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Tube Products International January 2014
products & developments
Five decades of experience
Starofit is a major supplier for steel,
alloy steel and stainless steel butt-
welding fittings in Europe.
International orientation has always been
one of Starofit’s focuses. The company
has been actively strengthening its
international presence and customer
base. In order to better support the
growing volume and to meet rising
international demands, Starofit has
reorganised its export departments, and
formed a new team of fittings specialists
who are dedicated to serve international
customers. With the additional flexibility
contributed by this team, the company
is able to provide rapid deliveries to
customers abroad.
The company now holds in stock
seamless elbows and fittings in material
WP 304H, dimensions ½" to 8", and
has also improved its ability to fulfil
demands for duplex stainless steels. It
stocks fittings and elbows in material
1.4462 that are 3.2 TÜV certified in
accordance with VdTÜV 418.
Starofit has a permanent fittings
stock of 6,500 tons, which enables
it to provide prompt responses to
customers’ requests. Its holdings
range from a large stock of ASME
and EN/DIN standardised products
to highly specialised elbows and
fittings with extreme wall thicknesses
and dimensions. With a rigorous
supplier selection process in place,
only products from ISO, PED and TÜV
approved manufacturers are accepted.
The company also specialises in
demand-based tailor-made elbows
and fittings to cater to complex
requirements, and provides products
that are sustainable under extreme
conditions (eg temperature, pressure
and mediums).
Starofit Klose GmbH & Co KG
–
Germany
Starofit has a permanent fittings
stock of 6,500 tons
Precision tubes for critical applications
Fine Tubes, a manufacturer and global
distributor of precision tubes for critical
applications, has been supplying the
aerospace industry for over 50 years.
One of the few suppliers qualified to
produce the high strength titanium
tubes used in the hydraulic systems
of the Airbus A380, Fine Tubes is
also involved in the development of
the high pressure hydraulic tubing for
the Airbus A350 XWB, due to go into
service in 2014.
Besides the company’s involvement in
the commercial and military aerospace
sector, Fine Tubes also supplies
various space programmes set to
take its products beyond the earth’s
atmosphere.
Fine Tubes was selected as the supplier
for the high quality seamless titanium
tubing required for the chemical
propulsion system (CPS) of the Solar
Orbiter.
Due to be launched in 2017, the satellite
will perform close-up observations of the
Sun, and during its seven-year mission
will experience levels of sunlight thirteen
times higher than satellites orbiting the
Earth. Fine Tubes was selected for the
project because of its ability to develop
tubing that can meet the exacting
requirements of space – cleanliness,
survivability in a hostile environment,
and zero maintenance. With its
expertise in the manufacture of the tiny
tubing essential for pre-cooler systems,
Fine Tubes has also been working in
partnership with Reaction Engines on
the development of the aerospace heat
exchanger for the SABRE (Synergetic
Air-Breathing Rocket Engine).
Combining jet and rocket engines in
a single power plant, SABRE is being
developed to enable Skylon, the world’s
first reusable space plane, both to take
off and land on a runway and to exit
the Earth’s atmosphere. Each engine
will require over 2,000km of tubing,
and Fine Tubes has custom-made a
high-pressure tube from the nickel alloy
Inconel.
Fine Tubes Ltd
– UK
Stainless steel seamless pipe
For over 20 years Amodil Supplies
Ltd has been a supplier of stainless
steel seamless pipe and tubes to
the UK market. As the sole UK agent
for the Tubacex Group in Spain, and
representing interests for Productos
Tubulares Spain and its parent
company Tubos Reunidos of Spain,
the Amodil Group is in a position
to supply a comprehensive range of
seamless pipes from
1
/
8
" NB to 24"
NB in a full range of standard and
non-standard schedules and wall
thicknesses manufactured to specific
customer requirements. In addition to
seamless pipes, Amodil offers a range
of seamless tubing from 6 to 180mm
OD, 1 to 20mm wall, depending on a
combination of OD/ID, manufactured
to order.
Amodil Supplies Ltd
– UK
