TPT September 2014

September/October 2014 Vol 27 No 5

The September Issue A warm welcome to the latest issue of Tube & Pipe Technology magazine. Inside you will find all of the latest tube machinery information and industry news. I hope you enjoy the magazine.

Rory McBride – Editor

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This issue we have a feature on furnaces and heat treatment and take a look at three huge industry shows – Tube India 2014 in Mumbai, EuroBLECH 2014 in Hanover, Germany, and FABTECH in Atlanta, USA. The magazine will, of course, be represented at all of these shows so come and visit members of our team at their booths. The magazine will also be freely distributed to the many thousands of visitors. I will be travelling to Atlanta, USA, in November for FABTECH. It will be my second visit to the city, which I found a very welcoming destination. Even in the two years since I last visited, the US, and the southern States in particular, have experienced a growing boom in energy- related industries such as oil and shale, so I expect the tube industry to be in a very positive mood following an up and down few years since the global financial crisis. The editorial deadline date for our November issue is 1 September with the advertising deadline on 12 September. The November magazine will be distributed at Tube Arabia 2015. We have features on handling, manufacturing profiles and bent tubes, and advances in measuring and marking. Please send your stories to me at rory@intras.co.uk

11-13 November 2014

North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event

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28-30 October 2014

6 th All Indian Exhibition & Conference for the Tube and Pipe Industries

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The international magazine for the tube & pipe industries

21-25 October 2014

SEPTEMBER2014

23 rd international sheet metal working technology exhibition

VOL27 NO5

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MULTI CUTMC3 HIGHEST available output Technology LOWEST obtainable operating cost

On the cover . . . LINSINGER Tube cut-off machine, Type Multi-Cut MC 4 developed and manufactured by LINSINGER Austria. LINSINGER’s four saw blade technology is the most productive low- cost solution available for tube cut-off. Ideal for round, square and rectangular tube cut-off at high speed.

136 ARTICLE: MISMATCH DEFECTS IN ERW STEEL TUBES By Abhishek Bhartim, engineer, Caparo Engineering India Limited and Sitaram Bainsla, intern, Caparo Engineering India Limited

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LINSINGER Multi-cut is for inline-operation in ERW lines as a flying tube-cut off aggregate requiring highest possible availability. It utilises four cutters working simultaneously around the pipe for a surprisingly fast cut. If one of the four has an early lifetime end, it goes into a park position. The remaining three tool heads cut tubes continuing until the scheduled tool change. Thereafter there is a decrease of the tube line speed or an increase of the cutting speed. LINSINGER machines are engineered and manufactured in Austria. LINSINGER offers an extended product range for the tube and pipe industry. It covers mainly circular sawing machines for cutting of steel billets and tube layers, milling machines for edge preparation for wind tower construction and shipbuilding and pipe bevelling machines for bevelling of tube ends.