TPi January 2008

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With over 53,000 tons in 2006, Argentina exported a lot more steel tubes/pipes to the EU than the USA. Here too, it was mainly seamless pipes and tubes (almost 51,000 tons), more than half of which were exported to Italy, while Great Britain was the second most important EU market for the Argentineans. EU imports from Mexico (around 18,200 tons) were much lower. These were also mainly seamless tubes. It is not foreseeable how the sub-prime mortgage crisis originating from the USA will impact on the world economy in the long term. Apart from this, the positive trend in the steel pipe/tube industry, which has been continuing for several years, is based on the strong, powerful growth of the world economy with a special focus on the threshold countries and continuing heavy demand by the energy industry. As before, this has led to strong demand for oil-field, pipeline and boiler pipes/tubes. This is complemented by a positive, encouraging order situation for other seamless and welded steel pipes/tubes which are used in major infrastructure projects worldwide. The positive market perspectives are also reflected in the different investments made by the companies within the sector at the most diverse locations. In addition to China, Russia and Eastern Europe, there is also an expansion of capacities in other regions such as the USA and Brazil.

EuroBLECH 2008 show

The 2008 EuroBLECH trade show will be held in Hanover, Germany, 21-25 October 2008.

The exhibition will cover the entire sheet metal working technology chain, including areas such as sheet metal, tube and sections (ferrous and non-ferrous); finished products, components and assemblies; handling; separation and cutting; forming; flexible sheet metal working; tube and section processing; joining, welding and fastening; surface treatment of sheet metal; and tools and dies.

Entrance tickets for the event will be available online from August 2008. Tickets can also be purchased on-site on all exhibition open days.

Mack Brooks Exhibitions Ltd – UK info@euroblech.com • www.euroblech.com

Spiral-welded large pipes, powder- coated on the inside as well as outside, in highly robust steel qualities, are in demand on the international stage and are used, for example, in two ambitious pipeline projects in the USA. The Rockies Express Pipeline, is a mega pipeline extending over a total of 2,100km, making it the longest US pipeline to have been built in the last 20 years. Used for transporting natural gas from the producing stations in the Rocky Mountains to the east of the USA, the pipeline uses 335km of Salzgitter pipes. A further 215km of spiral pipes are to be used in the construction of the complete Lousiana Pipeline, which transports natural gas

– following its re-conversion – in the form of liquid gas from the Gulf of Mexico to inland Lousiana. The steel pipe and tube sector therefore has a great deal of momentum as it approaches the next Tube exhibition – 31 March to 4 April 2008 in Düsseldorf. Product focal points will include tubes and tube products, manufacturing and processing machinery, tools such as measuring, control, regulating and testing technology appliances. Around 960 exhibitors are expected, along with 30,000+ visitors. Messe Düsseldorf GmbH – Germany infoservice@messe-duesseldorf.de www.messe-duesseldorf.de

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