TPi October 2012

products & developments

Fine Tubes presents ‘power’ products Fine Tubes Ltd has reported that its participation in the Power-Gen India & Central-Asia exhibition earlier this year has generated great interest in the company’s product range of high specification seamless, welded and welded-redrawn tubes. Power-Gen, being an important power-related conference and exhibition, was the next step for the UK tube manufacturer in advancing its presence in the Indian nuclear and power market after opening a sales office in Delhi last year. presence showed that major industry players that hadn’t heard of us before were very impressed with the quality of tubes and the fact that we already supply to India-based corporations such as Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Larsen & Toubro and Reliance.”

the addition of value adding processes such as bending, electro polishing, encapsulation and specialist profiles.” Fine Tubes manufactures high quality precision tubes in stainless steel, nickel, titanium and zirconium alloys, and has been developing high quality tubes for the nuclear and power industry for over 40 years. Early life-cycle involvement in product engineering, material selection and development are the prerequisites to Fine Tubes’ commitment to this industry. Thecompanysupplieshighspecification tubes for applications such as fuel cladding, control rod drive mechanisms, stator windings, thermocouples, optical fibre cables, steam generators, heat exchangers, condensers, boilers, super pressure heaters, leak detection, and instrumentation and control tubing. In addition to the usual ASTM and ASME standards, Fine Tubes can supply tubing compliant to ASME III and RCC-M code.

Gagan Sood, business development executive for Fine Tubes, who heads the local sales office in Delhi, added, “Our first-time participation at the show gave us an insight into the latest developments taking place in the Indian power sector, especially with the introduction of the supercritical technology. Visitors to our stand ranged from power plant owners, EPC contractors to equipment manufacturers and fabricators involved in various methods of power generation including nuclear, thermal, gas, hydro and solar.” Mr Sood explained, “Most of the visitors to our stand – procurement managers, QA personnel and senior engineers – engaged in technical discussions about the range of applications we cater for in the power sector. Our technical expertise in manufacturing high specification tubes is complemented by Over the years, Europipe GmbH and its predecessor companies have manufactured over 30 million tonnes of large diameter pipe – enough to circle the Earth twice. The Europipe group today has production sites in Europe (M ü lheim ad Ruhr, Germany; Dunkerque, France) and the USA (BSPC, Panama City, Florida; and BSPM, Mobile, Alabama) producing annually over 3,000km of longitudinally and helically submerged arc welded large diameter pipe for pipeline projects throughout the world. The production for SAWL large diameter pipe ranges from 508 to 1,524mm (20" to 60") outside diameter with wall thicknesses from 7 to 45mm and lengths up to 18m (60ft). In SAWH execution the

“Power-Gen India has been a great success and amilestone in our marketing activities in India,” commented Bettina Schadow, marketing executive at Fine Tubes. “A prime stand location combined with our overall presentation and tube samples on display attracted a constant stream of visitors and great interest in our product range. We generated a high level of quality leads in the various power sectors, which will help us immensely in our plans to further develop this geographical market. Our

Fine Tubes Ltd – UK sales@fine-tubes.co.uk www.finetubes.com

SAWL and SAWH large diameter pipe

OD ranges from 610 to 1,422mm (24" to 56") with wall thicknesses from 8 to 20mm and lengths up to 24m (80ft). Europipe is a major pipe supplier for ultra-large projects, such as the Nord Stream Pipeline I + II, Baltic Sea (Europipe quantity 1,800km, or 1.6 M tons), and Ichthys, Australia (Europipe quantity 540km, or 410,000 tons). The Europipe group’s range of competence includes high-strength pipe (X 80 to X 100); HIC-resistant pipe (all grades up to X 70); and collapse- resistant pipe (optimisation of geometry and grade).

Europipe GmbH – Germany europipe@europipe.com www.europipe.com

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