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consistent look and feel as well as
enabling combined defect reporting.
The testers can easily be combined
into complete, automated test systems
including triple pinch benches to
maintain accurate positioning, standard
and custom conveyors, markers,
sorters, demagnetisers, water circulation
systems for ultrasonic test applications,
and sophisticated controls, all designed
by MAC.
Typical system applications include
testing welded and stainless tube,
automotive tube, OCTG, and heat
exchanger and Duplex tube.
MAC’s knowledgeable field staff will
provide information inmultiple languages
on all of the company’s products.
Maxvalue Industries Co Ltd
China
1E20
Maxvalue was founded in 1995 to export
fittings and flanges. The company has
since become a major producer and
supplier of flanges and fittings in China.
A selection from Maxvalue’s range
Materials used include carbon steel,
alloy steel and stainless steel.
The company’s products can be used in
the oil, gas, naval, energy and chemical
sectors, and are suitable for systems
at low, medium and high temperatures,
produced in standard sizes or according
to special request.
Maxvalue is Bureau Veritas ISO 9001
certified, and the company’s fittings and
flanges have the TÜV PED certificate.
Omni-x CZ sro
Czech Republic
5D20
Following demand from existing
customers, Omni-x has increased
its mandrel bending tooling range to
include end-forming tooling.
Parent company Omni-x USA had
already started producing end-forming
tooling after a successful design and
testing period. Omni-x CZ has followed
suit, and after undergoing its own
testing and design procedures is now
fully up and running.
With the new tooling added to the
range, the company also decided to
invest in extra personnel, machinery
and the expansion of the premises
in Brno, Czech Republic. Five new
machines have been purchased: two
Haas VF 2 vertical machining centres,
a Doosan Lynx 220 turning centre, a
Doosan Puma 2600 turning centre and
a Mitsubishi BA24 wire cut EDM.
To house these new machines, and also
to provide extra space for continued
growth, the production area has been
expanded from 1,100m
2
to 2,100m
2
,
and a new 600m
2
warehouse has been
added. There are also plans in place to
purchase more machines in 2014, which
will lead to further job creation for the
local area.
As both the aerospace and the
automotive industries continue to
show signs of growth, the demands
for new and more complex tooling are
increasing. With its team of designers,
engineers and highly skilled CNC and
milling machine operators, Omni-x states
that it is prepared for any tooling project.
Oscar Production Group Ltd
Ukraine
4F18
Oscar Production Group is a
manufacturer of seamless tube, pipe
and round bar produced from titanium,
nickel alloys and stainless steels.
The group was established from the
specialised tube drawing plant No
4 (TDW 4) of Nikopol Yuzhnotrubny
Plant (NYTP) Ukraine, which began the
production of tubes in 1975.
The company’s range of tube sizes runs
from diameters of 0.3 to 133mm, with
wall thicknesses from 0.08 to 15mm. The
group’s specialities are the production
of extremely thin walled titanium tube
with large outside diameters, and the
production of titanium ribbed tubes with
very tight tolerances on all dimensions
of the rib and tube. Another speciality is
the production of multi-layer tubes with
individual layers from 0.16 to 0.25mm
thickness; from two to 12 layers are
possible.
A new addition to the company’s range
is the production of titanium grade 5
hollows, aimed at the offshore oil and
gas industry. Oscar also manufactures
a wide range of products for the general
industrial markets. As well as tubular
products, the company can produce a
range of round bar in titanium from 16
to 100mm diameter.
The Oscar Group’s production area
for the cold working of tube and bar
covers 1.4mn square feet, in which is
situated over 60 units of cold drawing
and rolling equipment, providing a
massive production capacity. In addition
to this, Oscar has a powerful and
comprehensive thermal treatment facility
for tubes in a non-oxidising atmosphere
of ultra-pure hydrogen (bright annealing)
and in vacuum. Investment has been
made to extend the lengths of some
of the furnaces in order to be able to
produce extra-long tubes. This gives
wider possibilities for the manufacture
of super alloys in titanium, nickel alloys
and special stainless grades.
Oscar Production Group constantly
invests in development of technology
and upgrading of equipment, as well as in
establishing a quality control standards
to the demands of the aerospace,
nuclear, chemical, petrochemical, oil
and gas, pharmaceutical, defence and
shipbuilding industries.
In early 2013 Oscar Group was award-
ed ISO 9100 certification from TÜV
Nord, and is also certified to ISO
9001:2009, TÜV Nord PED 97/23/EC, AD
2000-Merkblatt, VNITI-Test UkrSEPRO
system and DSTU ISO 9001:2008.
Skilled QA personnel can provide all tests
according to domestic and international
standards, such as GOST, TU, EN, DIN,
ASTM, ASME and AMS.
