TPi January 2013

business & market news

Steel pipe and tube manufacturer receives ‘best in show’ award

outstanding B2B marketing campaigns. Winners were judged across 37 categories by a panel of some of the top corporate marketers in the industry. JMC Steel Group includes the operating divisions of Atlas Tube, Picoma, Energex Tube and Wheatland Tube. It is an independent manufacturer of steel hollow structural sections (HSS) and steel pipe, and a producer of electrical conduit and elbows, couplings and nipples.

Group corporate advertisement won the Bronze Award for Single Print Ad.

JMC Steel Group, an independent steel pipe and tube manufacturer, earned three 2012 BMA Chicago Tower Awards, including the Business Marketing Association’s (BMA) highest accolade, Best in Show, for the company’s corporate video. The awards were presented at the 2012 BMA Chicago Tower Awards Bash in September 2012, at Studio Paris in Chicago. JMC and its integrated marketing firm, MarketSense, were honoured in three categories. In addition to winning Best in Show, the corporate video won the Gold Award for Motion Graphics, and a JMC Steel

“We are very honoured to win Best in Show from the BMA,” said Jelani Rucker, director of marketing and business development at JMC Steel Group. “The JMC Steel Group corporate video is something we’re very proud of, and we think it speaks directly to who JMC is, where we come from and what our position is in the industry, as a leading pipe and tubing solutions manufacturer.”

JMC Steel Group – USA info@jmcsteelgroup.com www.jmcsteelgroup.com

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Elbows on tight delivery schedule

Interservice Trading has received an order from a valued European client to supply eight 22" true Sch 40 90LR SS 347H elbows. The delivery time required was very tight and the contract was subject to accepting a penalty-clause. A complex technical specification and inspection played a critical role. Since Interservice is specialised in this type of requirement, the company was able to help, and concluded its part of the project on time, as required.

Interservice Trading BV – The Netherlands info@istbv.com www.istbv.com

Tube Hollows relocates headquarters Tube Hollows International has relocated its headquarters from Fryeburg, Maine, to a new, expanded and ultra-modern facility in Windham, Maine. According to the company’s general manager, David Morse, the move to Windham was an investment into Tube Hollows International’s continued and future success. providing our clients with the specialised attention and access to information they require,” said Mr Morse.

Working with all commercial and medical alloys, Tube Hollows International can provide tube conditioning, (improvement of surface finishes and wall thickness variations), deep hole drilling, trepanning, honing, grinding and turning. Medical, industrial, aerospace, oil and gas, nuclear and automotive industries have benefitted by the precise attention to detail supplied by the company.

Tube Hollows International supplies precision seamless tube hollows used for reduction, as well as for tubular devices and components, with many uses in surgical and implant applications. The concentricity with uniform wall thickness tolerances separates Tube Hollows International from its competitors. Various industries’ demands for near perfect diametric and wall thickness tolerances are routinely satisfied by Tube Hollows International’s proprietary, precision gun drilling process.

“The move has not only enabled us to obtain a new, larger facility with additions to our equipment capacities and capabilities, but it has enabled us to add and implement a customer account management team whose focus will be customer service and communications,

Tube Hollows International – USA

info@tubehollows.com www.tubehollows.com

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