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A busy year ahead
Welcome to the April issue of Tube
Products International, which this
month focuses on small diameter, high
precision tubes and coated pipes and
tubes aswell as the usual round-upof all
the latest business and marketing and
product development news. Also don’t
forget to have a look at our technical
article this month, which deals with present and future
developments in carbon steel tubular products and offers
some fascinating insights into the processes involved in
making domestic tubing and how the methods are likely to
evolve in the future. Also, we’d love to hear your feedback
if you have found any of our articles particularly useful or if
there are any areas that you might find it interesting for us
to focus on in the future.
There’s been lots of tube and pipe news dominating the
headlines inEurope recently, especially on theEastern fringes
of the continent with moves to expand gas lines that supply
the precious resource to Western Europe. The Nabucco Gas
Pipeline, at 3,300 kilometres, will link Western Europe to the
Caspian region, theoretically breaking Russia’s monopoly
on gas supplied to the West, a move that places it at the
heart of a power play over who supplies Europe with gas.
Construction is planned to start in 2011, but before that can
happen there is the issue of financing the pipeline, whose
investment costs amount to about €7.9bn ($11.03bn). The
final go ahead is due to be given this summer.
In terms of raw materials Nabucco will require 2m tons
of steel, 200,000 pipes and more than 30 compressor
units. The diameter of the pipeline will be 56” (1,400mm).
It will be interesting to see how it develops over the crucial
next 12 months, especially with plans for rival pipelines
already at an advanced stage.
The Intras team will, as I write, soon be flying out from the
UK to Germany for the Tube Düsseldorf show so I hope you
had a very successful event for your company and that you
found Düsseldorf offered its usual warm welcome.
With Tube Düsseldorf now out of the way the rest of 2010
shows no sign of slowing down when it comes to tube
events. Tube Russia, Tube China, EuroBLECH and then
Fabtech in November will be upon us before we know it,
and 2011 looks like being even more packed. Watch out
for more details in forthcoming issues.
Talking of which next issue we have some interesting
features on stainless steel tubes, Tube China and
EuroBLECH 2010 so make sure that you submit your
editorial by the closing date of 2 June.
Rory McBride
Editor
2010
24-27
May
Tube Russia 2010
International Exhibition
21-24
September
Tube China 2010
International Exhibition
26-30
October
EuroBLECH
International Exhibition
2-4
November
Fabtech / AWS Welding Show
International Exhibition
30 November –
2 December
Valve World Expo
International Exhibition
2011
8-11
January
Tekno / Tube Arabia 2011
International Exhibition
11-14
January
SteelFab (Sharjah, UAE)
International Exhibition
3-6
March
BORU 2011
International Exhibition
13-15
September
Tube Southeast Asia
International Exhibition
19-24
September
EMO Hannover
International Exhibition
4-6
October
Tubotech (Brazil)
International Exhibition
13-16
November
Fabtech / AWS Welding Show
International Exhibition
TBA Tolexpo (Paris)
International Exhibition
For further information on any of the above events
please contact INTRAS Limited UK office
(address and contact details on page 4)
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