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26 July /August 2007
Industry News
Roll-Kraft
com), USA, has ordered
a new high-speed, high-
precision machining
centre. This vertical milling
machine will be installed at the company’s
headquarters plant in the 3rd quarter of
2007. The new machine will have the latest
innovations for easier and safer operation
and will increase production capacity. Roll-
Kraft currently has 36 CNC machines on
the shop floor.
Socotherm Americas, a
subsidiary of Socotherm
( www. s o c o t h e r m . c om ) ,
Italy, has been awarded a
new onshore contract in
Venezuela for the connection of pipelines
for the vehicle natural gas (VNG) network
of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).
The US$2.4mn contract will involve the
application of a special 3-layer HDP
anticorrosion coating (Plastikote®) on almost
420km of 4.5" diameter pipes, supplied by
the Tenaris pipe mill in Campana.
Trumpf .
de), Germany, will further
expand its headquarters in
Ditzingen, with completion
set for mid-2009. The size
of the core factory will increase by one-
third, in addition to the construction of
a new development centre for machine
tools and expansion of the existing laser
factory.
Van Leeuwen Wheeler
( www. v an l eeuwen . c om)
has announced plans
for a major expansion at
its Middlesbrough, UK
warehouse. This development will see this
warehouse becoming a distribution hub
for VLW’s UK operations. It will result in
a 40 per cent increase in its warehousing
capacity and include increased cutting
capacity and expanded product ranges.
Jetcam International (www.
jetcam.com) and Finn-Power
Oy )
have announced a global
agreement, whereby Jetcam
Expert CAD/CAM software will be offered
with Finn-Power CNC punching and laser
machines.
The go-ahead has been
given for Essar Vietnam
Steel Corp’s new hot strip
mill plant, the result of a
joint venture between Essar
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