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Tube Products International July 2011
Elizabethtown Gas to continue
infrastructure enhancement
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
(NJBPU) has approved the continuation
of the Elizabethtown Gas utility
infrastructure programme to 2012.
The programme accelerates capital
expenditures for projects that will en-
hance the safety, reliability and integrity
of the natural gas distribution system,
while creating jobs in New Jersey.
Originally approved in 2009, the
Elizabethtown Gas programme has
replaced nearly 47 miles of cast iron pipe
and constructed two major interconnect
projects totalling around 24 miles of new
pipe in Sussex, Warren and Hunterdon
counties, at an approximate cost of
$68mn.
The extended programme will allow
the company to continue replacing
aging infrastructure and provide
reinforcements to the distribution
system.
It also supports the original goal of the
state to stimulate the local economy by
creating jobs. More than 100 new jobs
have been created since the programme
began.
“The New Jersey Board of Public
Utilities is to be commended for
allowing us to continue replacing
infrastructure and improving system
reliability for our customers,” said Don
Carter, vice president, Elizabethtown
Gas.
“Today’s approval allows us to focus
on replacing older pipelines to meet
the current and future needs of our
customers.”
Elizabethtown will spend approximately
$40mn to complete the infrastructure
projects between now and the end of
2012.
The company, which is a wholly
owned subsidiary of AGL Resources,
provides natural gas delivery service
to approximately 276,000 residential,
business and industrial natural gas
customers in New Jersey, USA.
Elizabethtown Gas
– USA
Titanium seamless tubular products
VSMPO Titan Ukraine Ltd is a fabricator
of seamless tubular products from
titanium and its alloys.
The company is part of JSC Corporation
VSMPO-AVISMA (Russia), a producer
of
semi-products
and finished titanium
products that supplies
raw material to the plant.
The company’s annual
production capability is
500 tons of cold-finished
titanium tubes (diameter
3-130mm, wall thickness
0.4-9mm),
and
in
cooperation an additional
200 tons of hot-finished
titanium tubes (outside
diameter 114-325mm,
wall thickness 7-30mm).
Engineers
and
technical
specialists
are developing new
technologies of titanium
tubes production and
new types of products
such as octahedral and
ribbed tubes, thin-wall
tubes for bellows, and long-length
tube production. VSMPO Titan Ukraine
has all the necessary equipment for
different tests and QA inspections.
It allows manufacturing not only
according to the international and
national standards, but meeting any
customer’s requirements.
VSMPO Titan Ukraine Ltd
– Ukraine
Seamless tubular products from titanium
