TPT May 2010

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Planes, trains and automobiles Welcome to the latest issue of Tube & Pipe Technology magazine, which this month focuses on fittings, couplings and tubular joints and welding technology, equipment and consumables as well as all the very latest industry and technology news. I hope you enjoy the magazine. It’s always the biggest event on the calendar and this year was no exception for my first Tube 2010 in Düsseldorf, which received a very healthy turn out on the first four days and it was great to meet so many of you and to see such a vast array of innovative machines in operation and spread over such a huge space – as a few sore feet in the office will testify to. I look forward to meeting some familiar faces again at the next event in two years ’ time, which, hot off the press today, has been confirmed as being held on 26-30 March 2012. Sadly, most of our UK staff had to leave early on Friday morning due to the volcano. It ’ s not since school that I have used an errupting vulcano as an excuse for anything, but for anyone who was expecting to see us on the Friday please accept our apologies, although I assure you it takes something fairly dramatic for us to desert our post. I hope our more than capable team of translators were able to help you with any queries about the magazine but if not please feel free to contract me personally and I will endeavour to help. The explosive events meant we had a long coach trip and ferry ride home rather

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than by air, but I know we were fortunate to get home on time at all with some people still trapped abroad up to a week later or forced to take additional flights to alternative airports, which I am sure took its toll. I hope you stalwarts at the show that final day managed to make the most of it and that everyone managed to get home one way or another. Rory McBride, editor, Tube & Pipe Technology

was established in 1990 with a purpose to re-sell machinery that had been disposed of by the family company after extensive revisions and revamping operations.

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FLYINGCUT-OFF DOUBLEBLADE Ø8"x10mm

This proved to be a winning idea and

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

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the revised machines were soon successfully installed in several countries abroad. With this extensive know how and its remarkable levels of customer loyalty Meccanica Adda Fer started to project and manufacture complete new plant systems after conducting technical feasibility studies: coil cutting lines, electro-welded pipe forming lines, pipe finishing plants, hydraulic test and pipe packing systems have been built and installed throughout the five continents of the world. The production lines for electro-welded pipes using cold-forming processes are the company’s core business. The machines are designed to require simple and basic adjustments and can be equipped with additional parts, automatic regulations and controls to automate the line further and to produce high quality pipes.

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