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March 2016 TUBE PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL 81
4-8 April 2016
Specialist for precise metal processing
Poppe + Potthoff will be presenting its
extended manufacturing capabilities. As
well as seamless precision steel tubes,
the company now offers welded drawn
pipes. In addition, the dimensions have
been extended.
Customised tubes are now available
with an external diameter of up to
100mm at wall thicknesses of up
to 11mm. The group of companies
develops and produces customised
steel tubes, common rail subsystems,
high-pressure injection lines, precision
components, drive shafts and
couplings, as well as special machines
and test stands for various industries.
This allows Poppe + Potthoff to provide
technically sophisticated solutions in
the automobile and commercial vehicle
sector, shipping industry, machine
and tool making industries, and other
industries. The family enterprise,
founded in 1928, has its headquarters
and technology centre in Werther,
Germany, and has 15 production plants
and sales branches in nine countries.
With its subsidiaries and long-term
partners, Poppe + Potthoff offers
customer-orientated activities in more
than 50 countries.
Poppe + Potthoff GmbH –
Germany
Cold rolled seamless tube manufacturer
passes EN 9100
Duisburg Tubes Production AG (DTP),
a German manufacturer of cold-
rolled, high-precision seamless tubes,
successfully passed the EN 9100
certification process at the end of 2015.
The evaluation procedure was carried
out by TÜV Nord.
“I amso happy and proud of my teamand
company, to accomplish the EN 9100
certification,” said Eduard WJ Regele,
CEO of DTP. “This is an important step
for us and our diversification strategy.
As a long-term supplier for cladding
tubes for nuclear fuel rods we have the
quality management system to also fulfil
aviation industry requirements. The goal
is to find customers and industries with a
special demand for high precision tubes,
with a need for very small tolerance
ranges and perfect surfaces. We have
the stable and capable processes to
meet those demands.”
DTP manufactures and supplies cold
pilger mill seamless tubes, using a
special form of cold rolling. The claimed
advantages are material homogeneity,
small tolerance ranges and a perfect
surface finish. The production and
know-how is highly specialised for
manufacturing and developing seamless
tubes made of zirconium, titanium,
nickel-based alloys and aircraft alloys.
Duisburg Tubes Production AG –
Germany
TAP contract for onshore line pipe
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) has
awarded Corinth Pipeworks a contract
for the supply of large diameter pipes,
for a total length of approximately
495km, for the onshore part of the
pipeline across Greece.
The contract for approximately 270,000
tonnes of 48" diameter line pipe was
awarded to Corinth Pipeworks, in
partnership with the Japanese group
Marubeni-Itochi Steel, following
an international tender and a strict
evaluation procedure. Delivery of line
pipes will begin in 2016 and will be
completed in 2017.
Corinth Pipeworks produces steel pipes
utilised in energy projects, specifically
for the transmission of liquid and gas
fuel, and also supplies large diameter
hollow sections to the construction
sector.
The Trans Adriatic Pipeline will transport
natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz
II field in Azerbaijan to Europe. The
878km-long pipeline will connect with
the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP)
at the Turkish-Greek border, then cross
Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea,
before coming ashore in southern Italy.
TAP’s routing can facilitate gas supply
to several South Eastern European
countries, including Bulgaria, Albania,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro
and Croatia. TAP’s landfall in Italy
provides multiple opportunities for
further transport of Caspian natural
gas to some of the largest European
markets such as Germany, France, the
UK, Switzerland and Austria. First gas
sales to Georgia and Turkey are targeted
for late 2018, with first deliveries to
Europe in early 2020.
Corinth Pipeworks SA – Greece St a nd no.
4H30
Sta nd no.
3B01
Sta nd no.
4F01