TPi September 2017

business & market news

MRC to open new Gulf Coast regional distribution centre

and Darien Street in Houston, Texas, to the new facility as well as two other satellite locations to provide an efficient and seamless experience to support our Gulf Coast customers. As part of the facility, we are also building a state-of-the-art valve actuation centre (VAC), a fulfilment centre for our online MRCGO™ catalogue, and establishing a hub for technical PVF excellence.” Mr Lane continued, “In addition to our valve, automation, measurement and instrumentation product offerings, we will supply our stainless and high alloy product lines from the new RDC as well as our traditional gas utility, carbon pipe, fitting and flange and oilfield supply products.” The new facility is strategically located near many of MRC Global’s downstream refining and chemical customers. It has

MRC Global (US) Inc, the US subsidiary of pipe, valves and fittings distributor MRC Global Inc, has entered into 15-year leases with a unit of Liberty Property Trust to open a new regional distribution centre (RDC) and operational hub for the Gulf Coast area in La Porte, Texas. The new facility will house over 400,000 ft 2 of warehouse space, more than 75,000 ft 2 of office space and an extensive pipe yard to support MRC Global’s customers in the refining and chemical market. “MRC Global is excited to open this new facility, which will be our largest distribution centre in our global operations and one of the largest warehouses for a single distribution company in the Houston area,” said MRC Global president and CEO Andrew R Lane. “We plan to relocate our operations at Galena Park, Texas,

ready access to rail at the facility and to the container terminals at Barbours Cut Terminal and the Bayport Terminal, both of which are less than three miles away. MRC Global expects the RDC to be operational in late 2017, and the adjacent offices to be ready in the third quarter of 2018. MRC Global Inc – USA www.mrcglobal.com

Molecor expands PVC-O production capacity in South Africa

second production line. The plant, located in Richards Bay (KwaZulu-Natal region), now has a production capacity of 8,000t/year in the manufacture of TOM ® PVC-O pipes under the licence of Molecor technology, for the southern African countries. With this expansion the company will have access to large water projects with water pipes of large diameters and high pressures, manufactured with the Molecor technology, which allows the automatic production of TOM PVC-O pipes with pipe-to-pipe quality control, ensuring the reliability of the product throughout its useful life. Molecor Tecnologia SL – Spain

Molecor, a developer of molecular orientation technology applied to the conveyance of water under pressure, has expanded the production capacity of oriented PVC pipes (PVC-O) in South Africa, with the installation of a second manufacturing line. The company and its partner Sizabantu Piping Systems Pty Ltd have already supplied thousands of kilometres of PVC-O pipelines on the African continent, certified according to the specifications of the South African standard SANS 16422. Molecor South Africa was inaugurated in 2016 with the implementation of a production line for PVC-O pipes, and a year later, the production capacity is doubling with the start-up of this

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