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ChTPZ Group (www.
chtpz-group.ru) companies –
Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling
Plant (ChTPZ), Russia, and
Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant
(PNTZ) – shipped 256.8 thousand tonnes
of pipe products to customers in January
and February 2008, a decrease of 14 per
cent compared to the same period in 2007.
According to the company, there was higher
market activity in the same period in 2007 due
to the implementation of large pipeline projects
bymajor domestic oil companies. ChTPZGroup
expects a slight decline in output in 2008.
Peter Holzrichter GmbH
,
Germany, has announced
expansion plans with the
opening of a third warehouse
in Spring 2008. This will increase
the company’s capacity at existing
warehouses in Wuppertal and Herdecke.
With a range that includes tube, strip and
coil, Holzrichter achieved a 2007 turnover
of about €212 million.
Polypipe ),
UK, has established a new
sector-focussedteam–Polypipe
Industrial – to concentrate on
providing plastic piping systems
for industrial applications. Polypipe Industrial
will be part of the existing Polypipe Terrain
business and will offer a wide variety
of piping products and solutions for the
industrial market (ie the Effast range of
PVCu and ABS plastic piping systems).
These are backed by a full technical and
support service.
Sitindustrie Group (www.
sitindustrie.com), Italy, with
its Swiss parent company
Zwahlen & Mayr, has won
an order to supply VSA
Consortium (Veolia Water, Saipem and
Al Jaber), with 230t of high corrosion
resistance 18m long welded stainless steel
tubes. These tubes will be used for the
construction of 3 evaporators for Shell’s
‘Pearl gas to liquid’ project in Qatar – which
is claimed to be the largest gas to liquid
(GTL) plant in the world.
DSM Desotech (www.
dsmdesotech.com), a leader
in UV-curable coatings, has
announced the acquisition of
Polymeric Processes Inc
, USA, an
innovative producer of UV-curable coatings
for tube and pipe. This acquisition accelerates
the efforts of Desotech’s UVentionT group,
which develops innovative custom UV-curable
materials for select US and European markets.
“The tube and pipe industry is a fast-growing
market for both clear and colour UV coatings,”
says UVention market platform manager,
Dr Anthony Toussaint.
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