TPT July 2010

I ndustry N ews

International Tube Association recruits 100 new members at Tube Düsseldorf

THE 2010 edition of Tube may have effectively ended one day early because of the Icelandic volcano eruption but despite that the first four days were very successful for the International Tube Association (ITA). As a result of the exhibition the ITA signed up 95 new members, a record number for any single event. A well-attended annual general meeting and members’ lunch saw a number of changes in the ITA hierarchy. Professor Manabu Kiuchi was the 2010 recipient of the John C Hogg Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding service to the association. He retired as ITA president but was accorded the title of Honorary Life President Emeritus. In the elections held at the AGM Gunther Voswinckel became ITA President and Tsutomo Nakata the new ITA Chairman.

Retiring Chairman Albert Sedlmaier was elected Vice President (Europe). During the members’ lunch Stephen Loynes, Chairman of the Technical Management Committee, announced the ITA’s 2010 speaker awards. The 2010 Professor Hugh Sansome speaker award and the speaker’s shield were presented respectively to: Winfried Heinemann of AWS Schaefer, Germany for his paper at the Pipe & Tube Istanbul 09 conference: “New generation of induction bending machines” Hans-Joerg Braun of Reika, Germany for his paper, also at the Istanbul conference: “The latest generation of tube straightening machines – cost and quality improvements in tube finishing lines” A highly commended award went to R Shahandeh, Urmia University, Iran, who was unable to attend the lunch, for his Istanbul

paper: “Experimental and fem investigation on influence of ring stiffeners on buckling behaviour of subsea pipelines under hydrostatic pressure”. The Heinemann paper will be published in the next edition of the ITA’s ITAN newsletter. Anecdotal evidence from many ITA members suggests that Tube Düsseldorf 2010 resulted in a very healthy number of positive enquiries with clear signs that the global market is beginning to recover from the economic downturn of 2008/2009 and Messe Düsseldorf is to be congratulated for its efforts in attracting a high level of decision-making visitors to the trade fair. International Tube Association – UK

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