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Tube Products International October 2012
products & developments
Fine Tubes presents ‘power’ products
Fine Tubes Ltd has reported that its
participation in the Power-Gen India
& Central-Asia exhibition earlier this
year has generated great interest in
the company’s product range of high
specification seamless, welded and
welded-redrawn tubes. Power-Gen,
being an important power-related
conference and exhibition, was the next
step for the UK tube manufacturer in
advancing its presence in the Indian
nuclear and power market after opening
a sales office in Delhi last year.
“Power-Gen India has been a great
success and amilestone in our marketing
activities in India,” commented Bettina
Schadow, marketing executive at
Fine Tubes. “A prime stand location
combined with our overall presentation
and tube samples on display attracted
a constant stream of visitors and great
interest in our product range. We
generated a high level of quality leads
in the various power sectors, which will
help us immensely in our plans to further
develop this geographical market. Our
presence showed that major industry
players that hadn’t heard of us before
were very impressed with the quality
of tubes and the fact that we already
supply to India-based corporations such
as Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited,
Larsen & Toubro and Reliance.”
Gagan Sood, business development
executive for Fine Tubes, who heads the
local sales office in Delhi, added, “Our
first-time participation at the show gave
us an insight into the latest developments
taking place in the Indian power sector,
especially with the introduction of the
supercritical technology. Visitors to
our stand ranged from power plant
owners, EPC contractors to equipment
manufacturers and fabricators involved
in various methods of power generation
including nuclear, thermal, gas, hydro
and solar.”
Mr Sood explained, “Most of the visitors
to our stand – procurement managers,
QA personnel and senior engineers –
engaged in technical discussions about
the range of applications we cater
for in the power sector. Our technical
expertise in manufacturing high
specification tubes is complemented by
the addition of value adding processes
such as bending, electro polishing,
encapsulation and specialist profiles.”
Fine Tubes manufactures high quality
precision tubes in stainless steel, nickel,
titanium and zirconium alloys, and has
been developing high quality tubes for
the nuclear and power industry for over
40 years. Early life-cycle involvement in
product engineering, material selection
and development are the prerequisites
to Fine Tubes’ commitment to this
industry.
Thecompanysupplieshighspecification
tubes for applications such as fuel
cladding, control rod drive mechanisms,
stator windings, thermocouples, optical
fibre cables, steam generators, heat
exchangers, condensers, boilers, super
pressure heaters, leak detection, and
instrumentation and control tubing.
In addition to the usual ASTM and
ASME standards, Fine Tubes can
supply tubing compliant to ASME III
and RCC-M code.
Fine Tubes Ltd
– UK
SAWL and SAWH
large diameter pipe
Over the years, Europipe GmbH and
its predecessor companies have
manufactured over 30 million tonnes of
large diameter pipe – enough to circle
the Earth twice.
The Europipe group today has
production sites in Europe (M
ü
lheim ad
Ruhr, Germany; Dunkerque, France) and
the USA (BSPC, Panama City, Florida;
and BSPM, Mobile, Alabama) producing
annually over 3,000km of longitudinally
and helically submerged arc welded
large diameter pipe for pipeline projects
throughout the world.
The production for SAWL large diameter
pipe ranges from 508 to 1,524mm
(20" to 60") outside diameter with wall
thicknesses from 7 to 45mm and lengths
up to 18m (60ft). In SAWH execution the
OD ranges from 610 to 1,422mm (24"
to 56") with wall thicknesses from 8 to
20mm and lengths up to 24m (80ft).
Europipe is a major pipe supplier
for ultra-large projects, such as the
Nord Stream Pipeline I + II, Baltic Sea
(Europipe quantity 1,800km, or 1.6 M
tons), and Ichthys, Australia (Europipe
quantity 540km, or 410,000 tons).
The Europipe group’s range of
competence includes high-strength
pipe (X 80 to X 100); HIC-resistant pipe
(all grades up to X 70); and collapse-
resistant pipe (optimisation of geometry
and grade).
Europipe GmbH
– Germany
