TPi October 2010

developments products & Steel tubes from China

Huacheng mainly specialises in the manufacture and marketing of precision cold drawn/rolled seamless, cold drawn welded, electrical resistance welded and special shape steel tubes to EN, ASTM, ASME, DIN, BS, JIS, GB and other standards. The size range is 6 to 114.3mm OD, 0.8 to 15mm wall thickness, with a maximum length of 24m. Corporation

Huacheng has five mills with a total capacity of 60,000 tons of cold drawn/ rolled seamless steel tubes, 50,000 tons of electrical resistance welded steel tubes, 30,000 tons of cold drawn welded (DOM) steel tubes and 30,000 tons of cold drawn special shape/ large diameter steel tubes. The tubes can be widely used in power plant boilers, heat exchangers, automobile

components, mechanical structures, bearingmachining, ship-building, bridge construction, petroleum exploration, transportation and other related fields. Jiangsu Huacheng Industry Pipe Making Corporation – China beststeel@gmail.com www.hc-pipe.com

Protem specialises in the design and manufacture of portable pipe- end preparation tools such as pipe bevelling, tube cutting and surfacing machines, ranging from 3 to 3,600mm OD. The company also designs specific Bevelling benches for use on- and off-shore bevel, face and counterbore heavy wall pipes individually or simultaneously. It will perform repeatable high quality weld preps on most metal pipes including stainless, duplex, super duplex from 3" to 16" outside diameter (88.9 to 406mm), or from 12" to 24" outside diameter (323.9 to 610mm). machining and welding equipment according to customer needs. The company’s electric BB machine can be used either on-site or in the workshop. The heavy duty beveller will

Protem’s BB machine for outside diameters from 3" to 16"

The bench beveller can be fixed to the floor and is easily installed. It clamps the outside diameter of the pipe, and can be controlled by one operator. Used with an optional profile tracking device, it will machine oval pipes, leaving a root face of a consistent width, which is required when using orbital welding heads.

Protem SAS – France contact@protem.fr www.protem.fr

Protem GmbH – Germany info@protem-gmbh.de www.protem-gmbh.de

ERWmechanical steel tubes

Tubular Steel Inc is a precision ERW mechanical steel tube producer with two locations in Toronto, Canada. The company is able to roll mild steels, high strength lowalloy, ultra high strength low alloy, and dual phase materials with outside diameters from 8 to 76.2mm, and gauges from 0.7 to 3mm. Tube mills designed with the company’s tube fabricating customers in mind allow Tubular Steel Inc to offer tight tolerances, whether the tube is round,

square, rectangle, or one of the company’s unique shapes.

Tubular Steel currently supplies automotive, healthcare, lawnandgarden, fitness, furniture and other industries. The company’s employees are able to work with tube fabricators on solutions to their process challenges. State- of-the-art equipment, ISO/TS-16949 certification, unique tooling design, and a well-equipped quality lab are also part of the company’s success.

Tubular Steel’s extensive R&D efforts allow it to process ultra high strength and dual phase materials to help customers achieve their goals in reducing the weight of their products. Small diameter, heavy wall tube is a speciality. The company can manufacture tube without secondary straightening at 12mm OD and 2.5mm wall thickness in any weldable grade up to 800 MPa tensile strength.

Tubular Steel Inc – Canada tsi@tubularsteel.ca www.tubularsteel.ca

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Tube Products International October 2010

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