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Expanding production of steel welded pipes

150,000m 2 . The company’s next goal is to invest in a cold rolling mill.

Macedonian producer of steel welded pipes, IGM Trade, has expanded its range of steel welded pipes. The company’s new pipe line can produce square pipes up to 250x250x12mm and rectangular pipes up to 300x200x12mm, increasing the capacity of the factory to 250,000t per year. The company has also invested in new slitting lines: one combo slitting line, and one to accommodate widths of 2,000mm, thickness of 16mm and lengths of 15m. The owner of the factory, Mr Ilija Gechev, said that IGM Trade is the largest green-field investment in South East Europe, with an area of 400,000m 2 and covered space in buildings and halls of

The production programme of IGM Trade also includes round pipes up to 168.3x6mm, tested pipes under pressure of 50 bar up to 88.9x4mm, oval pipes and RP profiles. The company supplies around 10% of its pipes to the domestic market, and exports 90% to the EU and Balkan markets. Production is certified with ISO 9001 and CE- mark.

IGM Trade – Macedonia info@igmtrade.com www.igmtrade.com

IGM Trade’s new line will allow it to produce an increased range of steel welded pipes

Steel products from Turkey Hasçelik, a manufacturer and importer of steel products, holds stock of approximately 50,000 tons in six warehouses, to meet urgent requirements. In the company’s continuous hot-rolling mill located in Kocaeli, Turkey, hot rolled round, flat, square and hexagonal steel bars are produced, with a capacity of 200,000 tons per year. Hasçelik also produces cold drawn, peeled and ground steel round bars, as well as square, hexagonal, and flat bars in two service centres located in Istanbul and Konya. The company’s product range consists of hot-rolled steel bars (round, flat, square and hexagonal), cold drawn bright steel bars (round, flat, square and hexagonal), and peeled or ground bright steel round bars. Main grades are S235JR, St37.2, S355JR, St52.3, C10, C20, C30, C40, Ck45, C60, SAE1010, SAE1020, SAE1030, SAE1040, SAE1045, SAE1050, 55CR3 and 60SIMN5. Besides production, Hasçelik imports special steel bars and seamless steel tubes from leading producers. Such products include hot rolled round bars, forged round bars, forged square bars, hot rolled flat bars, seamless steel tubes and ground round bars.

Hasçelik San ve Tic AS – Turkey hascelik@hascelik.com • www.hascelik.com

Design software compatible with Windows 7

faster processing times than with earlier processors. CFdesign upfront CFD software integrates compre- hensive fluid-flow and heat-transfer simulation into early phases of design and engineering, when companies can improve product quality, time-to-market, and ultimately profitability through the product life cycle.

Windows systems,” commented Derrek Cooper, product manager, Blue Ridge Numerics. “It is very important that our customers are able to keep their equipment and operating systems up-to-date and be assured that CFdesign will ‘just work’ on new versions of the Windows platform.” In addition, CFdesign 2010 supports the new Core i7 processor from Intel, providing users with up to 2.5 times operating

Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc, a leader in upfront CFD software, has announced that CFdesign 2010 has been fully tested and is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7. The process ensures that CFdesign 2010 has passed Microsoft- designed tests for compatibility, reliability and performance on the Windows 7 platform, using both 32- and 64-bit processors. CFdesign is also compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Blue Ridge Numerics – USA paul.whalen@cfdesign.com www.cfdesign.com

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