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74 NOVEMBER 2016
AR T I C L E Uzinexport SA
by Willy Goellner, chairman and founder – Advanced Machine & Engineering/AMSAW
The geographical area has also been expanded with new
customers located in China and Malaysia being added.
Iprolam SA is a heavy engineering company that specialises
in hot and cold rolling mill technology machinery, automation
and process control. Iprolam SA was founded in 1959,
benefitting from its complex structure with all the technical
specialites reunited, with an elite core of engineers offering
vast experience and an impressive database of more than
100,000 projects.
Iprolam SA has the competence of approaching complex,
turnkey projects, as well as specialist projects in the majority
of industries, predominantly in the metallurgy field, providing
services as general designer, general supplier and general
contractor.
Iprolam SA offers competent services in the design of rolling
equipment, electric power supply, automation equipment and
equipment for the measurement and control of continuous
processes. It also caters for electric drive installations –
adjustable by AC and DC digital converters – sequential
control using state-of-the-art PLCs, computer monitoring,
management and control installations for the metal technology
processes.
Iprolam SA is a competent and trustworthy company and is
certified by Germanischer Lloyd according to ISO 9001:2000
and ISO 14001:2004.
All these years have also marked a continuous effort to
improve the quality of the pipes produced through a better
control of its parameters. Some examples of this are given
below.
The measurement system is built to assure high-accuracy
pipe measurement in order to certify the parameters related
to the API 5L standard requirements, or to the requirements
of other specific norms.
Figure 4: Pipe hydrotester 16"-60". Client: Essar Hazira, India, 2010
Nominal technical data
Longitudinally welded steel pipes:
Outer diameter: 406 to 1,524mm (16" to 60")
Wall thickness: 6.4 to 34.9mm for X80
Length: 6,000 to 12,500mm
Material grades: Up to X 80 according to API 5L,
45th edition, σc max = 675 MPa
Max hydro-testing force: 4,300t
Testing time: 5-30 sec
Figure 5: Facing and bevelling machine 16"-56". Client: Man Anjar,
India, 2005
Longitudinally welded steel pipes
Outer diameter: 406 to 1,422mm (16" to 56")
Wall thickness: 6.4 to 31.8mm for X80
Length: 6,000 to 12,700mm
Material grades: Up to X 80 according to API 5L, 45th edition,
σc max = 675 MPa.
Power of bevelling head: 129 kW
Cutting speed: 50 to 175m/min
Figure 6: Online pipe diameter and out-of-roundness
measurement system