TPT September 2007

Industry News

Cincinnati

Extrusion

Business Briefs Cont…

GmbH (www.cet-austria. com), Austria, has launched a new online shop for its Alpha extruders. The four

business briefs cont…

The Linde Group (www. linde.com) has concluded the sale of its packaged gases business in the USA to the industrial gases company,

TubeMart (www.tubemart. com) have appointed Tube Fabrication Machinery Ltd (TFML), UK, as one of their network of global dealerships

standard extruder models are available for purchase at www.my-alpha.com. The Alpha single-screw extruder series is tailored to the production of small profiles, and around 400 units have already been sold.

Airgas Inc . Linde will retain certain packaged gases accounts relating to its independent distributors, including acetylene production sites and filling plants. The Linde Group is a world-leading industrial gases, medical gases and engineering company with around 49,000 employees working in more than 70 countries worldwide.

and exclusive UK representative. With AddisonMckee as its parent company, TubeMart combines the widest choice of machinery from leading manufacturers into one highly comprehensive catalogue. It is claimed to be the new single source method of choosing high-quality, mid-range tube manipulation solutions.

AddisonMckee

(www.

addisonmckee.com), USA and UK, have appointed Mr Sung Soo Kim as their service engineer for South

Korea. Mr Kim began his role supporting AddisonMckee’s growing Korean customer base in May 2007. He will be assisted by AddisonMckee’s regional machine and consumables manufacturing and supply facility in China.

Unison (www.unisonltd. com), UK, has achieved the prestigious ISO 14001 standard for its Environmental Management System,

Socotherm Americas (www.socotherm.com) has been awarded a US$20mn contract by the Venezuelan Oil Company PDVSA . This

alongside the better-known ISO 9001 accreditation for its Quality Systems. These two awards have confirmed the company’s internal and industry-wide policies in energy-efficiency.

contract will involve 3-layer polyethylene and concrete weight coating, and cathodic protection of large diameter pipes for the Barbacoa-Margarita project (phase II). This 135km gas line will run from Anzoátegui State to Isla Margarita, and includes two landlines of 20km and 86km and a submarine line of 26km.

Fusion

UV

Systems

Inc (www.fusionuv.com), specialist in ultraviolet curing systems, has appointed Kendrolab Spólka zoo

(www.kendrolab.pl) as its exclusive distributor for Poland. The company will add Fusion UV products to its inventory of multi- brand laboratory and medical equipment, and Heraeus infrared and UV lamps. Order your subscription @:

IMechE , The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (www. imeche.org), has appointed leading energy engineer Mr John Baxter as its 122 nd

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Trumpf (www.us.trumpf.com), USA, has officially opened its company headquarters in the Trutec building in Seoul, South Korea. The new offices

president, replacing Mr Alec Osborn (MBE). Mr Baxter is currently group engineering director at BP, and his inaugural speech focussed on the immediate need for industry and government to work together with engineers to combat climate change. Mr Baxter promised to champion the IMechE’s key themes: education, energy, environment and transport.

are located in ‘Digital Media City’, with four of the building’s twelve stories occupied by Trumpf Korea. Trumpf has had a subsidiary in Korea since 1997 and has become one of the region’s leading machine tool companies.

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