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2011
MARCH
3-6
Boru 2011
Istanbul, Turkey
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23-25
‘Made in Steel’
Brescia, Italy
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MAY
23-26
Tube Russia 2011
Moscow, Russia
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JUNE
13-15
Yokohama Pipe & Tube 2011
Japan
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SEPTEMBER
13-15
Tube Southeast Asia
Bangkok, Thailand
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19-24
EMO
Hanover, Germany
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OCTOBER
4-6
Tubotech
São Paulo, Brazil
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NOVEMBER
7-9
Pipe & Tube World Conference
Düsseldorf, Germany
Conference
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14-17
Fabtech
Chicago, USA
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15-18
TOLExpo
Paris, France
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2012
MARCH
26-30
Tube / wire Düsseldorf 2012
Düsseldorf, Germany
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OCTOBER
29-31
Tube India
Mumbai, India
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Diary of Tube Events
Oil, gas and
drilling fuels
US tube
demand
ELECTRIC furnaces at TMK IPSCO’s
steel plant in the US have been running
at full capacity since the end of 2009
because of booming orders from the oil
and gas industry – and the company’s
chief executive says production will
continue.
Piotr Galitzine, chairman of TMK
IPSCO, said the company has doubled
production – from 450,000 tons of
seamless and welded pipe in 2009 to
a current output of nearly 1 million tons.
The company also is hiring at its plants
in Beaver County, Ohio and in Trumbull
County.
“We started seeing an improvement
from 2009 levels at the end of the first
quarter of 2010, and it kept going up
steadily from there,” Mr Galitzine said.
“We will add an additional 50 people by
the end of March. By year-end, we will be
up 80 to 100 people.”
Increased drilling activity in Marcellus
shale and other natural gas-producing
shale beds are fuelling increased
demand for tubular steel, Mr Galitzine
said. Based in Lisle, TMK IPSCO is
a subsidiary of OAO TMK, Russia’s
largest tubemaker.
OAO purchased former Koppel
Steel plants in Koppel and Ambridge
in 2008.
Steel analysts and industry experts
say tubular production has increased
significantly.
“We are seeing increased levels of
production across product lines,” said
William A Wolfe, who heads the Steel
Tube Institute of North America.
US Steel Corp announced in
December a $95mn expansion of its Ohio
tubing plant. It is expected to create 150
temporary construction jobs and 100 full-
time jobs in addition to 500 existing jobs.
Production is expected to begin in the
third quarter.
TMK IPSCO – USA
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