TPi March 2014

business & market news

Marmon/Keystone completes construction

Marmon/Keystone president JT ‘Tim’ Spatafore performs the honours at the ribbon cutting ceremony, surrounded by company executives and employees, local officials, and Bill Palmer of Palmer Construction Co

sizes and grades of carbon, alloy, stainless and aluminium tubular and bar products. It also offers a full range of value added services to enhance manufacturing needs. Service centres and sales offices are located throughout North America, with corporate headquarters in Butler, Pennsylvania.

to the heavy equipment manufacturing industry.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at Marmon/Keystone’s new metals service centre in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, USA, which officially opened for business in November. The 40,000ft 2 facility took 4½ months to construct, and is approximately 25 per cent larger than the former building, which is located within the same business park. The facility features four 5-ton, dual-hoist overhead cranes and five high-speed band saws, which are used to supply tubing and chrome bar

“We are very pleased to be able to make this investment and increase our capacity in McConnellsburg,” commented value added manager Tim Wamba, who oversees the operation. “It represents our commitment to support local manufacturing.” As a wholesale distributor of tubular products for over 100 years, Marmon/ Keystone inventories more than 15,000

Marmon/Keystone – USA sales@marmonkeystone.com www.marmonkeystone.com

Quanta selected for lateral pipeline project Price Gregory International, a Quanta Services company, has been selected to install pipeline infrastructure for TransCanada Corporation’s Houston Lateral Project. We look forward to safely executing the Houston Lateral Project.” Quanta Services is a specialised contracting services company,

“Quanta values its long-standing relationship with TransCanada,” said Jim O’Neil, president and CEO of Quanta Services. “This project will support approximately 650 construction-related jobs for Quanta employees and subcontractors, in addition to the survey, inspection, project management and other personnel provided by TransCanada for the project. As the largest pipeline construction company inNorthAmerica, Quanta has significant resources, a track record of safe execution and we believe the best people in the business.

delivering infrastructure solutions for the electric power and natural gas and pipeline industries. The company’s services include designing, installing, repairing and maintaining energy infrastructure.

Price Gregory will construct and install approximately 48 miles of 36"-diameter steelpipetointerconnectTransCanada’s Gulf Coast Pipeline to refineries in the Houston, Texas, marketplace. The Houston Lateral pipeline should increase Houston refiners’ access to US and Canadian oil for refining once the project is complete.

Quanta Services, Inc – USA info@quantaservices.com www.quantaservices.com

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