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Editor • Rory McBride
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Welcome to the latest issue of Tube & Pipe Technology magazine, which this month
focuses on fittings, couplings and tubular joints and welding technology, equipment
and consumables as well as all the very latest industry and technology news. I hope
you enjoy the magazine.
It’s always the biggest event on the calendar and this year was no exception for
my first Tube 2010 in Düsseldorf, which received a very healthy turn out on the first
four days and it was great to meet so many of you and to see such a vast array of
innovative machines in operation and spread over such a huge space – as a few sore
feet in the office will testify to. I look forward to meeting some familiar faces again at
the next event in two years’ time, which, hot off the press today, has been confirmed
as being held on 26-30 March 2012. Sadly, most of our UK staff had to leave early on
Friday morning due to the volcano. It’s not since school that I have used an errupting
vulcano as an excuse for anything, but for anyone who was expecting to see us on
the Friday please accept our apologies, although I assure you it takes something fairly
dramatic for us to desert our post. I hope our more than capable team of translators
were able to help you with any queries about the magazine but if not please feel free
to contract me personally and I will endeavour to help.
The explosive events meant we had a long coach trip and ferry ride home rather
than by air, but I know we were fortunate to get home on time
at all with some people still trapped abroad up to a week later
or forced to take additional flights to alternative airports, which
I am sure took its toll. I hope you stalwarts at the show that
final day managed to make the most of it and that everyone
managed to get home one way or another.
Rory McBride, editor, Tube & Pipe Technology
When you have finished with this
magazine please recycle it
F ront C over Story
Meccanica Adda Fer
was established in 1990
with a purpose to re-sell
machinery that had been
disposed of by the family
company after extensive
revisions and revamping
operations.
This proved to be
a winning idea and
the revised machines were soon
successfully installed in several
countries abroad.
With this extensive know how and its
remarkable levels of customer loyalty
Meccanica Adda Fer started to project and
manufacture complete new plant systems
after conducting technical feasibility
studies: coil cutting lines, electro-welded
pipe forming lines, pipe finishing plants,
hydraulic test and pipe packing systems
have been built and installed throughout the
five continents of the world.
The production lines for electro-welded
pipes using cold-forming processes are the
company’s core business. The machines
are designed to require simple and basic
adjustments and can be equipped with
additional parts, automatic regulations and
controls to automate the line further and to
produce high quality pipes.
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HIGHPERFORMANCEHIGHPERFORMANCEHIGHPERFORMANCEHIGHPERFORMANCEHIGHPERFORMANCEHIGHPERFORMANCE
HIGHPERFORMANCE
LOWCOST
FLYINGCUT-OFF
DOUBLEBLADE
Ø8"x10mm
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