TPT March 2011

T he M arch I ssue Welcome to the latest issue of Tube & Pipe Technology magazine, which this month features a comprehensive feature on inspection, testing and quality control, automotive tube and pipe manufacturing and all the information that you need on Tube Russia. Please come and say hello to our team at our stand there. And a big thank you to everyone who came and showed such a great interest in the magazine at Tube Arabia in January. From what I hear this year’s Boru is set to break all records for attendance in terms of visitors and exhibitors and with the Turkish economy doing so well in terms of growth any company would be wise to get involved. We will be there with plenty of magazines and the more handy to carry CD versions for you to read on your laptop on the flight home. Next up is our May issue and we will be featuring articles on tube mills & roll forming machines and OCTG & pipeline manufacturing and all the latest industry and technology news so please do send me your information by the

Editor • Rory McBride Features editor (USA) • Dorothy Fabian

• Christian Bradley

Editorial assistant

• Lisa Benjamin

Production

• Catherine Sayers catherine@intras.co.uk English speaking sales • Giuliana Benedetto giuliana@intras.co.uk Italian sales • Hendrike Morriss hendrike@intras.co.uk German speaking sales • Doug Zirkle doug@intras.co.uk US & Canada sales • Linda Li linda@intras.co.uk Chinese sales • Jeroo Vandrevala jeroo@intras.co.uk Indian sales

Sales & marketing

deadline of 14 March. Rory McBride – Editor

• Liz Hughes

Advertising co-ordinators

• Andrea McIntosh

• Liz Hughes

Subscriptions

• Richard Babbedge

Accounts manager

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• Caroline Sullens

Publisher

• John C Hogg

Founder

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Taiyuan Tongze Heavy Industry Co Ltd Taiyuan Tongze Heavy Industry Co Ltd (TZCE) was founded in August 2001. The design centre of the company is the provincial technology center of Shanxi province. It is equipped with 13 technical offices and eight subsidiary companies. Among the 480 personnel, 260 are engineers and technicians, 16 are professor senior engineers. In 2003, it was qualified by the ISO9001: 2000 Quality Management System. Until August 2009, it owned 87 patents, in which 35 items are inventive patents, 52 items are innovative patents. The technological performance of its products have reached a world-class level. TZCE’s products are mainly used for producing high grade oil pipe, nuclear power tube, supercritical high-pressure boiler pipe, high-pressure bottle tube, thickness tube and larger diameter pipe with small thickness. The company possesses a team of experts in designing, working on electric, hydraulic, lubrication and mechanical processing assembly, which can serve for your individually solutions. It possesses the biggest assembly workshop for pipe equipment, and the biggest digital bridge type milling machine of 5500×6000×18000mm in China. its powerful manufacturing capacity and perfect system of complete equipment can help serve your high quality rolling mill.

March 2011 |Vol 24No 2 |US$33

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