TPi October 2011

business & market news

Drain Center launches 2011 utilities guide Specialist drainage merchant Drain Center is helping tradesmen and contractors across the UK source utilities products quickly and easily with the launch of its first dedicated product The guide offers a comprehensive selection of utilities solutions, including the popular ‘essentials’ range, pipes and fittings, valves and accessories. below ground usage. To receive a copy of the 2011 Drain Center Utilities Guide call or visit your local Drain Center Utilities branch – full details can be found on the company’s website.

Andrew Kenny, national sales manager for Drain Center Utilities, part of Wolseley UK, commented, “The 2011 Utilities Guide forms part of our ‘total solution’ of drainage products offered through dedicated Drain Center, Utilities and MCA Hire branches across the UK. The guide is an essential tool for tradesmen and contractors to source all the utilities kit they need from one place and, with thousands of products from leading manufacturers available, it offers a variety of products for the job.”

catalogue, the 2011 Utilities Guide.

MCA Hire is a supplier of pipeline products for hire, sale and refurbishment to the utilities market. Also part of Wolseley UK, MCA Hire supports the Drain Center utilities product offering by providing customers with a dedicated store for pipeline projects.

Drain Center’s new utilities guide

drain center – UK www.draincenter.co.uk

Drain Center supplies nearly half a million products for both above and Mca Hire – UK www.mcahire.co.uk Arkansas HSS manufacturing facility to re-open

Atlas Tube was founded in 1984 and has been manufacturing hollow structural sections for over three decades. The company has five production facilities that produce in excess of 1.4 million tons of HSS tube annually. Its steel tubing products are used in some of the most demanding applications, including commercial and industrial building columns, solar support structures, sports stadiums, bridges, mobile construction equipment, railcars and oil rigs.

construction and OEM applications. David Seeger, president of JMC Steel Group, believes that this will enhance Atlas’s position in the marketplace: “The new technology we have deployed in Blytheville will elevate our quality, drive higher order turnaround, and give us added capacity to better serve our customers in the southern and western regions of the country.” Customers serviced from the Blytheville facility will continue to be supported via the customer service teams at Atlas’s facilities in Chicago, Illinois; Plymouth, Michigan; and Harrow, Ontario.

AtlasTube, adivisionof JMCSteel Group, has announced that it is re-opening its hollow structural section (HSS) manufacturing facility in Blytheville, Arkansas. Starting in September, the facility will begin regularly scheduled mill rollings. Thedecision to re-open theplant will allow Atlas Tube to provide customer service, reduce product lead times and enhance delivery performance to customers in the Southeast and Southwest regions of the USA. Atlas will produce round, square, and rectangle HSS at this facility. These products are typically used in various

atlas Tube – Canada/USA sales@atlastube.com www.atlastube.com

Sutor signs supply contract with Bayi Iron & Steel Sutor Technology Group Limited has announced that its subsidiary Ningbo Zhehua Heavy Steel Pipe Manufacturing Co, Ltd has signed a contract to supply steel pipes to Baosteel Xinjiang Bayi Iron & Steel Company Limited (Bayi Iron & Steel). quality and market position of Sutor. With Chinese economy continuing to grow and inflation likely being under control, we are pleased with our current operations and anticipate a successful fourth fiscal quarter.” processes and technologies to convert steel manufactured by third parties into fine finished steel products, including hot-dip galvanised steel, pre-painted galvanised steel, acid-pickled steel, cold-rolled steel and welded steel pipe products. These products are used for household appliances, solar waters heaters, automobiles, IT and construction.

Sutor is a private, China-based manufacturer and distributor of high- end fine finished steel products and welded steel pipes used by a variety of downstream applications. The company uses a variety of in-house developed

Commenting on the contract, Ms Lifang Chen, CEO and chairwoman of Sutor, stated, “We are pleased to expand our customer base through this new contract win which demonstrates the

sutor Technology Group limited – China www.sutorcn.com

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