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20 Tube Products International September 2016
Trelleborg receives Argentinian IRAM
certification for pipe seals
Trelleborg’s pipe seals operation has
received certification for its Power-
Lock, Sewer-Lock above 450mm
and Anger-Lock systems, by the
Instituto Argentino de Normalización y
Certificación (IRAM).
Recognised as a mark of quality and a
strict requirement for a range of products
in Argentina, IRAM certification was
awarded following stringent product
testing and a comprehensive audit of
the company’s warehouse facilities in
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Alan Guzowski, managing director of
Trelleborg’s pipe seals operation in the
USA, commented, “With increasing
demand for high performance sealing
solutions among pipe manufacturers
across South America, Argentina has
become strategically very important to
our business.
“Our new distribution site in Buenos
Aires, coupled with the award of IRAM
certification, are key to the expansion and
broadening of our presence in the region,
and ensures that we are best placed to
meet ever-growing customer demand, in
terms of both capacity and quality.”
The F-601 Power-Lock integrated seal
for plastic pressure pipes features a
pipe socket that is formed over the seal
during manufacture, resulting in up to a
50 per cent reduction in joint tolerance.
The seal’s jointing force requirements
are very low, reducing the risk of seal
displacement. The F-605 Sewer-Lock for
sewer applications uses an inexpensive
single component mandrel. As a result,
the adjustment, cleaning and repair costs
associated with collapsible segment
mandrels are reduced. Pipe diameter
changes are also simpler and quicker.
The F-576 Anger-Lock locked in system
is designed for PVC pressure pipes
and fittings with an Anger bell design.
Designed for potable water applications,
the F-576 seal is a composite combined
lip and compression sealing system that
is installed inside the socket after the
bell has been formed, eliminating the
risk of seal displacement during pipe
transportation and joint assembly.
Trelleborg Pipe Seals – Sweden
Sinarsky launches new type of boiler tube
Sinarsky Pipe Plant, a TMK subsidiary,
has launched production of a new
type of boiler tube, commissioned by
Krasny Kotelshchik Taganrog Boiler-
Making Works, one of Russia’s largest
manufacturers of power engineering
equipment.
The 31.75mm cold-drawn tube with
6.1mm walls, produced to ASME SA-
210/SA-210M international standard,
will be used in the manufacture of
equipment for the Long Phu 1 thermal
power project in Vietnam. Krasny
Kotelshchik Works is involved in the
construction of the 1,200 MW thermal
power project as part of Power
Machines, a Saint Petersburg-based
power engineering company.
Sinarsky Pipe Plant won the supply
contract in a tender process that
involved 12 Russian and foreign boiler
tube producers. The new production
is based at Sinarsky Pipe Plant’s tube
drawing shop No 2, and uses billets
produced by Seversky Tube Works,
which is also part of TMK.
The customer’s representatives
attended the acceptance tests of
finished products at the plant. In April/
May, the plant supplied the first batch
of 250 tonnes of tubular products to
the customer; shipment of the second
batch was scheduled for June.
“The successful fulfilment of a
challenging order and our ASME
certificates demonstrate the high level
of our advanced production capabilities
and are yet another confirmation of
TMK’s competitive edge in the global
market,” said Vyecheslav Popkov,
managing director of Sinarsky Pipe
Plant.
“The expansion of cooperation with
Krasny Kotelshchik Works through the
thermal power plant project in Vietnam
will reinforce our position as a reliable
supplier of cold-drawn boiler tube.”
TMK manufactures and supplies
steel pipe for the oil and gas industry,
operating more than 30 production sites
in the USA, Russia, Canada, Romania,
Oman and Kazakhstan, and two R&D
centres in Russia and the USA.
TMK – Russia
Trelleborg’s Anger-Lock Seal
for PVC-O pipes has received
IRAM certification