TPi January 2008

steel stainless

New brand in the tube market

portfolio includes more than 1,000 standard size tubes produced frommore than 100 corrosion and heat resistant steel grades, in seven segments: general pipes, boiler tubes, heat-exchanger tubing, instrumental tubing, furnace tubes, hollow bars and Ni-alloy tubes. The company’s products are used in chemical and petrochemical industries, nuclear and thermal power engineering, non-ferrous metallurgy, machine and shipbuilding, food and other industries.

a transparent corporate management structure on investment and bond markets. For general public Centravis is a socially and environmentally responsible company. The company reinvests into the country, creates jobs and ensures budgetary tax proceeds, thus improving life of people in Ukraine.” All major Centravis clients and partners, industrial experts and analysts were invited to the presentations in Maastricht and Moscow. The company’s product

A new stainless steel tube brand – International Holding Centravis – was launched in November 2007, at two prestigious exhibitions held in Europe and CIS countries. The Centravis presentation for the Western European market took place on 6 November within the framework of the Stainless Steel World Exhibition in Maastricht, the Netherlands. For CIS countries, the brand was presented by Mr Yuriy Atanasov, Centravis chief executive officer, within the framework of the Metal-Expo exhibition held in Moscow, Russia, on 13 November. The speakers presented their vision of the current situation in the industry of seamless stainless steel tubes to the international community, and gave their detailed appraisal of the challenges put forth by the market to the industry’s major players. Along with this, the top management team, the new company strategy and business principles were also presented. Centravis’s strategic objective is to become a global player with European business culture and European quality and service in the world market of seamless stainless tubes. Mr Shirokobrod said, “For our clients the new brand is, first of all, the wide range of high-quality tubes at competitive prices, flexible service and modern business thinking, transparent management style with clear client orientation. For our suppliers this is a reliable partner, long- term business growth and excellent quality level of the production, as it was before. Moreover, due to our innovations and more sophisticated product solutions we intend to ensure our partner’s technology improvement.” Mr Atanasov commented, “We have been showing permanent growth and stable financial position in the international market for years, along with setting the standards for Ukrainian business. This is why I claim with confidence that for our financial partners the new brand will be an attractive and creditworthy partner with Mr Ilya Shirokobrod, Centravis sales and marketing director, was the presenter.

Centravis – Ukraine www.centravis.com

High-performance check valves

WEH, Germany, produces a check valve for applications where gaseous and liquid media require leak-tight connections.

New manufacturing processes, materials and techniques put increasing demands on check valve properties, especially with regard to pressure range, flow characteristics, temperature and leak-tightness. Further features are maintainability, corrosion resistance and customer-specific cracking pressures. The WEH check valves combine all these properties.

WEH offers check valves with thread connections, and also with ferrule fittings, flanges, hose nozzles, nipples or custom-designed press-in valves, even

for small quantities. The check valves are silent in use, even under high flow requirements, and offer minimum opening pressures from 0.01 bar onwards, and high leak tightness. The WEH check valves can be used for a large range of applications in mechanical engineering and construction, chemical/pharmaceutical and food industry, materials-handling and medical technology, and vary in construction and material. The check valve system is designed to minimise the effect of dirt particles on the sealing components within the unit. The valves are manufactured from stainless

WEH’s check valve series p

steel, or other materials on request, and have a robust interior construction making them very durable in operation. The check valves are available for different dimensions and connections, including special sizes, with materials suitable for the requested media, and are rated to 1,000 bar maximum pressure.

The valves are manufactured according to quality assurance standard ISO 9001 and the pressure equipment directive (PED).

WEH’s product line also includes quick connectors for pressure, function and leak testing, as well as for filling of gases and refrigerants, complete filling rigs and gas mixing plants.

WEH GmbH – Germany webinfo@weh.com • www.weh.com

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January 2008 Tube Products International