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Industry News
8 November 2013
YouTube video campaign
for customer support
WACHS has added four new videos
to its YouTube channel. The videos
highlight products and tools designed
to help project managers, welding
contractors and field machinists
estimate production times, specify
products and generally learn more
about pipe cutting, bevelling, and weld
prep best practices.
Viewers can learn about the Wachs
Online Cut Time Calculators via the
YouTube website, to calculate estimates
when bidding on a pipe maintenance or
pipe repair job.
Users can better budget labour time
with the Pipe Cutting and Weld Prep
Calculator.
The newest Wachs video is ‘Oil
& Gas, Refining Pipe Repair & Pipe
Maintenance’. This video demonstrates
machines in the field; where you would
find the equipment; benefits of using cold
cutting equipment; and simultaneous
cutting and bevelling.
The ‘Pipeline Maintenance
Equipment’ video exhibits machining
methods, applications, weld preps
and benefits of using cold cutting
(machining) versus torch cutting and
grinding for weld preps.
The Trav-L-Cutter video illustrates
the machine’s uses in the field,
industries to find the equipment,
preliminary specifications and machine
operations.
Each of the videos can be viewed
on the EH Wachs YouTube channel, at
EH Wachs – USA
Email:
Website:
Quality achievement award
NORMA Group has earned Paccar
Inc’s quality certification for a second
consecutive year. The 50 PPM award
is presented to an elite group of
suppliers who achieved a defect rate
of 50 parts per million (PPM) or less
during 2012.
Paccar evaluates its suppliers’
services on a rolling six-month
performance basis. Its award criteria
also include warranty claims, the
production parts approval process
(PPAP), and on-time delivery. Suppliers
must maintain a quality system in
compliance with QS-9000, ISO/TS
16949 or ISO 9001 for 2008, and pass
Paccar’s supplier readiness review.
“The Paccar 50 PPM award is a
great distinction for Norma Group,”
commented Norma CEO Werner
Deggim. “It reflects the dedication
of all Norma personnel to deliver the
highest quality product solutions, and
also our commitment to always meet
and exceed customer expectations.”
Norma Group has been supplying
standard and quick release
NormaConnect V profile clamps to
Paccar’s DAF trucks since 2006.
Norma Group manufactures a wide
range of engineered joining technology
solutions in three product categories
– clamp, connect and fluid – and
offers more than 30,000 products and
solutions to approximately 10,000
customers in 100 countries.
Norma Group – Germany
Website:
Corinth Pipeworks orders JCOE
large-diameter pipe mill
CORINTH Pipeworks from Athens,
Greece, has signed a contract with
SMS Meer, Germany, for the supply
of a JCOE® large-diameter pipe mill
for longitudinally welded pipes. With
this investment, Corinth Pipeworks is
expanding its product range in order to
meet the growing worldwide demand
for high-strength pipes for oil and gas
extraction and transit.
The new mill will be able to produce
longitudinal submerged-arc welded
(LSAW) pipes with outside diameters
from 18" to 56", wall thicknesses up to
40mm and pipe lengths up to 18.3m
in high-strength steel grades up to
X100. The annual capacity will be
400,000 tons.
The pipes from Corinth Pipeworks
will be used by its customers in future
energy supply projects – for example in
the Mediterranean region, the Gulf of
Mexico, Latin America, West and East
Africa and in the North Sea.
Corinth Pipeworks already has an HF
welded pipe plant and a spiral pipe mill
from the SMS Meer Business Area in
operation. With the new JCOE ® large-
diameter pipe mill, the company is
now completing its range of production
techniques for pipe welding.
The new mill is scheduled for
commissioning in the first quarter of
2015.
SMS Meer GmbH – Germany
Fax: +49 2161 350 1862
Email:
Website: