TPI July 2014

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Tube and wire 2014 in 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 and Tube 2014 and wire 2014. 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.

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 infoservice@messe-duesseldorf.de 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 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.

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 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.

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Patent Office continues to recognise LMK’s innovations for rehabilitating main-to-lateral sewer connections. Protecting our intellectual property promotes the advancement of pipe rehabilitation technologies and is consistent with our ongoing commitment to our customers and installation contractors.” LMK Technologies specialises in trenchless methods to renew lateral sewer infrastructure, and has more than one hundred United States and foreign patents relating to pipeline rehabilitation technologies. The company serves the municipal and residential markets through a network of licensed contractors.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued two patents to LMK Technologies, LLC, relating to the use of hydrophilic materials to help seal the junction between main and lateral sewer pipes. US Patent 8,667,991 is directed to a gasket of hydrophilic rubber used in combination with a lining assembly to rehabilitate the pipe junction and a portion of the lateral pipe. The patent also covers technology using a hydrophilic paste for sealing about the pipe juncture. US Patent 8,667,992 includes additional claims relating to the use of hydrophilic paste in main/lateral pipelining applications.

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July 2014 Tube Products International