French steel pipe producer Vallourec has announced that it has inaugurated its new premium finishing plant for oil and gas tubes (OCTG) in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The new finishing plant built with a total investment of $200 million will ...
German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that Germany-based ArcelorMittal Bremen has placed an order with SMS Logistiksysteme for the supply of a fully automated sampling station for X-grade line pipe steels, including a connected ...
Tags: SMS Siemag, ArcelorMittal Bremen, SMS Logistiksysteme, supply
Disruptive innovation is at it again with the new M18 Milwaukee blower. ?Well it may not be that disruptive because Makita has had one for a while now. ?The 0884-20?puts out a bit more CFM than the Makita but with less airspeed. ?Recently ...
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Russian pipe producer TMK has announced that its subsidiary TMK-INOX, which specializes in supplying stainless steel pipes, has commissioned a new metal slitting line. According to TMK, the new line is designed for slitting metal coils ...
Tags: TMK, TMK-INOX, new metal slitting line, stainless pipe products
YC Inox, one of the major stainless steel service centers and also the welded pipe makers in Taiwan, said its consolidated revenues in December of 2013 were NT$2.141 billion, increased by 18.62% month on month and 20.72% year on year ...
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A nationwide overhaul of oil pipelines launched after a fatal explosion in Qingdao, Shandong province, has found hazards in many areas that could lead to similar incidents, according to the country's top work safety watchdog. The overhaul ...
Tags: Oil, Oil Pipelines, Oil Pipelines Defects
It seems like only yesterday we awarded the Ford Fiesta ST a win against its Peugeot 208 GTi and Volkswagen Polo GTI rivals (read more here), then went a step further by crowning it one of the best-ever hot-hatches created and one of the ...
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Additional Extruder Expands Recycler's Capacity A new extrusion line has been commissioned by AXION Recycled Plastics Inc. to help it increase its manufacturing capacity to meet growing demand.?AXION is a reprocessor of recycled plastic ...
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International oil and gas services specialist HS Ocean Group (HSOG) has been awarded a multi-million dollar refurbishment and upgrade of a high-specification jack-up drilling rig at its facility at Labidco Port, La Brea in Trinidad. ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Monday its preliminary determinations in the antidumping (AD) investigations of welded austenitic stainless steel pressure pipe from Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. For Malaysia, the DOC has ...
Tags: Pressure Pipe, Stainless Steel, Preliminary AD Margins
Jiangsu Province-based Chinese steel pipe producer Changbao Steel Tube Co. has commissioned its production facilities for high-end oil well pipes, as reported by Beijing-based state-owned China Metallurgical Group Co. (MCC) on January 6. ...
Tags: Steel Tube Commissions, Pipe Production, Steel, Steel News
Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with the Jordan-based Al Omrania Company, defining Al Omrania as the principal local representative of Interpipe in Jordan. ...
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Turkish steelmakers saw export volumes fall 7.3% in 2013 to 18.4 million metric tonnes, while revenues dropped 10.6% to $13.9 billion, the Turkish Steel Exporters' Association (CIB) said Monday. Inroads made into exporting to countries ...
Tags: Steel Exports, Mineral
Zinc coating on galvanized steel pipe surface corrosion technology to arc spray application is the most common application prospect is very broad, which is characterized by arc spraying equipment, both live wire is heated, melted, atomized, ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Galvanized Pipe, Pipe, Construction
November was wet and windy for many across the UK, leading to soaked streets, flooding and the risk of a terrible side effect: power outages. Once again, it is important to highlight the need for proper protection against water ingress into ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Power Supply