TPT November 2009

I ndustry N ews

Metals UK wins Queen’s award METALS UK, an international specialist metal service centre based in Blackburn, UK have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2009, for outstanding achievement in international trade. The Queen’s award for enterprise is the highest honour that can be bestowed upon a British company and is the UK’s top award for business performance. Over the past three years Metals UK’s export earnings have increased by a dramatic 412%, as the company has strengthened its position in international markets, currently supplying over 40 SUPERIOR Technologies Europe Ltd has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Mahindra Hinoday Ind Ltd to distribute their new HR4B ferrite cores for HF welding. HR4B material has been specially developed to exceed the performance of long-established ferrite cores available in the market today. The careful selection of high quality raw materials, together with precise manufacturing processes, ensures that HR4B ferrites give unparalleled performance in the tube welding application. Only the highest specification sintering furnaces and analytical inspection equipment is utilised to maintain quality and monitor performance throughout the ferrite manufacturing process. Careful tooling design ensures accurate mechanical dimensions to achieve high efficiency and low losses, save welding energy and concentrate HF power in the SN LONGOS Seixal (Megasa Group), Portugal’s largest manufacturer of long steel products, has placed an order with SMS Concast, Switzerland, a company of the SMS group, Germany, to modernise its six- strand continuous caster. SMS Concast will be carrying out extensive revamping work on the six-strand caster, which has a radius of 7m, to bring it up to date with

countries in Europe, the Americas, the middle and Far East, India and Australia. “We are delighted to receive our first Queen’s Award,” said Robert Whitehouse, Metals UK general manager, “Four years ago our business was purely domestic, while today business from international clients has risen to 50%, the markets we compete in are very aggressive and it is difficult to truly differentiate our offering from that of our competitors. “We take pride in our vigilance in determining the end use and end destination of all our metal we export. Winning this award in the current economic climate is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our team and makes me extremely proud to be part of the business.”

Metals UK supplies a wide range of duplex, super duplex, nickel alloys and stainless steel to the offshore, oil and gas, chemical, nuclear and aerospace industries. The company also offers full cutting and added value processing capabilities in house, including laser, water-jet, plasma and hi-definition plasma. This achievement follows a winning year for Metals UK. After securing new markets in Eastern Europe, Greece, Slovakia and Poland they were presented with the ‘Increased Export Sales’ award from the Chamber of Commerce in December 2008. Metals UK Fax: +44 12546 92063 size is required to fit inside an impedor assembly. These precision ferrites further increase efficiency in difficult welding applications. Superior Technologies will exclusively distribute HR4B cores in Europe (including Turkey) and also the Russia continent. Superior Technologies Europe Ltd – UK Fax: +44 13444 26626 Email: efoy@metalsuk.com Website: www.metalsuk.com

Superior Technologies Europe announces ferrite distribution deal

weld vee, thereby ensuring a high integrity weld zone. Mahindra Hinoday offers the widest range of sizes from any ferrite manufacturer and also provides precision ferrites for applications where a specific

Email: sales@st-europe.co.uk Website: www.st-europe.co.uk

 HR4B ferrite

Six-strand caster is modernised

and 160 x 160mm respectively. This revamp will enable the product range of the caster to be greatly enhanced in terms of quality. It will be possible to produce high carbon steels for springs and for pre- stressed concrete rebars as well as for cold-heading grades. SMS Group – Germany Fax: +49 21188 14386 Email: thilo.sagermann@sms-group.com Website: www.sms-group.com

the latest technology. This technology includes new hydraulic oscillators, electromagnetic mould stirrers, strand guide systems, primary and secondary cooling systems, torch cutters and an advanced Level 2 automation system. Cast sections of 120 x 120mm and 130 x 130mm are currently being produced. After the revamp, the machine will be able to cast two new sections of 140 x 140mm

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