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October 2008 Tube Products International 15
news business & market
Guangzhou International Convention &
Exhibition Centre.
The 2008 event attracted 386 exhibitors,
including 91 international participants
from 17 countries, and 8,590 trade
visitors. Since its launch in 2000, Water
China has become the largest and
most important exhibition of its kind
in China. Merebo will again organise
the International Pavilion, dedicated to
companies, associations, chambers
and trade press from all over the
world.
Merebo Messe Marketing – Germany
Interpipe to buy
major Ukrainian
scrap metal
processing plant
Interpipe has announced the
acquisition of 95.95% of the shares
of OJSC Dnepropetrovsk Vtormet
(Dneprovtormet), the second largest
scrap metal processing plant in
Ukraine.
The plant’s facilities for metal scrap
storage and processing total 950,000
tons per year, and the plant has a wide
spread of areas for scrap collection
in Central and Eastern Ukraine. Scrap
metal is the basic raw material for
production of steel ingots used for the
manufacturing of Interpipe seamless
pipes and railway wheels.
Alexander Kirichko, Interpipe’s chief
executive officer, commented, “The
acquisition of this scrapmetal processing
plant is the next important step forward
in the transformation of Interpipe into
a fully vertically integrated company.
Dneprovtormet’s facilities will enable us
to satisfy our growing needs in scrap
metal for the production of pipe and
wheel billets, and will also provide high
quality raw materials to our new electric
steel melting facility, Interpipe Steel,
which is due to come on stream in
2010”.
Interpipe – Ukraine
‘Supertube’ leaves for London
Deepdale Engineering Company Ltd, UK, has completed and despatched a
large section of monopile tube to form a key part of a major rail construction
project in Central London.
The 40mm thick carbon steel
tube, which is 20m long and
has an outside diameter of
2,200mm, was cold rolled
and automatic submerged arc
welded in the firm’s specialist
engineering and fabrications
unit in Dudley, West Midlands.
Weighing 46 tonnes, the
finished fabrication was
supplied complete with internal
stiffening rings, lifting frame
assembly and wing brackets.
The giant tube was loaded onto
a long trailer and taken to a
local testing facility where it
was subjected to a number
of rigorous load tests, which
including being lifted into the
vertical position using specialist
crane equipment.
Havingbeen successfully trialled
for strength and integrity, the
monopile was transported to
the capital where it will form the
base of a temporary crane structure.
The order is one of many civil engineering contracts carried out by Deepdale
Engineering for clients in the UK and throughout the world.
Deepdale Engineering Limited – UK
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Load-testing the tube using weights ▲ ▲
The ultimate test: the 46 tonne pile is ▲ ▲
lifted into the vertical position