TPT July 2014

Industry News

Tube and wire 2014 review MORE than 2,500 international exhibitors from the wire, cable and tube industries can look back on five successful trade fair days. Inspired by the upswing of the steel market, the exhibiting companies presented their product innovations at the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre during the trade fairs Tube 2014 and wire 2014. again, wire and Tube recorded exhibitor growth as well as a significant increase in booked exhibition space.” The exhibitors presented themselves to 72,000 trade visitors who travelled to the exhibition halls from 104 different countries to learn about the latest machines, equipment and products for the wire, cable and tube processing industries.

spectrum of offerings. Machines and equipment for the manufacture of profiles and their end products were presented in a variety of forms and materials. The areas of tube trade and OCTG technology again covered a large area. Trade fair guests at Tube came from a total of 62 countries. Visitors came primarily from Italy, France, the USA, the Netherlands, India, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic and the UK. 64 per cent of all trade fair visitors came from industry, 18 per cent from trade and 6 per cent from craft. Visitors were primarily interested in tubes (54 per cent), machines for tube processing (24 per cent), machines for tube reprocessing (23 per cent), raw materials (21 per cent) and machines for tube manufacture (20 per cent). wire and Tube once again take place simultaneously in 2016, from 4 to 8 April in Düsseldorf. Information on the trade fairs can be found on the respective websites, www.wire.de and www.tube. de Messe Düsseldorf GmbH – Germany Fax: +49 211 4560 87541 Email: infoservice@messe-duesseldorf.de Website: www.messe-duesseldorf.com

“The trade fairs took place at exactly the right time. Now several companies are planning on investing in order to position themselves for continued competition,” commented Joachim Schäfer, managing director accountable for the fairs at Messe Düsseldorf. “Once

Tube 2014 took place in halls 1 to 7 and in hall 7a. More than 1,200 exhibitors from 47 nations showed their innovations on approximately 50,000m 2 of total exhibition space. This represents a 3.1 per cent increase in exhibiting companies and close to a 4 per cent increase in booked space compared with the previous event in 2012. Tube presented the entire spectrum, from manufacturing to processing, to reprocessing and tube trade. The offerings ranged from raw materials, tubes and accessories, machines for tube production and tools for process engineering to auxiliary materials, as well as measurement and control technology. Test engineering and special areas such as warehouse automation and control systems rounded off the broad of a large range of pipe sizes, including large diameters, with minimal transducer adjustments during size changeovers. Because the transducers are under the pipe, no tight fitting glands or shoes are needed, resulting in lower water circulation requirements, fewer wear components and virtually no changes required to the basic water tank on size changeover. The spinning tube transducer system can also be used for testing tube ends, as well as for a retrofit or upgrade of existing installations. A Rotomac ® eddy current rotary and coil platform will also be on display. Information will be presented on test systems using a combination of more than one type of test technology, a

Seminar on choosing the right NDT techniques

requirement to meet many stringent test standards such as API and ASTM, as well as information on inspection of specific products. Knowledgeable field staff will provide information in multiple languages on all of the company’s products. Guests will include vice president Dudley Boden; Casey Powers, systems engineer; Paloma Domenico, advertising manager; David Terry, business development manager for SE-Asia; and Jerry Zhu, business development manager for China. Magnetic Analysis Corporation – USA Fax: +1 914 703 3790

With more than 85 years of experience in designing and manufacturing non- destructive test instruments and systems for the metals industry, Magnetic Analysis Corp (MAC) is to host a seminar later this year in South-East Asia. The event will take place in Shanghai, China, on 23 September. Building on the success of the Echomac ® rotary ultrasonic testers, the company will be featuring a new spinning tube ultrasonic test system at the seminar. This system features a unique APC (automatic pitch control) transducer carrier that contains the water couplant and follows and adjusts to the pitch of the tube as it rotates through the tester. This allows testing

Email: info@mac-ndt.com Website: www.mac-ndt.com

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