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Industry News
8 July 2014
Tube and wire 2014 review
MORE than 2,500 international
exhibitors from the wire, cable and
tube industries can look back on five
successful trade fair days. Inspired by
the upswing of the steel market, the
exhibiting companies presented their
product innovations at the Düsseldorf
Exhibition Centre during the trade fairs
Tube 2014 and wire 2014.
“The trade fairs took place at exactly
the right time. Now several companies
are planning on investing in order to
position themselves for continued
competition,” commented Joachim
Schäfer, managing director accountable
for the fairs at Messe Düsseldorf. “Once
again, wire and Tube recorded exhibitor
growth as well as a significant increase
in booked exhibition space.”
The exhibitors presented themselves
to 72,000 trade visitors who travelled to
the exhibition halls from 104 different
countries to learn about the latest
machines, equipment and products for
the wire, cable and tube processing
industries.
Tube 2014 took place in halls 1
to 7 and in hall 7a. More than 1,200
exhibitors from 47 nations showed
their innovations on approximately
50,000m2 of total exhibition space. This
represents a 3.1 per cent increase in
exhibiting companies and close to a
4 per cent increase in booked space
compared with the previous event in
2012.
Tube presented the entire spectrum,
from manufacturing to processing,
to reprocessing and tube trade. The
offerings ranged from raw materials,
tubes and accessories, machines for
tube production and tools for process
engineering to auxiliary materials,
as well as measurement and control
technology.
Test engineering and special areas
such as warehouse automation and
control systems rounded off the broad
spectrum of offerings. Machines and
equipment for the manufacture of
profiles and their end products were
presented in a variety of forms and
materials. The areas of tube trade and
OCTG technology again covered a
large area.
Trade fair guests at Tube came from
a total of 62 countries. Visitors came
primarily from Italy, France, the USA,
the Netherlands, India, Spain, Sweden,
Turkey, Poland, Austria, the Czech
Republic and the UK. 64 per cent of all
trade fair visitors came from industry, 18
per cent from trade and 6 per cent from
craft. Visitors were primarily interested
in tubes (54 per cent), machines for
tube processing (24 per cent), machines
for tube reprocessing (23 per cent), raw
materials (21 per cent) and machines for
tube manufacture (20 per cent).
wire and Tube once again take place
simultaneously in 2016, from 4 to 8 April
in Düsseldorf. Information on the trade
fairs can be found on the respective
websites, and
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Messe Düsseldorf GmbH – Germany
Fax: +49 211 4560 87541
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Seminar on choosing the right
NDT techniques
With more than 85 years of experience
in designing and manufacturing non-
destructive test instruments and
systems for the metals industry,
Magnetic Analysis Corp (MAC) is to host
a seminar later this year in South-East
Asia.
The event will take place in Shanghai,
China, on 23 September.
Building on the success of the
Echomac® rotary ultrasonic testers,
the company will be featuring a new
spinning tube ultrasonic test system
at the seminar. This system features a
unique APC (automatic pitch control)
transducer carrier that contains the
water couplant and follows and adjusts
to the pitch of the tube as it rotates
through the tester. This allows testing
of a large range of pipe sizes, including
large diameters, with minimal transducer
adjustments during size changeovers.
Because the transducers are under
the pipe, no tight fitting glands or shoes
are needed, resulting in lower water
circulation requirements, fewer wear
components and virtually no changes
required to the basic water tank on size
changeover.
The spinning tube transducer system
can also be used for testing tube ends,
as well as for a retrofit or upgrade of
existing installations. A Rotomac® eddy
current rotary and coil platform will also
be on display.
Information will be presented on test
systems using a combination of more
than one type of test technology, a
requirement to meet many stringent
test standards such as API and ASTM,
as well as information on inspection of
specific products.
Knowledgeable field staff will provide
information in multiple languages on all
of the company’s products. Guests will
include vice president Dudley Boden;
Casey Powers, systems engineer;
Paloma Domenico, advertising
manager; David Terry, business
development manager for SE-Asia;
and Jerry Zhu, business development
manager for China.
Magnetic Analysis Corporation – USA
Fax: +1 914 703 3790
Email:
Website: