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10 Tube Products International April 2010
Following investment in new pipe
extrusion lines and fittings for
polyethylene (PE) pipe diameters up
to 1,200mm, Radius Systems was
selected for the supply of 710mm dark
blue PE for the prestigious new water
supply main from Fobney to Tilehurst
near Reading, UK, a 7km scheme for
Thames Water.
Contractor Murphy Group selected PE
over ductile iron due to its engineering
performance for this particular
application.
The installation was in a high water
table area, close to a water course, and
running across fields in some sections,
so long lengths of butt-fused PE proved
advantageous. PE’s flexibility also
negated the need for many bends.
The installation is part of Thames
Water’s ongoing investment in its water
network.
Radius Systems – UK
Radius Systems’ 710mm water pipe
deployed in new water supply main
Butt-fused pipe awaiting installation
for Thames Water
CityPipe 2010
CityPipe 2010, ‘Piping Systems
for Municipal Infrastructure:
Construction, Diagnostics, Repair
and Operation’, will be held in
Moscow, 1-4 June, in the IEC
Crocus Expo exhibition complex.
Initially part of the ECWATECH
water and wastewater technology
show, CityPipe has now become
a separate exhibition, attracting
companies from other industry
sectors of municipal utilities,
including gas, power and heat
supply, and communications.
In 2010, the 5th International Trade
Fair and Conference CityPipe
will be presented in parallel with
ECWATECH and the NO-DIG
Moscow exhibition.
The exhibition will incorporate
subjects such as pipes and man-
holes; equipment for pipe manu-
facturing; valvesand fittings; pipeline
laying and repair; technologies,
machines and materials for
construction and repair of piping
systems; trenchless technologies;
operation of piping systems;
machines, equipment and materials
for piping systems operation;
pipeline inspection; quality control;
corrosion prevention; design and
research; and IT technologies
in piping systems design and
operation.
Sibico International Ltd – Russia
Manufacturer of seamless stainless steel
tubes, Centravis, has been successfully
certified and has joined the ranks of the
officially approved suppliers of Saudi
Aramco, a leading company in the oil
and gas sector.
During the audit of the Centravis
Production Ukraine plant
(Dnepropetrovsk region, Nikopol),
representatives of Aramco Overseas
Co visited the cold shop and the
hot shop, and reviewed in detail the
production technology, new equipment,
environmental and social regulations,
and product quality management
system.
On 29 December 2009, according
to the Internal Standards of Quality
Management System and requirements
to the production process technology of
the companies Saudi Aramco Co and
Aramco Overseas Co, and also of the
International Quality Auditing System,
Centravis was granted the status of
official supplier of Saudi Aramco. This
status ensures the possibility to supply
seamless stainless steel tubes with
Holding Centravis certified by Aramco Overseas Co
outside diameter up to 114mm and
U-tubes with outside diameter up to
38mm.
Yuriy Atanasov, general manager of
Centravis Holding, commented, “It is
a great honour for us to be in the rank
of officially approved suppliers of the
biggest company in the oil and gas
sector in the Middle East. We plan to
strengthen our cooperation by extending
the certified product assortment up to
the diameter 219mm.”
Centravis’s product portfolio includes
more than 1,000 standard sizes of tubes
and pipes of more than 100 types of
corrosion-resistant and heat resistant
steel grades in seven segments: general
tubes and pipes; boiler tubes and pipes;
heat-exchanger tubing; instrumentation
tubing; furnace tubing; hollow bars; and
Ni-alloys.
Products are used in the chemical and
petrochemical industries, nuclear and
thermal power engineering, non-ferrous
metallurgy, machine and shipbuilding,
and the food industry.
Centravis product quality is confirmed
by international certificate EN ISO
9001-2000. Products are manufactured
according to American standard ASTM,
German DIN, French NF, Italian UNI,
Russian GOST and TU.
Centravis Production Ukraine