TPI January 2009

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New international offices

director – business development, North and South East Asia and Oceania.

Steve Soroko serves as RathGibson’s first director – business development for Europe. Mr Soroko manages the European business from Vienna, Austria and reportsdirectly toAndrewYeghnazar, vice president – international business development. As the director, Mr Soroko monitors current markets and designs and implements RathGibson’s strategic business enterprises in Western and Eastern Europe. Along with the expansion of personnel and offices, RathGibson has been awarded ‘Perfect Performance’ from the Mamon/Keystone Corporation’s Supplier Quality System (SQS). Thismarks the third time that RathGibson has achieved this honour. RathGibson executives Michael Schwartz, president, and JimBaumann, director of distribution sales, received the award at the 2008 annual Supplier Recognition Day.

also spearheads the Regional Technical Training Programs for customers and channel partners. Mr Sunny Sun serves as national sales manager for the chemical market. Ms Zhang, Ms Wang and Mr Sun are based in the Shanghai office and report to Peter Wang, director – business development, Greater China. As manager – business development, India, Michael Edinburgh serves in the Mumbai, India office and reports to Alfredo D’Souza, director – business development, Middle East and India. Mr Edinburgh focuses his energy on meeting the needs of RathGibson customers in India. As ASEAN regional business manager based in Singapore, Gilbet Boon is responsible for day-to-day operations, as well as providing the leadership to develop and strengthen RathGibson’s ventures in Southeast Asia. Mr Boon reports directly to Wayne Hungerford,

RathGibson, a manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing, has opened three new international offices. To provide local support for its channel partners and customers, the company has opened offices in Mumbai (India), Singapore, and Vienna (Austria). The Mumbai office provides RathGibson with a significant presence in the financial capital of India. The Singapore office helps facilitate sales to Southeast Asia, while the Austria office supplies additional support to Europe. In addition to the new offices, six new team members have joined RathGibson. Joining the Greater China Team are Louisa Zhang, Irene Wang and Sunny Sun. Ms Zhang, the national sales manager for key accounts is the liaison for all fabricators in the Chinese market place. Serving as technical support manager, Ms Wang not only manages local customer support, but

RathGibson – USA www.rathgibson.com

Citypipe international exhibition The 4 th CityPipe international exhibition, titled ‘Piping systems for Municipal Infrastructure: Construction, diagnostics, repair and operation’, will be held 26-29 May 2009 in Pavilion #3, Hall 13 of the Crocus Expo International Exhibition Center, Moscow, Russia. The estimated exhibition space is 8,000m 2 . CityPipe was originally part of the ECWATECH exhibition (water and wastewater technology show), but is now a separate exhibition. Topics of the event cover a wide range of issues related to construction, diagnosis, repair and operation of piping systems in municipal infrastructure: heat, water and energy supply, water disposal and communications. The exhibition will feature pipes and manholes for water supply, water disposal (sewage, drainage, etc), heat supply, gas supply and communications. Other areas covered include equipment for pipe manufacturing, valves and fittings, pipeline laying and repair, machines and materials for construction and repair of piping systems, and trenchless technologies (equipment, materials and services). The show will also feature operation of piping systems, machines, equipment and materials for piping system operation, pipeline inspection, quality control, corrosion prevention, design and research, and IT technologies in piping system design and operation.

Sibico International Ltd (organiser) – Russia citypipe@sibico.com • www.citypipe.ru

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