TPi May 2015

business & market news

TubItaly 2015 TubItaly 2015 will take place from 20 to 22 May at the fairgrounds of Piacenza Expo, Italy. After positive results of the first event, TubItaly has set more ambitious targets to further establish the importance of a sector with a strong international character. The event will show the best of tubes, valves, rods, pipes, profiles and technologies for their production and processing. The slogan chosen for this year’s promotional event, ‘Piping all forms of energy, we nourish life’,

and this will help to increase the number of visitors to the exhibition in Piacenza in order to find the main players in the sector of tubes, pipes and profiles. The exhibition is supported by Federacciai, Istituto Italiano del Rame, Fondazione Promozione Acciaio, and CTI.

emphasises the fundamental role of pipes and pipelines and everything that turns around them; travelling underground or hundreds of metres below sea level, they transport the resources that are part of our everyday life, such as water, gas or oil. The decision to bring the event forward to May will allow TubItaly visitors to take advantage of another exhibition: EXPO 2015. With close proximity to Milan, TubItaly will benefit from the strong international appeal of EXPO,

Piacenza Expo SpA – Italy commerciale@piacenzaexpo.it www.tubitaly.it

Mexican spiral pipe manufacturer Schuler has received a major order for delivery of a spiral pipe machine, from a manufacturer of steel pipes in Mexico. Tuberías Procarsa will use the off-line machine to produce large pipes with diameters from 508 to 2,235mm (20" to 88") and lengths from 12 to 24.4m. The pipes will mainly be used for building pipelines in oil and gas extraction. The input stock for the large pipes is a coil-wound strip up to 25.4mm (1") thick, comprising high-grade steel

(up to X100). The spiral pipe machine forms this material into the required pipe diameter and connects the edges by tack welding.

Schuler AG – Germany www.schulergroup.com

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May 2015 Tube Products International