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Editorial Index. ................. 2
Industry News ................... 6
Technology Update ......... 42
G lobal Marketplace . ..... 86
中文综合......................... 136
Advertisers Index.......... 144
March 2011 |Vol 24No 2 |US$33
Taiyuan Tongze Heavy Industry Co Ltd
Taiyuan Tongze Heavy Industry Co Ltd (TZCE) was founded in August
2001. The design centre of the company is the provincial technology
center of Shanxi province. It is equipped with 13 technical offices and
eight subsidiary companies. Among the 480 personnel, 260 are engineers
and technicians, 16 are professor senior engineers. In 2003, it was
qualified by the ISO9001: 2000 Quality Management System. Until August
2009, it owned 87 patents, in which 35 items are inventive patents,
52 items are innovative patents. The technological performance of its
products have reached a world-class level.
TZCE’s products are mainly used for producing high grade oil pipe,
nuclear power tube, supercritical high-pressure boiler pipe, high-pressure
bottle tube, thickness tube and larger diameter pipe with small thickness.
The company possesses a team of experts in designing, working on
electric, hydraulic, lubrication and mechanical processing assembly,
which can serve for your individually solutions. It possesses the biggest
assembly workshop for pipe equipment, and the biggest digital bridge
type milling machine of 5500×6000×18000mm in China. its powerful
manufacturing capacity and perfect system of complete equipment can
help serve your high quality rolling mill.
The March Issue
Welcome to the latest issue of Tube & Pipe Technology
magazine, which this month features a comprehensive
feature on inspection, testing and quality control, automotive
tube and pipe manufacturing and all the information that
you need on Tube Russia. Please come and say hello
to our team at our stand there. And a big thank you to
everyone who came and showed such a great interest in
the magazine at Tube Arabia in January.
From what I hear this year’s Boru is set to break all records
for attendance in terms of visitors and exhibitors and with
the Turkish economy doing so well in terms of growth any
company would be wise to get involved. We will be there
with plenty of magazines and the more handy to carry CD
versions for you to read on your laptop on the flight home.
Next up is our May issue and we will be featuring articles
on tube mills & roll forming machines and OCTG & pipeline
manufacturing and all the latest industry and technology
news so please do send me your information by the
deadline of 14 March.
Rory McBride – Editor
Editor • Rory McBride
Features editor (USA) • Dorothy Fabian
Editorial assistant • Christian Bradley
Production • Lisa Benjamin
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English speaking sales
• Giuliana Benedetto
Italian sales
• Hendrike Morriss
German speaking sales
• Doug Zirkle
US & Canada sales
• Linda Li
Chinese sales
• Jeroo Vandrevala
Indian sales
Advertising • Liz Hughes
co-ordinators • Andrea McIntosh
Subscriptions • Liz Hughes
Accounts manager • Richard Babbedge
Publisher • Caroline Sullens
Founder • John C Hogg
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