TPT November 2009

I ndustry N ews

RaftGibson takes lots of positives from EXPO PACK in Mexico

RathGibson is a worldwide manufacturer of highly engineered stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing for diverse industries such as chemical, petrochemical, power generation, oil and gas, food, bever- age, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, medical, biotechnology, and general commercial. RathGibson’s corporate headquarters are located close to Chicago in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Manufacturing locations include: Janesville, Wisconsin, North Branch, New Jersey, Clarksville, Arkansas (Greenville Tube), and Marrero, Louisiana (Mid-South Control Line). In addition to the sales offices in Janesville, North Branch, and Marrero, RathGibson has also strategically placed sales offices in Houston, Texas, USA; Shanghai, China; Manama, Bahrain; Melbourne, Australia; Seoul, Republic of Korea; Mumbai, India; Singapore; Vienna, Austria; and Buenos Aires, Argentina. RathGibson – USA Fax: +1 84 727 62471 Website: www.rathgibson.com

RATHGIBSON, a manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing, recently attended EXPO PACK Mexico. Cristian Rohde, director of business development for central and South America said: “The show allowed us to meet and respond to the needs of high purity tubing end users and channel partners in Latin America.” Hundreds of companies from 22 Latin American countries exhibited at EXPO PACK Mexico, a well-respected and well-attended packaging and processing materials and equipment tradeshow for the pharmaceutical, food, beverage, cosmetics, medical, and personal care industries. Mr Rohde and Jody Hamilton, sales manager for high purity products, were on-hand to fulfil RathGibson’s commitment to providing customers with real solutions in real time.

Ms Hamilton said: “RathGibson is proud to have been represented at the show by Stainless Macro Trade SA de CV. The company, based in Queretaro, Mexico, was the only business to exhibit tubing.” With RathGibson by their side, Stainless Macro Trade received 653 visitors, 40% of whom were interested in completing transactions within 60 days. While together for EXPO PACK Mexico, RathGibson and Stainless Macro Trade created training programmes on RathGibson’s high purity tubing for their channel partners in the Latin American region. The classes, which will be led by Ms Hamilton with support from Mr. Rodhe, will take place in Queretaro on 14 August. RathGibson product and market-based training sessions are held for distributors and end-users around the world.

International presence for crane brands WASK and Sperryn, both leading utilities brands of Crane Building Services & Utilities demonstrated their products at this year’s World Gas at the La Rural exhibition and conference centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As one of the market leaders in the supply of pipe fittings, pipeline maintenance equipment and controls to the global gas distribution sector, WASK and Sperryn remain dedicated to applying the latest technology in order to attempt to produce world-leading and cost effective products that deliver safe and reliable performance to the gas industry. As well as manufacturing gas controls including regulators and emergency control valves of the highest quality, Sperryn also supplies component kits for meter installation, working alongside many meter manufacturers to achieve the best solutions. WASK and Sperryn also exhibited other regulation and jointing technologies, each of which it say is designed with safety and cost effectiveness in mind. WASK – UK Sperryn – UK Crane – UK Website: www.wask-uk.com Website: www.sperryn.co.uk Website: www.cranebsu.com

 WASK flange adaptors will be shown at World Gas Conference, Buenos Aires

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