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The Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group, Zwijndrecht, Netherlands, has acquired the business of Ferrostaal Piping Supply, a pipe and tube trading company in Essen, Germany, that primarily supplies the chemical, petrochemical, and machine building segments. The activities of the Dutch branch of...
C. Marshall Fabrication Machinery Inc. has sold one of the longest plate rolls ever built to Armor Lite Excel LLC, a trailer manufacturer in Sikeston, Mo. The machine, made by MG s.r.l., located in Fossano, Italy, was transported on five flatbed trucks. The model M8014E is a 26-ft. by 9/16-in....
The Welser Profile group, a Chicago-based provider of custom-made cold roll formed sections and tubes made from steel, stainless steel, and nonferrous materials, has named Geoff Repp as vice president of sales and business development. Repp has extensive experience in sales, business development,...
Chicago-based Zekelman Industries, a steel pipe and tube manufacturer, has announced its partial sponsorship of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation's 2018 Work Ethic Scholarship Program. The program awards scholarships to people attending trade schools to learn skills that are in demand, such as welding,...
Schuler has developed Pipe ID 4.0, a comprehensive, real-time process control system for manufacturing large pipes. It features a track-and-trace system, OEE monitoring, condition monitoring, smart diagnostics, and power monitoring. Product data acquisition is particularly important when inspecting...
OmegaFlex®, a designer and manufacturer of flexible metal piping in Exton, Pa., has announced the company is distributing a one-time $1,000 discretionary incentive payment to all its employees as part of the new federal tax law changes. Payments will be made to all employees in operations and...
SMS group will install a 500,000-tons-per-year merchant bar mill at Nucor Steel Kankakee Inc., Bourbonnais, Ill. Production is scheduled to begin in 2019. The mill will be designed to produce a variety of merchant bar products to complement the existing product portfolio, equal and unequal angles...
Warrenville, Ill.-based Plymouth Tube has announced that its Trent Mill in East Troy, Wis., has received Nadcap accreditation for nondestructive testing.
The company is a supplier of specialty tubing in carbon steel, alloy steel, stainless steel, and nickel alloy.
Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., will build a rebar micro mill in Frostproof, Fla. The $240 million facility is expected to employ about 250 people and have an annual capacity of 350,000 tons. Construction is expected to take two years. The company and its affiliates are manufacturers of steel...
Lebanon, Ohio-based Addition Mfg. Technologies, a provider of advanced automated systems for metal tube forming, has announced a number of staff changes. Scott Morling has been named CEO. His previous experience includes nine years in management positions with Delphi Automotive Systems, as well as...
Chicago-based Zekelman Industries, an independent steel pipe and tube manufacturer and provider of modular construction technology, has announced that each of its 2,300 employees will receive a $1,000 annual bonus beginning when President Trump's planned steel trade policy changes take effect, for...
Rafter Equipment Corp., a manufacturer of tube mills, pipe mills, roll forming machines, cutoff machines, and related tube and pipe mill machinery in Strongsville, Ohio, has shipped an RT-4000S single-sided turkshead straightener with 2-axis motorized adjustments to a North American heavy-wall tube...
The Steel Tube Institute (STI), Glenview, Ill., predicts another year of high demand for steel conduit. This strong outlook is based on discussions at recent meetings with industry leaders, contractors, and engineers. At the December 2017 meeting of the Construction Sustainability Council, the...
Aachener Maschinenbau GmbH (AMBA) offers new all-in-one machines for producing cold-formed tubes. These machines are the first in the world to produce tubes with varying cross sections in just one continuous cycle, the manufacturer says. According to the company, the first tube manufacturer to use...
Warrenville, Ill.-based Plymouth Tube Co., a privately held, family-owned manufacturer of precision steel tubing and steel and titanium near-net and cold-drawn shapes, has named Drew Van Pelt as president/CEO. He joins the company as Donald Van Pelt Jr., who served as president/CEO for 18...
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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.