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Factory. In addition, TMK operates two
companies in Romania – the Artrom Pipe
Factory and the Resita Metallurgical
Factory.
TMK is an integrated holding company
that also includes a trading house for
Russian and CIS sales, TMK Global AG
for international exports, and the TMK-
Transportation company. TMK’s head office
is in Moscow with affiliate offices, including
those of the trading house, located in
Switzerland, USA, Azerbaijan, China,
Kazakhstan and Germany.
The company’s yearly production capacity
is circa 3.7 million tons of pipe. Their
products meet international standards
including API, ASTM and EN/DIN, with
quality control systems approved by ISO
9001 and API Spec Q1 standards.
TMK – Russia
Website:
TMK Global – Switzerland
Fax: +41 43 888 73 01
Tube & Pipe Technology is the
international trade magazine for the tube
and pipe industries, published six times
a year in the English language. Covering
the production, processing and utilisation
of tube and pipe, each issue provides
coverage of essential industry news,
personnel changes and technology and
product updates.
The magazine includes regular topical
columns such as ‘From the Americas’ –
an economic and industry report on North
and South America, a variety of technical
features, and in-depth articles highlighting
the latest scientific information and
manufacturing solutions.
SMS Demag AG is a world leader in
the construction of plants for the steel,
aluminium and copper industries. The
company offers a complete process chain
extending from crude iron production right
through steelmaking, continuous casting,
rolling mill and tubemaking technologies,
up to processing and finishing lines for hot
and cold strip.
Within the structure of SMS Demag AG,
SMS Meer was established from the former
‘Tube and Copper Plants’ business unit of
Mannesmann Demag Metallurgy. In 2001,
the ‘Long Product Rolling Mills Division’
was integrated into SMS Meer. As part of a
reorganisation in 2003, SMS Meer became
part of the ‘Tube, Long Product and Forging
Technology’ business area of the SMS
Group.
The product range of SMS Meer essentially
consists of: manufacturing plants and
automated finishing systems for seamless
and welded steel tubes (diameters from
4mm to 1,800mm), hydraulic presses such
as open-die forging presses and powder
presses, and casting and rolling plants for
sections, wire rod and bar steel.
This is in addition to casting and rolling
plants for extrusion billets, strips, wire
rod, anodes and tubes made from non-
ferrous and precious metals, plants for
the production and further processing of
aluminium billets and slabs as well as
plants for the recycling of aluminium.
Website:
TMK is a leading Russian producer of pipes
used in the oil drilling sector, the chemical
and petroleum industry, energy and
construction companies, machine-building
factories and auto manufacturers.
The company is an umbrella organisation
for the four largest pipe manufacturers in
Russia: the Volzhsky Pipe Factory, the
Seversky Pipe Company, the Sinarsky Pipe
Factory and the Taganirogsky Metallurgical
uniform and dull iridescent film on the inside
and outside surface as prescribed by ASTM
standards.
Such film protects the tubes, thus assuring
a long life for products such as heat
exchangers.
Sitindustrie can also supply a wide range
of mechanical components (cast steel
products, industrial valves and gearboxes),
and stainless steel structures for the
construction industry.
Website:
 Sitindustrie will exhibit its range of stainless steel
and copper alloy tubes
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 TMK’s annual production capacity is 3.7 million
tons of pipe
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