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Technology Update
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Whatever Tester You
Want it
to Be.
Configure MultiMac™ to meet YOUR needs.
Magnetic Analysis Corporation’s new MultiMac™ eddy current tester
can adapt to your application. Operate with encircling/sector test
coils to detect short defects and/or rotary test probes to identify
long, seam-type surface defects. And MultiMac features up to 8
simultaneous test channels, broad frequency range, and precise
phase discrimination to give you all the flexibility you need. MAC’s
MultiMac is whatever tester you want it to be.
Magnetic Analysis Corp.
535 South 4th Avenue, Mount Vernon, NY 10550
(914) 699-9450 Fax: (914) 699-9837
Nondestructive testing since 1928
NEW!
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of up to 1,500m and 3,000m. These are
backed up by Hyperlast FJ, a fast-curing
polyurethane elastomer which has protected
over 220,000 field joints worldwide.
Hyperlast PUF rigid foam systems are
offered in a choice of compressive strengths
with various degrees of open/closed cell
content for onshore line-pipe insulation and
field jointing, pipe-in-pipe insulation of sub-
sea flowlines, and as the field joint infill for
concrete weight-coated gas transmission
lines.
Systems are available at different densities
with particular insulation characteristics
according to the level and type of blowing
agent included within the formulation.
These systems are typically designed
to be processed through high pressure
meter mixing equipment for cast and spray
applications.
In addition to its readily available products,
the company regularly formulates custom
insulation systems for specialist projects
such as manifolds, risers, jumpers, spool
pieces, xmas trees and associated sub-sea
architecture.
Dow Hyperlast – UK
Fax: +44 1663 746605
Email:
Website:
Latest order for
18" PQF plant
Yantai Baosteel Pipe Co Ltd, part of
Chinese steel group Baoshan Iron & Steel
Co Ltd, has placed an order with SMS
Meer, Germany, for the supply of an 18"
PQF® plant. This order follows the supply by
SMS Meer of three plants for the production
of tubes from 21.3 to 1,420mm.
The new plant operating with the PQF
method (premium quality finishing) will
cover the upper end of the size range
for the production of seamless tubes, in
particular for the high-grade tube segment.
The plant is scheduled to go into operation
at the beginning of 2010, and will produce
520,000t of seamless tubes per year. The
installed maximum power of the key units
alone will be more than 80,000kW.
The tubes will have diameters from 244.5 to
457mm, with wall thicknesses up to 55mm.
Baosteel will deliver the starting material by
sea from its own steelworks to the port of
Yantai, directly next to the works.
SMS Meer is to supply all the key
components of the mill equipment for the
PQF plant, including the media systems
and the automation.
The scope of supply also includes project
management, supervision of erection and
commissioning, and training of operating
personnel.
The PQF mill will be equipped with individual
roll drive and an all-hydraulic roll adjustment
system. In order to ensure constant quality,
the whole PQF plant will be monitored and
controlled by the Carta® technology system,
developed by SMS Meer.
The plant for Baosteel will be the eleventh
PQF plant worldwide and the sixth in China
that SMS Meer has installed since the
market introduction in 2003.
SMS Meer GmbH – Germany
Fax: +49 2161 350 1667
Email:
Website: