TPi April 2010

news business & market

Holding Centravis certified by Aramco Overseas Co outside diameter up to 114mm and U-tubes with outside diameter up to 38mm.

Centravis product quality is confirmed by international certificate EN ISO 9001-2000. Products are manufactured according to American standard ASTM, German DIN, French NF, Italian UNI, Russian GOST and TU.

Manufacturer of seamless stainless steel tubes, Centravis, has been successfully certified and has joined the ranks of the officially approved suppliers of Saudi Aramco, a leading company in the oil and gas sector. During the audit of the Centravis Production Ukraine plant (Dnepropetrovsk region, Nikopol), representatives of Aramco Overseas Co visited the cold shop and the hot shop, and reviewed in detail the production technology, new equipment, environmental and social regulations, and product quality management system. On 29 December 2009, according to the Internal Standards of Quality Management System and requirements to the production process technology of the companies Saudi Aramco Co and Aramco Overseas Co, and also of the International Quality Auditing System, Centravis was granted the status of official supplier of Saudi Aramco. This status ensures the possibility to supply seamless stainless steel tubes with

blue PE for the prestigious new water supply main from Fobney to Tilehurst near Reading, UK, a 7km scheme for Thames Water. Contractor Murphy Group selected PE over ductile iron due to its engineering performance for this particular application. The installation was in a high water table area, close to a water course, and running across fields in some sections, so long lengths of butt-fused PE proved advantageous. PE’s flexibility also negated the need for many bends. The installation is part of Thames Water’s ongoing investment in its water network. Yuriy Atanasov, general manager of Centravis Holding, commented, “It is a great honour for us to be in the rank of officially approved suppliers of the biggest company in the oil and gas sector in the Middle East. We plan to strengthen our cooperation by extending the certified product assortment up to the diameter 219mm.” Centravis’s product portfolio includes more than 1,000 standard sizes of tubes and pipes of more than 100 types of corrosion-resistant and heat resistant steel grades in seven segments: general tubes and pipes; boiler tubes and pipes; heat-exchanger tubing; instrumentation tubing; furnace tubing; hollow bars; and Ni-alloys. Products are used in the chemical and petrochemical industries, nuclear and thermal power engineering, non-ferrous metallurgy, machine and shipbuilding, and the food industry.

Centravis Production Ukraine info@centravis.com www.centravis.com

CityPipe 2010 CityPipe 2010, ‘Piping Systems for Municipal Infrastructure: Construction, Diagnostics, Repair and Operation’, will be held in Moscow, 1-4 June, in the IEC Crocus Expo exhibition complex. Initially part of the ECWATECH water and wastewater technology show, CityPipe has now become a separate exhibition, attracting companies from other industry sectors of municipal utilities, including gas, power and heat supply, and communications. In 2010, the 5 th International Trade Fair and Conference CityPipe will be presented in parallel with ECWATECH and the NO-DIG Moscow exhibition. The exhibition will incorporate subjects such as pipes and man- holes; equipment for pipe manu- facturing; valvesand fittings; pipeline laying and repair; technologies, machines and materials for construction and repair of piping systems; trenchless technologies; operation of piping systems; machines, equipment and materials for piping systems operation; pipeline inspection; quality control; corrosion prevention; design and research; and IT technologies in piping systems design and operation. Sibico International Ltd – Russia info@sibico.com www.sibico.com www.citypipe.ru

Radius Systems’ 710mm water pipe deployed in new water supply main

Following investment in new pipe extrusion lines and fittings for polyethylene (PE) pipe diameters up to 1,200mm, Radius Systems was selected for the supply of 710mm dark

Radius Systems – UK sales@radius-systems.co.uk www.radius-systems.co.uk

Butt-fused pipe awaiting installation for Thames Water

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Tube Products International April 2010

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