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vol 23 no 4 July/august 2010
Tube China 2010
Tube China 2010 will be held
from 21 to 24 September 2010 in
the Shanghai New International
Expo Center and is designed
to assist the effort to explore
the opportunities offered by the
booming Chinese economy –
which is now the second-largest
worldwide and showing no signs
of let-up. This year’s event is
expected to cover 69,000 square
metres and embrace more than
1,200 exhibitors, making it the
largest in history in terms of scale.
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New developments in the field of continuous
production of corrugated metal hoses
Stefan Weiss – Rosendahl Maschinen GmbH, Austria,
Thomas Hatzenbichler and Bruno Buchmayr, Chair of Metal Forming,
Department Product Engineering, University of Leoben, Austria
Inspection, testing &
quality control
Inspection, testing and quality
control leave no imprint on the
product but without them it could
be that the tube or pipe has a fault
or minor error that could mean
it is not fit for purpose or could
present a danger to the public.
Without this technology tube and
pipe manufacturers would be
unable to offer – and stand behind
– the superb, high-tech, saleable
commodities for which they are
justly renowned.
Extrusion, drawing
and reducing
As with most mature and perfected
technologies, the reductive
processes of tube and pipe
manufacture are dependable.
Whether the project calls for
pushing, as in extrusion, or pulling,
as in drawing, the customer of
a modern mill, no less than its
operator, confidently expects a
sound, flawless product, which
is remarkable given the variety of
requirements tubing or pipe from a
typical production run must satisfy.
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