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8 Tube Products International January 2009
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RathGibson titanium tubing will be installed in India’s US$4.2 billion Tata Mundra Project ▲
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RathGibson, USA, is a manufacturer
of welded, welded and drawn, and
seamless stainless steel, nickel, and
titanium tubing.
The company’s Bahrain branch office
has secured a major contract in India’s
first 4,000 megawatt power project.
The company was chosen by Indian
engineering firm Larsen & Toubro to
supply titanium welded tubing for the
condensers for the Tata Mundra Project.
The power plant will be built near the
city of Mundra, in the state of Gujarat,
India.
Alfredo D’Souza, the company’s director
for business development, Middle
East and India, commented, “Our
commitment to the region has resulted
in increased education and technical
support for our channel partners and
end-users. We are excited to witness
the exponential expansion in this area
and are proud to contribute to that
development.”
Developed by Coastal Gujarat Power
Limited, the Tata Mundra Project
will provide power to over 16 million
customers in the states of Gujarat,
Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Punjab,
and Haryana. The plant, an answer
to the country’s energy shortage, will
contribute to India’s domestic growth
and commercial competitiveness.
The project will create India’s first
private power plant to use supercritical
technology. The term ‘supercritical’
refers to the state of water when it
cannot be clearly defined as a liquid or
a gas. By achieving this supercritical
state, the efficiency of energy generation
is increased while emissions are greatly
decreased.
RathGibson supplies products to
diverse industries such as chemical,
petrochemical, power generation,
energy – oil and gas, food, beverage,
pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical,
medical, biotechnology, and general
commercial.
RathGibson – USA
A look ahead to
Tube 2010
The international trade fairs Tube and
wire, being held for the twelfth time,
will showcase technological power from
the sectors of wire, cable and tube
processing, at Germany’s Düsseldorf
Contract for Tata Mundra Project Exhibition Centre from 12 to 16 April
2010.
Tube 2010 will take place in halls 1 to
7, where a complete range of products
and services will be displayed, including
tube production via processing to
machining.
Exhibits will include rawmaterials, tubes
and accessories, machinery for the
production of tubes, used machines,
process technology tools and auxiliary
materials, measurement and control
technology.
Test engineering and special areas such
as warehouse automation, monitoring
and control systems will complement
the range of technology on display.
The accompanying wire 2010 event
will be held in halls 9-12 and 15-17.
The segmentation in halls 15 to 17 is
new for this show. The area of fastener
technology will present its current
technologies in hall 15, while part of
hall 16 will be dedicated to the latest
processes in spring making.
All applications connected to wires and
cables, wire and cable machinery and
fibreglass machines will be located in
halls 9-12 and 16-17.
A major topic is the area of tube trade.
For the second time, after a successful
debut in 2008, pipelines and OCTG (oil