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Tube Products International March 2014
Marmon/Keystone completes construction
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held
at Marmon/Keystone’s new metals
service centre in McConnellsburg,
Pennsylvania, USA, which officially
opened for business in November.
The 40,000ft
2
facility took 4½ months
to construct, and is approximately 25
per cent larger than the former building,
which is located within the same
business park. The facility features four
5-ton, dual-hoist overhead cranes and
five high-speed band saws, which are
used to supply tubing and chrome bar
to the heavy equipment manufacturing
industry.
“We are very pleased to be able to
make this investment and increase
our capacity in McConnellsburg,”
commented value added manager Tim
Wamba, who oversees the operation. “It
represents our commitment to support
local manufacturing.”
As a wholesale distributor of tubular
products for over 100 years, Marmon/
Keystone inventories more than 15,000
sizes and grades of carbon, alloy,
stainless and aluminium tubular and bar
products.
It also offers a full range of value added
services to enhance manufacturing
needs. Service centres and sales offices
are located throughout North America,
with corporate headquarters in Butler,
Pennsylvania.
Marmon/Keystone
– USA
Marmon/Keystone president JT ‘Tim’ Spatafore performs
the honours at the ribbon cutting ceremony, surrounded
by company executives and employees, local officials,
and Bill Palmer of Palmer Construction Co
Quanta selected for lateral pipeline project
Price Gregory International, a Quanta
Services company, has been selected
to install pipeline infrastructure for
TransCanada Corporation’s Houston
Lateral Project.
Price Gregory will construct and install
approximately 48 miles of 36"-diameter
steelpipetointerconnectTransCanada’s
Gulf Coast Pipeline to refineries in
the Houston, Texas, marketplace.
The Houston Lateral pipeline should
increase Houston refiners’ access to
US and Canadian oil for refining once
the project is complete.
“Quanta values its long-standing
relationship with TransCanada,”
said Jim O’Neil, president and CEO
of Quanta Services. “This project
will support approximately 650
construction-related jobs for Quanta
employees and subcontractors, in
addition to the survey, inspection,
project management and other
personnel provided by TransCanada
for the project. As the largest pipeline
construction company inNorthAmerica,
Quanta has significant resources, a
track record of safe execution and we
believe the best people in the business.
We look forward to safely executing the
Houston Lateral Project.”
Quanta Services is a specialised
contracting
services
company,
delivering infrastructure solutions for
the electric power and natural gas
and pipeline industries. The company’s
services include designing, installing,
repairing and maintaining energy
infrastructure.
Quanta Services, Inc
– USA
