July 2014 Tube Products International
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business & market news
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Tube and wire 2014 in 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 and 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 50,000m
2
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
Messe Düsseldorf GmbH
– Germany
Sealing main-to-lateral
junction
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office has issued two
patents to LMK Technologies, LLC,
relating to the use of hydrophilic
materials to help seal the junction
between main and lateral sewer pipes.
US Patent 8,667,991 is directed to a
gasket of hydrophilic rubber used in
combination with a lining assembly
to rehabilitate the pipe junction and
a portion of the lateral pipe. The
patent also covers technology using
a hydrophilic paste for sealing about
the pipe juncture.
US Patent 8,667,992 includes
additional claims relating to the use
of hydrophilic paste in main/lateral
pipelining applications.
According to Larry Kiest, president
and founder, “LMK is pleased that the
Patent Office continues to recognise
LMK’s innovations for rehabilitating
main-to-lateral sewer connections.
Protecting our intellectual property
promotes the advancement of
pipe rehabilitation technologies
and is consistent with our ongoing
commitment to our customers and
installation contractors.”
LMK Technologies specialises in
trenchless methods to renew lateral
sewer infrastructure, and has more
than one hundred United States and
foreign patents relating to pipeline
rehabilitation technologies. The
company serves the municipal and
residential markets through a network
of licensed contractors.
LMK Technologies
– USA
