July 2011 Tube Products International
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news
business & market
Marcegaglia opens first Asian
manufacturing facility
Marcegaglia has opened its first
manufacturing plant in Asia, located
in Yangzhou, China. The company
described the move as the most
important investment from an Italian
company in this country within the last
ten years, and the largest production
facility offering excellence in the
fabrication of high precision steel tubes
dedicated to the manufacturing districts
of the local market as well as the Asia-
Pacific region.
The new manufacturing unit spreads
over 714,000m
2
, and at full capacity
will employ about 500 workers. The
production plant is located within the
Guangling Industrial Park in Yangzhou,
Jiangsu. The plant was constructed
in a single phase in just 11 months.
Around 400,000 tonnes of stainless and
carbon steel special tubes, welded and
cold-drawn, will be manufactured yearly
at full capacity. This will consist of
200,000 tonnes of carbon steel tubes,
100,000 tonnes of cold-drawn tubes,
70,000 tonnes of stainless steel
tubes, 30,000 tonnes of refrigeration
tubes and others, for applications in
sectors such as automotive, energy,
precision engineering and hydraulics.
60 per cent of the plant’s production will
be destined for manufacturing industries
in China, the world’s top consumer of
high quality steel tubes. The remaining
40 per cent will serve Asian and Pacific
markets such as Thailand, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Japan and Korea.
The plant is equipped with eight tube
welding lines, three pointing units, two
coil slitters, two drawing benches,
two ultrasonic inspection units, two
straightening lines, a line for orbital
cutting, a normalisation furnace and an
automatic pickling plant.
The city of Yangzhou, 370km from
Shanghai and with a population of
around 4 million, is among China’s top
growing industrial cities and is equipped
with a developed infrastructural network,
motorway and high-speed railways,
a river ship harbour and a modern
airport.
The Marcegaglia group has a yearly
output of over 5mn tonnes, across its
operations in Europe, Asia, North and
South America and the Middle East.
Its 50 manufacturing plants process
5,500km of stainless and carbon steel
products every day, serving more than
15,000 customers.
Marcegaglia
– Italy
Marcegaglia’s Yangzhou
plant covers 714,000m
2
