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12 Tube Products International September 2016
Hobas GRP manholes
win product test
In a recent review of manhole
rehabilitation products and methods
by the IKT Institute (institute for
underground infrastructure, Stuttgart,
Germany), the Austrian company Hobas
came out on top.
13 different rehabilitation systems were
tested, which involved the renovation
of a 5m-high concrete manhole, DN
1000. The providers were asked to
re-establish the manhole’s leak-
tightness and structural integrity.
The individual approaches were then
examined and the rehabilitated shafts
exposed to long- and short-term
groundwater pressure.
With an overall score of ‘Good’ (1.6,
German grading system from 1 to 6, with
1 being best), Hobas GRP manholes
were the test winners.
Hobas Engineering GmbH – Austria
Tube Products INTERNATIONAL
appoints sales and marketing
executive
Steve Singh has joined the Tube
Products INTERNATIONAL magazine
team as sales and marketing executive.
Mr Singh has extensive experience
in media sales including a number of
years at leading regional newspapers
throughout the UK.
He lives in Warwickshire, UK, with
his wife and young daughter and his
interests include travel, food and cricket.
He is excited about the opportunity
to help companies in the tube and
pipe industry with their marketing and
advertising campaigns in order to help
them to gain outstanding international
exposure for their products.
Tube Products INTERNATIONAL
magazine is distributed globally to a
comprehensive database of decision
makers and buyers in the tube industry
and is present at all major international
tube events.
Mr Singh can be contacted on email
at: or by calling:
+44 1926 834688. A media pack with
detailed advertising information and a
forward features list is available at:
Inspection by the IKT testing team
(copyright/source: IKT)
Offshore
Energy 2016
Registration for Offshore Energy
Exhibition & Conference 2016 (OEEC
2016) is now open. The ninth edition of
the event is expected to attract 11,500
offshore professionals and more than
650 exhibiting companies. The event
takes place on 25 and 26 October 2016
at Amsterdam RAI in the Netherlands.
Offshore Energy is an annual event
focused on the complete offshore energy
industry. It covers both the exploration
and production of the conventional
energy resources oil and gas, as well
as the expanding renewable part of the
energy mix such as offshore wind and
marine renewable energy. Renewables
play an important role during OEEC
2016.
Next to the exhibition, which covers
four halls at Amsterdam RAI totalling an
area of approximately 26,000m2, more
than 80 speakers representing some of
the major players in the offshore energy
industry will feature at the conference.
The extensive three-day conference
programme consists of keynotes,
technical sessions, master classes,
meetings of industry organisations, the
Marine Energy Event and the Offshore
WIND Conference.
‘Entering a new area’ has been chosen
as theme for OEEC 2016. The theme
will also be reflected in the three-
day conference programme, where
subjects such as subsea processing
and infrastructure, decommissioning,
knowledge management, asset integrity,
Iran, LNG and optimising value by
building alliances across the E&P chain
will be presented and discussed. One of
the new developments this year will be
the attendance of Iranian companies,
who will present themselves at the Iran
pavilion during the entire event.
OEEC 2016 together with CBC Oil &
Gas have tailored activities for Iranian
companies to meet the international
energy industry at their national pavilion
and during a dedicated technical session
on Iran, where the developments in the
Iranian oil industry will be discussed.
Navingo BV – Netherlands
Steve Singh of
Tube Products INTERNATIONAL