TPT September 2011

I ndustry N ews

Investment success for Italian tube maker ILTA Inox, an Arvedi Group company that operates in the stainless steel tube sector, closed its 2010 balance sheet with a turnover that has risen to €200mn. A €50mn investment programme concluded in 2010 helped the company to become one of the world’s most important laser- welded stainless steel tube manufacturers, with a capacity of over 70,000 tons/year. The investments mainly concerned the modernisation of the welding lines and annealing and pickling plants, and have ensured a 30% increase in productivity. Ilta Inox SpA – Italy Email: sales@ilta.arvedi.it Website: www.arvedi.it

Arkansas manufacturing facility to re-open

ATLAS Tube, a division of JMC Steel Group, has announced that it is re-opening its hollow structural section (HSS) manufacturing facility in Blytheville, Arkansas. Starting in September, the facility will begin regularly scheduled mill rollings. The decision to re-open the plant will allow Atlas Tube to provide customer service, reduce product lead times and enhance delivery performance to customers in the Southeast and Southwest regions of the USA. Atlas will produce round, square, and rectangle HSS at this facility. These products are typically used in various construction and OEM applications. David Seeger, president of JMC Steel Group, believes that this will enhance Atlas’s position in the marketplace: “The new technology we have deployed in Blytheville will elevate our quality, drive higher order turnaround, and give us added capacity to better serve our customers in

the southern and western regions of the country.” Customers serviced from the Blytheville facility will continue to be supported via the customer service teams at Atlas’s facilities in Chicago, Illinois; Plymouth, Michigan; and Harrow, Ontario. Atlas Tube was founded in 1984 and has been manufacturing hollow structural sections for over three decades. The company has five production facilities that produce in excess of 1.4 million tons of HSS tube annually. Its steel tubing products are used in some of the most demanding applications, including commercial and industrial building columns, solar support structures, sports stadiums, bridges, mobile construction equipment, railcars and oil rigs. Atlas Tube – Canada/USA Fax: +1 519 738 3537

Email: sales@atlastube.com Website: www.atlastube.com