc., Hamilton, Ont., announced today that it has successfully completed the acquisition of certain assets of Copperweld Holding Company...
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USW pipe workers, producers fighting China imports
U.S. pipe workers and seven standard pipe producers are being joined by members of Congress, steel suppliers, and customers in an effort to stop...
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Roll-Kraft continues seminars
Roll-Kraft recently completed its summer seminar series at its headquarters in Mentor, Ohio. The tube and pipe seminar provided information on...
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Sharon Tube announces plant expansion
Sharon Tube Co., Sharon, Pa., has announced a miltimillion dollar expansion to its Wheatland, Pa., cold draw facility. Cold drawing equipment and...
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Charlotte Pipe and Foundry launches redesigned Web site
Charlotte Pipe and Foundry, Charlotte, N.C., has launched its redesigned Web site. The redesigned site provides customers with information...
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Redman changes name to Tubesource
Redman Mfg. Co., Ferndale, Mich., has changed its name to Tubesource. According to President Brad VanderBrug, the name change is part of the...
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T&H Lemont installs two stainless steel tube mills
T&H Lemont, Countryside, Ill., has installed two WU11M-11 quick-change stainless steel tube mills. The integrated mill systems can produce...
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IPSCO appoints Canadian Tubular Products business development director
IPSCO has appointed Linda D'Angelo as director, business development, of Canadian Tubular Products. D'Angelo has more than 18 years' experience...
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SMS Demag appoints North American sales manager
SMS Demag Inc. has appointed Mario Fabro as North American sales manager — Long Product Rolling Mills. He is responsible for managing all...
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Lincoln Electric joins Pipeline Research Council
The Lincoln Electric Co. has been admitted into the Pipeline Research Council Intl. (PRCI) as an associate member. The company joins General...
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Sharon Tube receives recognition
On January 4, 2005, Sharon Tube Co. was selected to participate in the U.S. Army's "Soldier to Supplier" program. The program recognizes key...
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Tex-Tube names general manager
Tex-Tube Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Villacero, a Mexican steelmaker and rebar producer, has named Isidro Cantu as general manager. Cantu...
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IPSCO establishes Frontier Pipe Research Unit
IPSCO Inc. today announced an investment of $3.5 million to set up a Frontier Pipe Research Unit specifically dedicated to accelerating...
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Plymouth Tube to acquire Trent Tube's CWA plant
Plymouth Tube Co. has signed a letter of intent to acquire Trent Tube's cold work anneal (CWA) plant located in East Troy, Wis. Syracuse,...
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Victaulic launches new corporate Web site
Victaulic Co., a producer of mechanical pipe joining systems, has launched its newly designed Web site intended to better serve the information...
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