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Make quality collars on SCH 5-40
pipes and form the lips and flang-
es directly on the end of the pipe
– a system that is faster than any
other method, saving you both
time, money and material.
MACHINERY FOR
TEE JOINTS & LOOSE
FLANGE JOINTS
Use T-DRILL technologies to achieve new
potential in heavy-duty collaring and flanging!
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Visit our Stand No: H06, Hall: 14 at Schweissen &
Schneiden 25.09.2017 - 29.09.2017 to learn more.
Tube Southeast Asia
2017 returns to
Bangkok
TUBE Southeast Asia 2017 returns to the Bangkok Trade
& Exhibition Centre (BITEC), Bangkok, Thailand from 19 to
21 September.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates that
through to 2020 energy and transport sectors will form
62.6 per cent of the total ASEAN infrastructure investment
needs. This is in tandem with Goldman Sachs’ projection
on infrastructure spending in power and transport of four
ASEAN countries (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and
Philippines), which will amount to US$524bn by 2020.
Another major ASEAN infrastructure initiative is the
ASEAN Power Grid (APG), which will see investment
requirement of US$5.9bn, as well as the Singapore-Kuala
Lumpur high speed rail, which will span 350km and is
expected to start operations in 2026.
On the manufacturing front, should ASEAN implement the
ASEAN Economic Community’s integration strategy fully and
be able to capture a larger share of global manufacturing, the
region could gain up to US$625bn in annual GDP by 2030
as stated in a recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute.
At the last event in 2015, the co-staged exhibitions were
presented by 411 internationally prominent companies from
33 countries including seven national pavilions and country
groups from Austria, China, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, the
UK and USA. The three-day exhibition welcomed 7,144
international trade visitors from 56 countries in total.
Almost 33 per cent of these visitors came from outside
Thailand, fromcountries such as Bangladesh, India, Malaysia,
Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Myanmar and Pakistan as
well as visiting delegations from China, Japan, Korea and
Vietnam, manifesting wire and Tube Southeast Asia 2015 as
the regional platform for the wire and tube industries.
The trade fairs also received visits by 73 local factories
from Bangkok Steel Wire, Bangkok Cable, Kulthorn
Materials & Control and Thai Wire Products, among others.
Tube Southeast Asia 2017 – Thailand
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