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January 2010 Tube Products International 33
Steel tube and chrome bar
manufacturer from India
PTC Alliance Corporation manufactures drawn over mandrel
(DOM) steel tubes and chrome bars used by the fluid
power and automobile industries. The company, along with
subsidiary Wiederholt, claims to be the largest manufacturer of
drawn over mandrel steel tubes in the world. The companies’
products find application as cylinder and piston rod parts
in hydraulic cylinders fitted in equipment for construction,
material handling and excavation and as axles, steering, drive
shafts, shock absorbers, and stabiliser bars.
The company has been a pioneer in innovating new products,
such as lighter weight tubes with higher strengths, tubes with
closer tolerances to improve performance and reduce costs,
and bars with improved life cycles, while adopting green
technologies.
Founded in 2004, subsidiary company PTC Alliance (UK)
Limited provides support to customers in the European
region. New company PTC Alliance Precision Products
(Asia) Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of the parent American company,
incorporated recently in Chennai, India, intends to extend the
scope of the operations to cover the Asian Region. The new
company will promote marketing and distribution of products
in the Asian Region while actively pursuing opportunities to
outsource products and services from Asia to Europe and
Northern America.
PTC Alliance Precision Products (Asia) Pvt Ltd – India
Tubes in stainless steel
Sedes Group, Italy, designs and produces electrical heating
elements for industry and household appliances, such as
flexible heating cables, aluminium and foil heaters, various
insulated etched-foil heating elements, heating bands,
stainless steel tubular heaters, cartridges, self-regulating
cables and constant power cables.
With its experience and knowledge in stainless steel
tubular heating element production, the group is also
specialised in the production of round steel tubes. The
company’s production process makes use of profiling
machinery for the manufacturing of electrowelded tubes
in stainless steel, from 4.5 to 16mm in diameter, with
minimum thickness of 0.35mm, and in lengths from 500
to 6,000mm.
Alloys used include austenitic (AISI 300 series) and
refractory high nickel content (alloy 800, 825, 840, alloy
600-601). All products can be manufactured according to
standard specifications and different market applications
(refrigeration, heating and food sectors).
Sedes Group Srl – Italy
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