TPi March 2013

business & market news

Spotlight on New Technology award ClampOn has had the honour of using the Spotlight on New Technology logo since receiving an award last year. The company received the award for its development of the ClampOn Subsea Corrosion-Erosion Monitor (Subsea CEM), a project realised with the support of BP and Innovation Norway. pipelines. The instrument includes up to 32 ultrasonic transducers installed on the outside of a section of pipe up to two metres long. The transducers ‘talk’ to each other and the ultrasonic signals passing between them change as the pipe wall thickness reduces.

depths of up to 3,000m, although it expects competing systems to enter the market at some point. Since receiving the award, the company has signed contracts for deliveries of the Subsea CEM with operators, large and small, in the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and Asia.

The technology used in the Subsea CEM enables operators to monitor the rate of erosion or corrosion in their ClampOn AS – Norway mail@clampon.com www.clampon.com West Coast mechanical tubing depot opens ClampOn states that it is presently the only manufacturer that can offer technology that can measure erosion or corrosion on the pipe itself in water

sizes and grades of carbon, alloy, stainless and aluminium tubular and bar products. Service centres and sales offices are located throughout North America, with corporate headquarters in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Glaser, regional vice president, western region. “The depot was specifically created to meet our customers’ growing needs, and it complements our already strong mechanical tubing business.” As a wholesale distributor of tubular products for over 100 years, Marmon/ Keystone inventories more than 15,000

Marmon/Keystone’s Los Angeles branch has begun stocking 100 new sizes of DOM and cold drawn seamless products in a recently established West Coast mechanical tubing depot. “These additional sizes provide a broader range of material that is available for faster delivery to our customers in the region,” said Barry

Marmon/Keystone LLC – USA sales@marmonkeystone.com www.marmonkeystone.com

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March 2013 Tube Products International