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Industry News
10 January 2016
Tube Developments celebrates
50 years in business
FOUNDED in 1965, Tube Developments
Ltd has become one of the largest steel
tube stockholders in Europe, and is now
celebrating 50 years in business.
The company’s initial aim was to
provide an immediate stock supply of
steel tube throughout Scotland and
the North of England, servicing the
shipbuilding and heavy engineering
industries. The company states that
it quickly developed a reputation for
quality, reliability and value, and this
allowed it to establish itself in the
international markets covering Europe,
Australia, USA, Africa, India, the Middle
East and Asia.
The company still operates with the
same principles and commitment to
quality and service that the current
chairman and founder, John Fraser,
envisaged when
he created the
company. Tube
D e v e l o p m e n t s
operates from
modern premises
near Glasgow, UK,
and has at any one
time thousands of
tonnes of carbon
steel pipe and
tubulars in covered
and controlled
warehouses.
The company’s
reputation for
supplying carbon
steel pipe and high yield tubulars
has seen it working on complex
projects around the world, including
the petrochemical, offshore/onshore
oil, and construction industries. Tube
Developments has an extensive
customer base, and in 2013 received
recognition, at a presentation ceremony
in London, for its successful supply of
the structural tubulars on the Jasmine
Project in the central North Sea.
Following its vendor approval status
for many of the leading oil and gas
contractors, some of which include
Saipem, Technip and Saudi Aramco,
2014 saw both Qatar Petroleum and
Oman Oil & Gas Industry’s Joint
Supplier Registration System added to
the list of registered vendor approvals.
The company’s QA/QC procedures and
manuals are assessed and approved
by each customer prior to achieving this
type of status.
Tube Developments Ltd – UK
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Ideal Welding Systems
names new president/GM
IDEAL Welding Systems LP, subsidiary
of Ideal-Werk, Lippstadt, Germany,
has announced the appointment of
Christian Kloeckner as president/GM.
He brings more than 20 years of solid
international experience in the welding
industry, which includes sales of large
welding machines and equipment,
as well as marketing and customer
service.
“We believe he will
help shape our leading
position in the market
of resistance and
laser welding,” noted
Dorothee Jungeblodt,
managing director of
Ideal-Werk in Lippstadt,
where the headquarters
are located.
“His professionalism
and proven dedication
are great assets to
Ideal Welding Systems
LP where he oversees
the US and Canadian
markets and is a first point of contact,”
added Max Clemens Jungeblodt,
managing director.
Mr Kloeckner is a married father of two
children and speaks English, German,
Portuguese and Spanish fluently.
Established in 1995, Ideal Welding
Systems is responsible for sales and
service of the German Ideal brand
of automated wire and sheet metal
equipment.
Since 1923, Ideal has produced auto-
mated machinery for the wire and sheet
metal industry worldwide, including
laser welding and mesh welders, and
is a leader in automated band saw
welders.
IDEAL-Welding Systems LP – USA
Email:
Website: Christian Kloeckner
Topsides being added to Chevron Big Foot in Texas, USA,
prior to starting in the Gulf of Mexico in 2014