TPi October 2008

High-precision tubes Smal l diameter International supplier to the aerospace, oil and gas industries

TW markets and exports its products worldwide. Gail Thomas, managing director, reports that the company now exports over 56% of its sales to 136 countries around the globe. TW International has facilities in France, Poland, India, Singapore and China, supporting global offload to the major aerospace companies such as Boeing, Airbus, and Rolls Royce. It further supports oil, gas and petrochemical industries for a wide variety of uses such as down hole drilling. The company has implemented a state-of-the-art automated information system, adopted the latest concepts in supply chain management, installed new processing equipment and also enhanced its delivery system.

TW Metals Ltd, based in Southampton, UK, is the international headquarters of a wholly owned private USA company that stocks, processes and distributes speciality metals. The company’s product range includes, tube, pipe, bar and rod in stainless, aluminium, alloy, and carbon, as well as a variety of high alloys such as nickel and titanium.

TW opened in Southampton in 1963 as Tubesales Ltd, and established itself as a distributor of instrumentation tube. The company was rebranded as TW in 1998. The company’s major markets are aerospace (both airframe and engine), and oil, gas and petrochemical.

Tubes from refractory metals

DNEPR-GL Ltd, Ukraine, specialises in the manufacture and sale of tubes made from alloys based on refractory metals. The company has established high-tech intensive production of tubes of refractory metals (RMT) using its own manufacturing capabilities, jointly with the leading specialists from this field.

TW Metals Ltd – UK sales@twmetals.com www.twmetals.co.uk

DNEPR-GL manufactures tubes from 0.3 to ▲ ▲ 55mm

Tubes from refractory metals are used in produced

Precision steel pipe from China

industries including aerospace, aviation, nuclear power engineering, defence, machine building, electronics and electric engineering, and medicine. The tubes are an irreplaceable construction material for the production of components and units of special machinery used for operation in an aggressive medium and in temperatures above 1,000ºC. DNEPR-GL’s manufactured products are completely ready for operation and require no additional processing. The tubes are produced only out of certified billets. The company uses special high-precision equipment, vacuum methods of heat treatment and modern technologies of chemical treatment and finishing of ready products. The high-precision technologies used allow the company to produce thin wall tubes including capillary tubes, tubes of any steel grades including refractory metals (tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium and alloys on their base). The main size range is from 0.3 to 55mm and wall thickness from 20µm to 20mm. The market of refractory products is rapidly developing. Great demand for tube products of this segment is stimulated by fast development of robotics and instrument making, electronics, machine-building, chemical and petrochemical industry, space and military industry as well as mastering of new technologies. For instance, the demand for molybdenum tubes from Russian companies is more than 2,000kg annually. The market has increased during the last 2-3 years mainly due to military-industrial complex enterprises. Production and consumption of tubes made from tungsten, titanium, and zirconium tubes for atomic power engineering is increasing rapidly.

Wuxi Tianlong Steel Pipe Co, Ltd is a Chinese and foreign jointly-funded company located in Development Zone, Xishan District, Wuxi City. The company manufactures precise steel pipe, and owns three production lines, with associated equipment for plate-rolling and scissoring. The company produces various gauges of high frequency welding steel pipe, between Ø32 and Ø165, with a production capacity of 40,000 tons. Its products are used in applications including air-conditioning compression tanks, belt conveyors, steam exhaust pipes and vibration absorber pipes for automotive lines. Wuxi Tianlong Steel Pipe Co, Ltd – China tianlong@wxtlgg.com www.wxtlgg.com

DNEPR-GL Ltd – Ukraine dnepr-gl@a-teleport.com • www.dnepr-gl.com.ua

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Tube Products International October 2008

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