October 2012 Tube Products International
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products & developments
For more than 230 years BUTTING has been supporting the customers with
its skill and innovations. Since the mid-eighties we have been producing
longitudinally welded, metallurgically clad pipes and have delivered more than
6 500 tons of these pipes to customers world-wide. We produce them in OD’s
from 114.3 mm (4”) up to 1 219 mm (48”) in various material combinations.
Progress by Tradition!
Your specialist in metallurgically clad pipes
BUTTING
Germany · Belgium ·
Brazil · Canada · China
Brigitte Blechinger
Sales Oil and Gas Upstream
Phone: +49 5834 50-230
brigitte.blechinger
@
butting.de
New range of thickness
gauges and flaw detectors
As part of its continuing growth strategy
Elcometer, a supplier of equipment for
the corrosion inspection industry, has
launched a comprehensive range of
ultrasonic thickness gauges and flaw
detectors.
Under the Elcometer NDT brand name,
the range includes both corrosion
and precision thickness gauges
plus handheld mini-flaw detectors,
together with over 650 transducers
and accessories to meet the exacting
demands of the industry.
All Elcometer NDT products are
rugged and water resistant, and
manufactured in the USA by
Elcometer.
Elcometer manufactures inspection
equipment with specialised
divisions dedicated to coatings
inspection, concrete inspection
and industrial metal detection.
Elcometer NDT
– UK
Elcometer
NDT products
New generation of leak detection pigs
Gottsberg Leak Detection, a family
owned company specialising in non-
destructive testing, has launched a new
ultrasonic leak detection pig that makes
pigging in pipelines easier.
The new GLD 202 detector is a reliable
and easy-to-use pipeline pig that can
detect leaks from a (TÜV Nord GmbH
certified) size of 6.8 l/h. The company
states that this is less than 5 per cent
of what online systems can normally
detect, and better than most other leak
detection pigs.
The Gottsberg detector is approved
for ATEX Zone 0, which means that the
handling with the machine and its use
in pipelines does not affect operation,
because no EX norms must be regarded
concerning the use of the pig. During a
run, normal pipeline operation can be
maintained, because parameters such
as speed or pressure can vary without
influencing the electronic recording.
When the run, which can last up to
2,000km at a flow rate of 2m/sec, is
complete, the analysis of the recorded
data with GLD 700 software can be
carried out by the operator’s personnel,
because its use is easy and mostly
automated.
A few days of training with Gottsberg’s
experts will be enough to make reliable
statements about the leak tightness of
the inspected pipeline.
Gottsberg Leak Detection GmbH &
Co KG
– Germany
