TPI July 2012

business & market news

Derby success just the start for SSC

Sales director Andy Evans said of the new set- up, “It’s ironic because the factory we have moved into is on the old Qualcast site on Victory Road in Derby and our sister company, Turfmech Machinery, recently

SSC Laser has successfully launched a new manufacturing site in the East Midlands, UK. The laser cutting specialist established the new Derby factory in January and the site is now fully operational. The firm, a specialist in sub contract laser profiling, announced record turnover of over £5mn at the end of August 2011 and plans are now in place to open further UK manufacturing sites as early as this year, with the North East the first likely beneficiary.

SSC Laser cutting

Mr Evans said, “These are really exciting times for us. We have opened a sales office in Slough at Regus on the Bath Road and that office now employs two people. Lawrence Cairns is the Southern sales manager and he has been joined by Ian Coltman as a sales estimator. The plan is for Lawrence and Ian to build the business over the next 18 to 24 months and we will then commit to a manufacturing facility in the area.” Sunderland, which missed out to Derby inbecoming the firm’s firstmanufacturing facility outside of Staffordshire, may welcome expansion later this year.

acquired the manufacturing rights to build Qualcast mowers at our factory in Hixon near Stafford.” Derby is the first of what is planned to be an aggressive roll out of manufacturing operations for

SSC Laser, which has sales offices around the UK.

The

company,

which also provides press- braking, laser scanning and an in-house CAD service, harbours ambitions to establish SSC Laser operations in every major city in the UK.

SSC Laser Cutting – UK sales@steelservicecentre.co.uk www.steelservicecentre.co.uk

Team members of SSC Laser, Derby

Tubing with premium connections receives certification

TMK operates 24 production sites in the USA, Russia, Romania and Kazakhstan, and two R&D centres in Russia and the USA. In 2011, the company’s pipe shipments totalled 4.23mn tonnes. The largest share of its sales belongs to high margin oil country tubular goods (OCTG), shipped to customers in 85 countries. The company delivers its products along with an extensive package of services in heat treating, protective coating, premium connections threading, warehousing and pipe repairing.

were subjected to the 80% compression level.

TMK, a producer of tubular products for the oil and gas industry, has successfully conducted certification of tubing with TMK PF premium connections in accordance with the ISO 13679 CAL IV standard. The tests were conducted at the Oil States Industries international testing centre, Aberdeen, UK. This was the first certification of TMK tubing threaded with premium connections according to this standard. The testing qualification programme was conducted by TMK-Premium Service, which presented grade L80 tubing threaded with TMK PF premium connections. During the testing, pipes

“Successful certification of TMK PF premium connections on both casing and tubing in accordance with the ISO 13679 CAL IV standard gives us the opportunity to supply an all- inclusive pipe string fully certified under this standard for use in the well,” said Sergei Bilan, vice president of premium products and services at TMK. “Completion of this certification serves as confirmation of the world quality level of our threads and allows us to enter the league of the leading global suppliers of tubular products for complex drilling both onshore and offshore.”

TMK – Russia tmk@tmk-group.com www.tmk-group.com

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