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Industry News
ATLAS Tube, a division of JMC Steel Group,
has announced that it is re-opening its hollow
structural section (HSS) manufacturing
facility in Blytheville, Arkansas. Starting in
September, the facility will begin regularly
scheduled mill rollings.
The decision to re-open the plant will
allow Atlas Tube to provide customer
service, reduce product lead times and
enhance delivery performance to customers
in the Southeast and Southwest regions of
the USA.
Atlas will produce round, square, and
rectangle HSS at this facility. These products
are typically used in various construction
and OEM applications.
David Seeger, president of JMC Steel
Group, believes that this will enhance
Atlas’s position in the marketplace: “The
new technology we have deployed in
Blytheville will elevate our quality, drive
higher order turnaround, and give us added
capacity to better serve our customers in
the southern and western regions of the
country.”
Customers serviced from the Blytheville
facility will continue to be supported via the
customer service teams at Atlas’s facilities
in Chicago, Illinois; Plymouth, Michigan; and
Harrow, Ontario. Atlas Tube was founded in
1984 and has been manufacturing hollow
structural sections for over three decades.
The company has five production facilities
that produce in excess of 1.4 million tons of
HSS tube annually.
Its steel tubing products are used in
some of the most demanding applications,
including commercial and industrial building
columns, solar support structures, sports
stadiums, bridges, mobile construction
equipment, railcars and oil rigs.
Atlas Tube – Canada/USA
Fax: +1 519 738 3537
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Investment
success for
Italian tube
maker
ILTA Inox, an Arvedi Group company
that operates in the stainless steel tube
sector, closed its 2010 balance sheet with
a turnover that has risen to €200mn. A
€50mn investment programme concluded
in 2010 helped the company to become
one of the world’s most important laser-
welded stainless steel tube manufacturers,
with a capacity of over 70,000 tons/year.
The investments mainly concerned the
modernisation of the welding lines and
annealing and pickling plants, and have
ensured a 30% increase in productivity.
Ilta Inox SpA – Italy
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Website:
Arkansas manufacturing
facility to re-open