TPi January 2010

Steel tube and chrome bar manufacturer from India PTC Alliance Corporation manufactures drawn over mandrel (DOM) steel tubes and chrome bars used by the fluid power and automobile industries. The company, along with subsidiary Wiederholt, claims to be the largest manufacturer of drawn over mandrel steel tubes in the world. The companies’ products find application as cylinder and piston rod parts in hydraulic cylinders fitted in equipment for construction, material handling and excavation and as axles, steering, drive shafts, shock absorbers, and stabiliser bars. The company has been a pioneer in innovating new products, such as lighter weight tubes with higher strengths, tubes with closer tolerances to improve performance and reduce costs, and bars with improved life cycles, while adopting green technologies. Founded in 2004, subsidiary company PTC Alliance (UK) Limited provides support to customers in the European region. New company PTC Alliance Precision Products (Asia) Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of the parent American company, incorporated recently in Chennai, India, intends to extend the scope of the operations to cover the Asian Region. The new company will promote marketing and distribution of products in the Asian Region while actively pursuing opportunities to outsource products and services from Asia to Europe and Northern America. Tubes in stainless steel Sedes Group, Italy, designs and produces electrical heating elements for industry and household appliances, such as flexible heating cables, aluminium and foil heaters, various insulated etched-foil heating elements, heating bands, stainless steel tubular heaters, cartridges, self-regulating cables and constant power cables. With its experience and knowledge in stainless steel tubular heating element production, the group is also specialised in the production of round steel tubes. The company’s production process makes use of profiling machinery for the manufacturing of electrowelded tubes in stainless steel, from 4.5 to 16mm in diameter, with minimum thickness of 0.35mm, and in lengths from 500 to 6,000mm. Alloys used include austenitic (AISI 300 series) and refractory high nickel content (alloy 800, 825, 840, alloy 600-601). All products can be manufactured according to standard specifications and different market applications (refrigeration, heating and food sectors). PTC Alliance Precision Products (Asia) Pvt Ltd – India www.ptcalliance.com

Sedes Group Srl – Italy info@sedesgroup.it • www.sedesgroup.it

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January 2010 Tube Products International