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The Russian Stainless Steel
Summit 2007 conference
(email:
ru), titled ‘Stainless steel tube
and pipe: demand and prices’, took place
last November at the Ritz Carlton Hotel,
Moscow. The conference detailed the rising
demand for stainless steel tube imports in
Russia (a fivefold increase in 2007). The
conference analysed figures for the first
quarter of 2007, which show 61.1 per cent
of imported stainless tubes are from the
EU, 20.3 per cent from the CIS, 12.7 per
cent from Asia, and 5.7 per cent from South
America.
The 7th international exhibition
for Minerals, Metals,
Metallurgy and Materials
(MMMM) will be held from the
13-16 November 2008 in the India Expo
Centre, New Delhi, India -
mineral.com). The IIM’s 2008 international
metallurgical conference will also take place
alongside the exhibition, featuring topics
including surface engineering, continuous
casting, hot and cold rolling and equipment,
and finishing processes.
MTA Malaysia 2008 (www.
allworldexhibitions.com/metal)
will take place from the 7-11
May 2008 at the Putra World
Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The exhibition is directed at the market
for machine tools, tooling and associated
metrology in southeast Asia. This is a
vast market with combined revenues of
approximately US$2,205 million per annum.
The combined event is expected to cover
more than 30,000m2 of exhibition space and
attract in excess of 25,000 visitors. A similar
event branded MTA Vietnam will take place
in Hanoi from 9-12 July 2008.
The 5 th parts2clean (www.
fairxperts.de) welcomed 210
exhibitors from 12 countries
to the new Stuttgart Exhibition
Centre from 9-11 October 2007. A total
of 3,813 visitors were in attendance, to
gather information regarding industrial parts
cleaning. The next parts2clean industrial
parts cleaning trade fair will take place in
Stuttgart from the 28-30 October 2008.
Roll-Kraft ,
USA, recently hosted nearly
one hundred tube and pipe and
rollforming manufacturers at
its latest 2-day training sessions in Mentor
(Ohio). The event was conducted by Mr
Robert A Sladky (vice president of tube mill
engineering), Mr Chuck Summerhill (vice
president of US operations), and Mr Bret
Molnar (roll design engineer). Roll-Kraft will
offer further regional seminars in the future.
Fifty delegates attended a
seminar in Solihull, UK on the
benefits and uses of induction
heating. The seminar was
organized by Cheltenham Induction
Heating ), UK. The
informative day long seminar concentrated
on the fundamentals of induction heating
and the theory behind the process.
The event featured live equipment
demonstrations featuring the new
EasyHeat and EkoHeat range of induction
heaters.
SMS Group GmbH (www.
sms-demag.com), Germany,
has sold Battenfeld
Gloucester Eng Co Ltd ,
USA, to a US management
buyout group led by investor group Mousam
Ventures LLC. Battenfeld Gloucester was
the Group’s last remaining company in the
plastics technology sector, and the sale is
part of the Group’s move to focus on its
core business – metallurgical machine and
plant construction.
Ernst Blissenbach GmbH
( www. b l i s s e n b a c h . d e ) ,
Germany, a leader in tube
inside/outside bead scarfing
equipment, has installed
three scarfing systems at Tube Products
of India. This follows on from similar jobs
at KLT India and Tata Steel India. The
systems were installed on three different
tube mills: a self made TI tube line, a new
Oto Mills tube line, and a new Vai Seuthe
tube line. The lines will be used in the
welding of heavy wall, cold drawn tubes.
Rohrwerk Maxhütte GmbH
.
de), Germany, has placed an
order with SMS Meer (www.
sms-meer.com), for the repair
and modernization of its existing stretch-
reducing mill (Ø 21.3mm to 139.7mm and
WT 13mm). Scheduled for completion at
the start of 2008, this order relates to the
modernization of the drive system and the
Carta® automation system of the stretch-
reducing mill. The rotary saw downline of
the mill will also be upgraded.
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