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Pipeline Coating 2009 (www.
amiconferences.com) will take
place from 26-28 January at the
Renaissance Hotel in Vienna,
Austria. The conference will provide a global
forum to discuss the improvements and
trends in pipeline coatings, with debate of
current technical issues in failure prevention
and market developments.Speakers will
include Mr Denis Melot (Total), Mr Andre
Koebsch (Petrobras), Mr Mohamed Daoud
(Abu Dhabi Co for Onshore Oil Operations),
and Mr John La Fontaine (ExxonMobil
Development).
The 4th international conference
‘Stainless and Special Steels
2008’ was successfully staged
from 16-17 October 2008 in
Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. A
selection of leading metallurgical companies
from Russia and Ukraine took part in
the conference, including Arcelormittal
Stainless International, Thyssenkrupp,
Sandvik, Tubacex, Centravis, Electrostal,
Uraltrubostal, and Uniton.
Pune Machine Tools Show
2009
will take place from 19-22
February 2009 at the Auto
Cluster Exhibition Centre, Pune, India.
The event is organised by KMG Business
Technology and sponsored by the ITPO
(India Trade Promotion Organisation). The
event will have participation of over 300
companies from leading countries including
Japan, USA, Germany, Italy, Taiwan and
Singapore.
Citypipe ,
the 4th international exhibition
for municipal piping systems,
will be staged from 26-29
May 2009 at the Crocus
Expo centre in Moscow, Russia. Exhibits
will include pipes and manholes, pipe
manufacturing equipment, valves and
fittings, pipeline laying and repair, pipeline
inspection and trenchless technology.
The last event in 2008 welcomed 216
companies from 23 countries in 5,102m2
of exhibit space.
Fabtec India 2009 (www.
fabtecindia.com) will take
place from 21-25 January
2009 at the Codissia trade fair
complex in Coimbator, India.
The exhibition will focus on machinery
and equipment used for steel structural
fabrication, sheet metal forming and
stamping technology, welding equipment,
tube and pipe production, fabricating
equipment, and painting/coating
technology. The event is jointly organised
by Codissia and Germany’s M/s P E Schall
GmbH & Co KG, with sponsorship from the
Indian Welding Society (IWS).
FlowExpo (Email: flowexpo.
), the
12th International trade fair
for valves, pipelines, fluid
engineering and the process industries,
will take place from 25-27 March 2009
in Guangzhou, China. The exhibition will
showcase a range of products including
gate valves, butterfly valves, globe valves,
check valves, fittings, pipe expansion joints
and connection devices. Other products
will include pipelines, pipes, piping, tubing,
fittings, hoses, and systems for fluid
engineering and processing.
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