March/April 2014
Vol 27 No 2
The March Issue
Welcome to the latest issue of Tube
& Pipe Technology magazine.
Once again the time for the entire
industry to gather together in
Düsseldorf is upon us. Can it really
have been two years since the last
show? I hope this special issue of
the magazine and its 224 pages will
prove to be an invaluable guide while
you are attending. Inside you will find
a full list of exhibitors and their stand
numbers as well as all the latest news on the tube
and pipe technology industry. We also have in-depth
information on many of the machines and products
that are being exhibited in our Düsseldorf Exhibitor
Section, which starts on page 154.
The magazine is an official media partner of the
Tube show and is being distributed in several
locations so I hope you find it an informative read.
We will be in the main entrance hall and I will also
be based in Hall 4, Stand B29 all week.
With 1,179 exhibiting companies, Tube once again
broke its exhibitor record in 2012 (and has grown
eight-fold since the first show in 1988). Last time
2,600 extra visitors attended too so 2014 should be
equally spectacular.
For the May issue of TPT we have features on
bending and endforming, software and control
systems and wide diameter tube production
equipment. Contact me at
Rory McBride
– Editor
On the cover . . .
In Steel, Fives’ goal is to help steelmakers
enhan c e t he i r pe r f o rman c e and t he
subsequent competitiveness.
It has developed the most reliable and
innovative technologies and offers a range
of expert service, from the layout of a
facility to revamping services, including
the design, manufacture and retrofit of mechanical,
thermal, tube and pipe finishing equipment and the supply of surface
treatment technologies.
Fives employs 1,200 people dedicated to steel applications, with the
capacity to run projects everywhere. They partner with steelmakers to
help them meet the quality requirements they want to reach, also for the
sectors with the most demanding steel applications.
Fives is an industrial engineering group with a heritage of over 200
years of engineering excellence and expertise.
Fives provides process equipment, production lines and turnkey
plants for the biggest global players in the aluminium, steel, glass,
automotive, logistics, aerospace, cement and energy sector in both
developing and developed countries.
In all these sectors, Fives designs and manufactures equipment and
innovative solutions, which better anticipate and meet the needs of its
customers in terms of performance, quality, safety and respect for the
environment.
Fives,abiggerchoice thanyou think…
As of Spring 2014, the entire Fives o er dedicated to the steel industrywill appear
under a unique brand name: Fives. For the steel industry, Fives proposes themost
reliable& innovative technologies in the eld ofmechanical, thermal, tube& pipe
mills& nishing equipment and the supply of surface treatment technologies.
www. vesgroup.com
Fives’o er for tubeandpipe, longandflatproduct industries includes
technologiesandsolutionssuchasBronxstraighteners,AbbeyandOTO
tube&pipemills,andTaylor-Wilsonfinishingequipment.
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The international magazine for the tube & pipe industries
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