TPT March 2008

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V ol 21 No 2 March/April 2008

It’s back! And Tube 2008 again smashes all the records with over 1,000 confirmed exhibitors and 100,000 visitors expected. Held alongside regular partner wire 2008 and new show Metav 2008, the tremendous success of Tube Düsseldorf can be attributed to three main strengths: an established reputation, high exhibitor numbers and face-to-face business. In the cut-and-thrust of Tube 2008 – held from 31 March to 4 April – flags of agreement and partnership are set to be firmly planted. 56 Tube Düsseldorf 2008: Show Feature

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Inspection, Measuring, Testing & Marking

Quality is a characteristic not easily achieved or accepted without substantial qualification. Those products and services that lay claim to being the best on the market have only achieved this confidence through operation of the highest levels of inspection, measuring and testing. Those experts that facilitate this proof of excellence provide the very latest technology including ultrasonic inspection, x-ray inspection, eddy current testing, NDT testing, industrial vision, and thermal imaging. And, of course, once quality is verified and assured it must be recorded for full traceability through the most advanced methods of marking available.

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T echnical A rticle

242 Friction and lubrication properties of tube forming coolants Dr Robert D Evans, research scientist, Quaker Chemical Corporation, USA

Illustration images used this issue courtesy of Bigstockphoto.com, BLM Group, Ficep SpA, HGG Profiling Equipment BV, International Tube Association, Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, Sofratest, and UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA)