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Never change a winning team – a well known proverb from the world of international football that can be traced back to the legendary trainer Sir Alf Ramsey. It is when considering this point that I have always asked myself what makes up a successful team, or better put, a team which is good over the long term.

Qualifications, experience and the complementary know-how of all the participants are certainly all important. In addition to this, however, respect, trust, as well as an understanding and tolerance are also part of the necessary requirements. Yet that alone is not enough to establish a successful cooperation, and to maintain it for years or decades.

In 1988, the first TUBE trade fair took place in Düsseldorf, co-initiated by the International Tube Association (ITA), which has been based in the UK for a long time. Today, 25 years later, the former industry meet-up initi-ated in Düsseldorf has become something of a global player in the trade fair scene, is represented with offshoot trade fairs all over the world – including in Asia, Brazil, China, India, Russia and the UAE, and has once more confirmed its position as the leading international trade fair for the tube industry in 2014 with an increasing number of exhibitors and square

meters of space. None of this would ever have been possible without the energy or passion of the people who are responsible for it: Along with the national and international trade fair organisers, also the national and international boards of the ITA, as well as the many members of the ITA who feel a sense of obligation towards their sector and as exhibitors or visitors contribute to the success of the corresponding TUBE trade fairs at all the locations all over the world – with the consistent participation of the ITA as the conceptual force behind the Tube trade fair.

A shared will to achieve success and a sense of passion for what one has dedicated oneself to – such are the further ingredients of a successful, long-term cooperation. Only in this way is it possible to explain how Messe Düsseldorf and its international locations have succeeded in managing what have sometimes been tsunami-like conditions on the national and international markets over the course of the previous years. And only in this way can I explain to myself the recent relocation of the ITA with a new team, which was completed so smoothly and without hindrance. A shared will to achieve success and a sense of passion for what one has dedicated oneself to – I believe these to be the most important ingredients in the cooperation between the Tube trade fair management and the ITA. And not to mention the sense of humour and fun in working together, as without these, getting through the sometimes hectic day to day business would be impossible.

In this context I would like to wish all of those helping with and managing TUBE 2014, all members of the ITA, and all the exhibitors and visitors at TUBE 2014 a successful trade fair and good trade fair business. However, along with all the attention to detail and responsibility, please do not forget to have fun in your shared efforts!

Sincerely

Dr. Gunther Voswinckel

Greetings fromDr. Gunther VoswinckelPresident International Tube Association (ITA)

Dr. Gunther Voswinckel President ITA


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Dear Member

I am very pleased to present this very special first edition of the ITAtube Journal 2014, referring to the TUBE 2014, taking place at the Düsseldorf fair grounds from 7th to 11th April. The editorial input from our members has again been huge. To my great joy, not only the familiar “big players”, but also small to medium-sized companies from all over the world have delivered interesting articles, some of them for the first time ever. I re-ally hope that this will encourage more ITA members to take advantage of the members-only-benefit we offer with the ITAtube Journal and the ITA website.

The closer the TUBE 2014 comes, the more I am looking forward to meet-ing and greeting ITA members at the ITA booth in Hall 4/F17. It is always a great pleasure to talk personally to the people we are in contact all year long, but only via phone or e-mail. I am sure we will have a lot of fun!

Talking at the TUBE or about the TUBE includes talking about trends, market turmoils, unforeseeable as well as unforgettable events, budgets, business and an exciting yet thrilling relocation. Since the reorganisation of the ITA back in mid-2012, we have proceeded slowly but steadily in shifting all the documents, accounts and software that made this organ-ization run, from the UK to Germany where we are now located. Assisted by a team of highly motivated experts in all fields, it took us almost eighteen months to finalise what we were determined to do. Finally we have managed together with our team to solve even the most complicat-ed details hidden in German and British laws, audits, tax systems and so on. All’s well that ends well: As of January this year we are registered in Germany as the International Tube Association e.V. (ITA).

We have already informed you about our new address, but the changes we have made within the organisation and location affect neither the membership matters nor the benefits we offer. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Last but not least: Please do not miss the opportunity to visit us at the ITA booth in Hall 5, F17 at TUBE 2014. It is our pleasure to get to know you even closer than already. I am sure this will be both informative and enjoyable!

It is in this spirit that I wish you a prosperous TUBE 2014 with lots of good business contacts, contracts and far-reaching perspectives.

Yours sincerely

Peter Byroslawsky

Greetings fromPeter ByroslawskyExecutive Secretary ITA

Peter Byroslawsky Executive Secretary


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Since the very first Tube Düsseldorf event held in 1988 the global trade fair player Düsseldorf has cooperated with the leading industry associ-ation for tubes, ITA - the International Tube Association. In terms of turnover Messe Düsseldorf is the 5th largest trade fair company worldwide – and in Germany it is even the second largest!

Not least due to the commitment of a global player like the ITA asso-ciation it has been possible to establish Tube Düsseldorf as the leading expert event for the international tube industry to this very day. Boast-ing numerous spin-off events around the globe and rising exhibitor and square metre numbers Tube once again confirms its No.1 position in this industry also in 2014. We expect to the tune of 1,100 exhibitors occupy-ing net exhibition space of over 50,000 square metres for the first time.

The good business relations we maintain with the ITA mean continuity for a trade fair business, whose day-to-day operations can often be affected by the ups and downs of both national and international markets.

The International Tube Association has supported the TUBE trade fairs of Messe Düsseldorf sustainably from the outset. This is why we appreciate ITA as a reliable partner.

Thanks to this cooperation with ITA we as Messe Düsseldorf were able to launch TUBE Düsseldorf 25 years ago and later also the international satellite fairs Tube India, Tube Russia, Tube China, Tube Southeast Asia and Tekno Tube Arabia.

The international reach of the association that is represented on all con-tinents, in many regions and over 70 countries – with the exception of Africa and Australia – is also reflected in the international origin of ex-hibitors and visitors.

We look forward to a continued, fruitful and successful cooperation with an association that – just like us as trade fair organisers – is constantly working on improving and reinventing itself.

On this note: join the best – join Tube 2014 in Düsseldorf!

Welcoming Remarks by Friedrich-Georg Kehrer Director of Tube 2014

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Front page: Complete Production Lines for Precision Steel Tube and

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We are very pleased ...Editorial

Greetings from Dr. Gunther Voswinckel 4 Greetings from Peter Byroslawsky 5 Welcoming Remarks from Friedrich-Georg Kehrer 6 Table of contents 8

News from our membersCompanies

Adda Fer Meccanica – Tube industry solutions 10 ASMAG Group – Complete welding and integrated finishing lines 12 CMS – Eddy current and ultrasonic solutions for tubes inspection 14 Bültmann GmbH – Finishing line for small stainless steel tubes 15 Danieli W+K Industrie Technik – New pipe mill equipment 16 Danieli Centro Tube and Danieli W+K – Pipe mill solutions 17 data M – 5 reasons for COPRA®RF 18 EMAG – Oilfield technology components 20 Euromaquina – Meeting demands and expectations 22 Fives Bronx – New positions and new employee 24 ExpoTurco – Exhibition sector has been growing in Turkey 26 Fontijne Formitt – Manufacturing of a heavy diesel canning cell 27 Fontijne Grotnes – New market demands for full length pipe expander 28 Gräbener Maschinentechnik – New technology presentation at Tube 29 Harve Initech – The most advanced pipe coating plant 30 Haven Manufacturing – Multi-function machine 31 Interpipe – Interpipe continues its development in Iraq 32 Interpipe – Development of big diameter seamless pipes 33 Al-Far Group – 260,000 qm in the Al-Muqar Industrial Estate, Jordan 34 KBD Engineering – Controlled heat treatment 35 Lazzari – Optimization of new sawing machine 37 Linsinger – Top Technology from Austria 38 Zumbach – Novel and intelligent solutions 39 Meta Vision Systems – Celebration of 30th anniversary at Tube 40 Olimpia 80 – Linear Cage Forming tube mill in Turkey 42 PGK Consult – Representing Nexus-Europe GmbH 44 Reika – Satisfaction secured new job 45 Roll-Kraft – Recieving Telly Award 46 Schuler – Alliance to supply large pipe lines 48 Schuler – New chairman of the Louis Schuler Fund 49 RMTS – World’s first DVD Training System for Tube Mill Operators 50 Schwarze-Robitec – Time-optimised and precise control 51 Sektor – Premium agency for trade fairs and events 52 Sikora – Presentation of a broad range of products at Tube 54 Sikora – Extended service 55


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World steel tube production

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Global steel tube production reaches 37.4 million tons in the fi rst quarter 2013, an increase of 4.3%. A signif-icant increase of production for all

kind of tubes is in China, 13.9% in total. The share of China’s world steel production exceeded the 50% mark. The steel tube production in

the rest of the world is decreasing, signifi cant in Europe.

Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahlrohre e.V.

Markets Markets

seamless tubes welded tubes <406 welded tubes >406 welded tubes TOTALRegion/country 1.QR. 1.QR. Change 1.QR. 1.QR. Change 1.QR. 1.QR. Change 1.QR. 1.QR. Change 1.QR. 1.QR. Change 2013 2012 % 2013 2012 % 2013 2012 % 2013 2012 % 2013 2012 %

Germany 311 352 -11,6 195 246 -20,7 217 142 52,8 412 388 6,2 723 740 -2,3

EU (+ Germany) 1.043 1.190 -12,4 1.808 1.996 -9,4 418 436 -4,1 2.226 2.432 -8,5 3.269 3.622 -9,7

USA 631 721 -12,5 2.022 2.208 -8,4 288 202 42,6 2.310 2.410 -4,1 2.941 3.131 -6,1

Japan 397 480 -17,3 933 848 10,0 459 480 -4,4 1.392 1.328 4,8 1.789 1.808 -1,1

GUS 1.096 1.082 1,3 1.258 1.257 0,1 578 759 -23,8 1.836 2.016 -8,9 2.932 3.098 -5,4

India 200 200 0,0 600 300 100,0 275 575 -52,2 875 875 0,0 1.075 1.075 0,0

China 7.588 6.444 17,8 9.485 8.296 14,3 2.100 2.100 0,0 11.585 10.396 11,4 19.173 16.840 13,9

Other 596 658 -9,4 4.386 4.400 -0,3 1.255 1.248 0,6 5.641 5.648 -0,1 6.237 6.306 -1,1

World 11.551 10.775 7,2 20.492 19.305 6,1 5.373 5.800 -7,4 25.865 25.105 3,0 37.416 35.880 4,3

fi gures include estimations

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Welded tubes <406 in Tto.Welded tubes <406 in Tto.Welded tubes <406 in Tto.Welded tubes <406 in Tto.

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Welded tubes >406 in Tto.Welded tubes >406 in Tto.Welded tubes >406 in Tto.

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Welded tubes sum in Tto.Welded tubes sum in Tto.Welded tubes sum in Tto.

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Germany 311 352 -11,6 195 246 -20,7 217 142 52,8 412 388 6,2 723 740 -2,3

EU (+ Germany) 1.043 1.190 -12,4 1.808 1.996 -9,4 418 436 -4,1 2.226 2.432 -8,5 3.269 3.622 -9,7

USA 631 721 -12,5 2.022 2.208 -8,4 288 202 42,6 2.310 2.410 -4,1 2.941 3.131 -6,1

Japan 397 480 -17,3 933 848 10,0 459 480 -4,4 1.392 1.328 4,8 1.789 1.808 -1,1

GUS 1.096 1.082 1,3 1.258 1.257 0,1 578 759 -23,8 1.836 2.016 -8,9 2.932 3.098 -5,4

India 200 200 0,0 600 300 100,0 275 575 -52,2 875 875 0,0 1.075 1.075 0,0

China 7.588 6.444 17,8 9.485 8.296 14,3 2.100 2.100 0,0 11.585 10.396 11,4 19.173 16.840 13,9

Other 596 658 -9,4 4.386 4.400 -0,3 1.255 1.248 0,6 5.641 5.648 -0,1 6.237 6.306 -1,1

World 11.551 10.775 7,2 20.492 19.305 6,1 5.373 5.800 -7,4 25.865 25.105 3,0 37.416 35.880 4,3


Germany 311 352 -11,6 195 246 -20,7 217 142 52,8 412 388 6,2 723 740 -2,3

EU (+ Germany) 1.043 1.190 -12,4 1.808 1.996 -9,4 418 436 -4,1 2.226 2.432 -8,5 3.269 3.622 -9,7

USA 631 721 -12,5 2.022 2.208 -8,4 288 202 42,6 2.310 2.410 -4,1 2.941 3.131 -6,1

Japan 397 480 -17,3 933 848 10,0 459 480 -4,4 1.392 1.328 4,8 1.789 1.808 -1,1

GUS 1.096 1.082 1,3 1.258 1.257 0,1 578 759 -23,8 1.836 2.016 -8,9 2.932 3.098 -5,4

India 200 200 0,0 600 300 100,0 275 575 -52,2 875 875 0,0 1.075 1.075 0,0

China 7.588 6.444 17,8 9.485 8.296 14,3 2.100 2.100 0,0 11.585 10.396 11,4 19.173 16.840 13,9

Other 596 658 -9,4 4.386 4.400 -0,3 1.255 1.248 0,6 5.641 5.648 -0,1 6.237 6.306 -1,1

World 11.551 10.775 7,2 20.492 19.305 6,1 5.373 5.800 -7,4 25.865 25.105 3,0 37.416 35.880 4,3


Germany 311 352 -11,6 195 246 -20,7 217 142 52,8 412 388 6,2 723 740 -2,3

EU (+ Germany) 1.043 1.190 -12,4 1.808 1.996 -9,4 418 436 -4,1 2.226 2.432 -8,5 3.269 3.622 -9,7

USA 631 721 -12,5 2.022 2.208 -8,4 288 202 42,6 2.310 2.410 -4,1 2.941 3.131 -6,1

Japan 397 480 -17,3 933 848 10,0 459 480 -4,4 1.392 1.328 4,8 1.789 1.808 -1,1

GUS 1.096 1.082 1,3 1.258 1.257 0,1 578 759 -23,8 1.836 2.016 -8,9 2.932 3.098 -5,4

India 200 200 0,0 600 300 100,0 275 575 -52,2 875 875 0,0 1.075 1.075 0,0

China 7.588 6.444 17,8 9.485 8.296 14,3 2.100 2.100 0,0 11.585 10.396 11,4 19.173 16.840 13,9

Other 596 658 -9,4 4.386 4.400 -0,3 1.255 1.248 0,6 5.641 5.648 -0,1 6.237 6.306 -1,1

World 11.551 10.775 7,2 20.492 19.305 6,1 5.373 5.800 -7,4 25.865 25.105 3,0 37.416 35.880 4,3


Germany 311 352 -11,6 195 246 -20,7 217 142 52,8 412 388 6,2 723 740 -2,3

EU (+ Germany) 1.043 1.190 -12,4 1.808 1.996 -9,4 418 436 -4,1 2.226 2.432 -8,5 3.269 3.622 -9,7

USA 631 721 -12,5 2.022 2.208 -8,4 288 202 42,6 2.310 2.410 -4,1 2.941 3.131 -6,1

Japan 397 480 -17,3 933 848 10,0 459 480 -4,4 1.392 1.328 4,8 1.789 1.808 -1,1

GUS 1.096 1.082 1,3 1.258 1.257 0,1 578 759 -23,8 1.836 2.016 -8,9 2.932 3.098 -5,4

India 200 200 0,0 600 300 100,0 275 575 -52,2 875 875 0,0 1.075 1.075 0,0

China 7.588 6.444 17,8 9.485 8.296 14,3 2.100 2.100 0,0 11.585 10.396 11,4 19.173 16.840 13,9

Other 596 658 -9,4 4.386 4.400 -0,3 1.255 1.248 0,6 5.641 5.648 -0,1 6.237 6.306 -1,1

World 11.551 10.775 7,2 20.492 19.305 6,1 5.373 5.800 -7,4 25.865 25.105 3,0 37.416 35.880 4,3

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Adda Fer Meccanica, a leading Italian company specialized in engineering and manufacturing of plants for production of electro welded tubes and coil processing equipment, will exhibit as every year, at “TUBE & WIRE” interna-tional fair in Dusseldorf. During the event, which will be held between the 7th and 11th of April 2014, Adda Fer will be present with its staff in the hall 06, booth 6D02 and will present the latest achievements of company’s activity.

Despite the hostile current situa-tion on the market, Adda Fer has concluded last year with positive and encouraging outcome due to gaining substantial contracts and due to the installation and start up of recently manufactured plants both on the national territory and worldwide. For instance, Adda Fer has just accomplished an installa-tion, for an important Middle East customer, of a line for cutting, han-dling, end facing and hydro testing of pipes up to 8 inches in diameter completely designed and manufac-tured by Adda Fer.

Flying Cut-off Double Blade Shear DB8Double blade cut off with a con-trolled movement along the or-thogonal axis for the range of di-ameters up to 219,1 mm. and their derivatives.

It is a result of a basic project evo-lution, with already very high basic performances. Its last configuration gives the following advantages:

extreme flexibility - the wide range of sizes and sections that can be cut constantly with the best parameters requested by

the blades (also for this machine either HSS or TCT);

high-quality precision cut and a long blades’ service life.

Unique cutting line in the world can follow unequal pathways (see diagram 1).

A double vice group both at inlet and outlet side arrange the block-ing of the tube during the phase of cut in order to avoid dangerous vibrations. Small distance between the clamps and the blades (only 100 mm) also helps to increase the use of the same set of up to 7,000 cuts.

It should be emphasized that Siemens SINAMICS drives is mount-ed of flying cutoff, the control log-ic of the board is managed by a Si-motion with Profinet cabling.

The software is developed on 2 levels: the first, PLC, made by tool “SIMOTION Scout” while the second, the supervisor’s touch screen , made with the new development environ-ment Siemens Simatic TIA Wincc Comfort.

The operator’s interface graphic pages will be designed to allow operators a rapid takeover of the machine after the start-up.

Interactive diagnostics allow the operator to immediately identify the cause of any operational stop or anomaly of the system.

The alarm / failure signals follow its logical sequence, avoiding irregular indications and the operator will be timely in helping to solve function-al problems, the alarms will also be saved in data base for diagnostics and maintenance. Pages with trend

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Tube industry solutionsADDA FER MECCANICA

Adda Fer Meccanica Headquarters

Adda Fer Meccanica Warehouse

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graphs of the main parameters measured by the machine will be instantly available and data based.

Handling H8The handling system is composed by 146 meters long roll outlet table with single or double discharge for pipes from 6 m to 13,5 m long. All levers are shielded by soft material (polyurethane) in order to prevent tube contact surface scratching/abrasion during handling. All the rolls are driven in pairs.

Also 12 meters of roll outlet table is provided, 5 pieces of fix final stopper place.

Moreover 136 meters of gravity transfers ensure the movement of the tubes in the various areas for finishing, then 140 meters of trans-fer motorized covered by polyure-thane ensure the final positioning of the pipes in four huge controlled clamps where the tubes are collect-ed in order to be transported to the warehouse.

All handling process is fully auto-matic without the need of opera-tors involvement.

End Facing and Chamfering EF8The end facing and chamfering machine, is composed by a trans-fer system between the different stations, two end facing and cham-fering heads and a tube aligning system. The performances of the machine guarantee the process-ing of a continuous production at a maximum speed of 60 m/min of pipe line with shortest pipes and calculated for 600 tubes per hour.

Hydrostatic Test HT8The Hydro Test machine can test No.2 tubes simultaneously up to diameter 168.3 mm at 250 bar. For larger diameters, it is possible to test only one tube at a time at 250 bar or No.2 tubes simultane-ously at lower pressure.

The maximum test pressure must be set according to the character-istics of the tube to be tested and in accordance with the regulations to use. The maximum weight of the transportable tube is 575 kg which corresponds to a pipe with 219.1 mm diameter, 8.2 mm thickness and 13.5 m length.

The results reached by the compa-ny during the recent years, con-firm that the choice, made a few years ago, to focus its activity on engineering and manufacturing of brand-new equipment instead of overhauling and servicing second hand lines, was the most successful step. The transfer of its administra-tive and productive headquarter in the new industrial complex of Mapello (BG), over an area of about 13.000 square meters, in 2 build-ings of 4.000 square meters each, has certainly facilitated the devel-opment process and allowed Adda Fer Meccanica to establish itself as a strong and reliable counterpart not only for the study and manu-facture of single machines, but also as a partner able to provide com-plete and integrated solutions for the production of steel pipes.


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Adda Fer Meccanica Srl

Via Giulio Natta N. 9 24030 Mapello (BG) Italy

Tel.: +39 035 493 2174 Fax: +39 035 494 6564

[email protected] www.addafer.it

Handling H8

Handling H8

End Facing and Chamfering EF8

Hydrostatic Test HT8

Meet us atTube & Wire 2014

DüsseldorfHall 06, Booth 6D02

The ASMAG Group is well-known as innovative supplier of machinery and equipment for the steel and non-ferrous metal industry. It com-bines two strong enterprises:

ASMAG, founded 1984, located in Austria, with its core business design and manufacture of drawing, straight-ening, testing, cutting, chamfering, stacking and bundling machines and SEUTHE, founded 1899, located in Germany, with its core business de-sign and manufacture of tube weld-ing and section mills.

In 2013 Saudi Arabia’s leading pro-ducer of steel pipes for the oil and

gas industry has installed a SEUTHE mill to strengthen one of its flour-ishing business segments for 8” API pipes. The first class ma-chine quality ‘Made in Germany’, the fully developed cage forming technology (CTA), a special mul-ti-head saw design and a compris-ing service convinced to decide for a SEUTHE mill. The delivered cage forming mill is able to produce the huge diameter range 60.3 up to 219.1 mm by automatic roll adjust-ment of only one universal forming roll set.

For a premier steel tube manufac-turer in Germany the ASMAG group has supplied two high-precision steel tube welding lines and a finishing line for API tube also in 2013. The API tube finishing line includes a straightening machine, a cutting and chamfering unit and a testing line for tubes up to 7”. One of the highlights of this line is the fully automated high-precision 10-roll-straigthener. As a result

of several new developments the changeover time of the entire line is the shortest in this industry.

With these installations as a refer-ence the ASMAG group has shown its expertise in supplying machin-ery and fully integrated production lines according to the API standard - from the sheet coil to the ready for sale tube bundles.

Contrary to the general trend, the ASMAG group with more than 200 employees manufactures its ma-chines and installations in its own workshops in Austria and Germany. At both locations the engineering, automation, manufacturing and assembly are under a single roof. This results in high manufacturing quality, an extraordinary level of flexibility and outstanding person-al service and support.


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Complete welding and integrated finishing lines for API tube production

ASMAG GmbH

SEUTHE-Tube Mill

ASMAG GmbH

Liesenwaldstrasse 3 4644 Scharnstein, Austria

Tel.: +43 7616 8801 0

[email protected] www.asmag.at

SEUTHE GmbH

Deilinghofer Str. 11 58675 Hemer, Germany

Tel.: +49 2372 506 0

[email protected] www.seuthe.com


DüsseldorfHall 06, Booth 6A02

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Atomat SpAStrada di Oselin 16/17 | 33047 Remanzacco Udine | ItalyTel. +39 0432 648511 | Fax +39 0432 667101www.atomat.com | [email protected]

discover the new evolution of the human-machine interface

7–11 april 2014 ATOMAT and MTM

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Eddy current and ultrasonic solutions for tubes inspection

CMS – Controle Mesure Systèmes

With more than 25 years of expe-rience in designing and manufac-turing eddy current and ultrasonic instruments and systems, Contrôle Mesure Systèmes installs worldwide its ultrasonic rotating head, de-signed for special steel tube man-ufacturers like stainless steel, tita-nium, zirconium, and carbon steel.

RotoUTscan, result of several years of R&D, allows testing a large di-ameter range from 6 to 250 mm and detect longitudinal and tranversal defects, thickness measurement as well as OD – ID and ovalization.

Main advantages :

4 inspection targets in one sys-tem

great modularity: each block can be change separately

reliable, totally adapted to cus-tomer configuration

large range of sizes

Real time WT/OD/ID

high resolution up to 1µm

high accuracy up to ± 2µm

min OD 6 mm & WT 0.4 mm

Min flaw depth 5% or 10% WT

Due to its great flexibility, RotoUTscan can be adapted to all customers configurations; installed in a strong control bench it can be combined with eddy current sys-tems allowing a fullbody inspection of the tube. A supervision software PROBUS collects data provided by NDT equipments, displays com-bined signals (UT / ET) and creates inspection reports that can be used

as control evidences for quality ser-vices and customers. Data stored can be recall for analyze and quali-ty treatment.

CMS is also a well-known compa-ny in eddy current instruments and systems: magnetizing and demag-netizing units, probes and acces-sories and EC rotating head Ro-toETscan whose reliability is well established worldwide.

Through its products and its remote assistance, CMS provides, all over the world, quality and productivi-ty solutions for industrial applica-tions.

Controle Mesure Systèmes

1, Chemin des Bruyères 71100 La Charmée, France

Tel.: +33 3 85 94 14 14

[email protected] www.cmseddyscan.com


DüsseldorfHall 06, Booth 6H39

Finishing line for small stainless steel tubes

Bültmann GmbH

Since the Austrian subsidiary of the Spanish parent company has, for several years now, successfully operated a Bültmann finishing line for small tubes, The American sub-sidiary Salem Tubes Inc. recently received similar equipment.

The complex finishing line is de-signed for the processing of stainless steel tubes and nickelbased tubes, diameter range 5 - 50 mm, wall thickness between 0,5 - 4,0 mm and a tube maximum length of 16 m.

A finished tube leaves the line at least every 10 seconds

The equipment mainly comprises the following processing units:

Positive material identification

Recognition of defects marked following ultrasonic testing

Eddy current testing with mark-ing of defects

Combined abrasive cutting and cold sawing unit for processing the tube ends and cutting the tubes to fixed lengths

Automatic defect saw, program-mable for maximum output

Unit for internal and external chamfering at both tube ends

Internal cleaning of tubes by blow-ing through and plug shooting

Measuring of effective tube length

Automatic capping of both tube ends

Marking of tubes with indication of effective lengths

Forming of hexagon tube bundles

The entire finishing line is designed for large and small batch sizes. Great importance was attached to extremely quick changeover times and unmanned operation.

The operation starts with automat-ic tube separation. The tubes are subject to several test procedures and then transported to a circular cold saw or an abrasive cutting unit. Both machines are equipped with a scrap evacuation system and a suction system. This is particular-ly important when materials which cannot be processed on a circular cold saw, are abrasively cut.

When the ends are cut off or the tubes are cut to fixed lengths, de-fective tubes are directed to the automatic defect saw; the other tubes are transported to the tube end processing equipment. Here the visual control is carried out, clean-ing of the tubes, length measuring, capping and marking. The finished tubes are now discharged into a belt cradle for forming into a round bun-

dle, packed as a hexagon bundle or loaded into a crate of local supply.

Sufficient buffer space on the en-try and exit side of the line ensures charging and discharging of tube bundles when production is running.

Our in-house-exhibition of last year attracted many visitors; sev-eral companies from all over the world submitted inquiries for these modern finishing lines.

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Bültmann GmbH

Hönnestraße 31 58809 Neuenrade Germany

Tel.: +49 2394 18-0 Fax: +49 2394 18-171

[email protected] www.bueltmann.com

Tube finishing line


DüsseldorfHall 05, Booth 5B21

DANIELI W+K Industrie Technik is a subsidiary company of the Ital-ian industrial group DANIELI & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA with headquarters in Buttrio near Triest. DANIELI supplies plants and equip-ment to the metal industry world-wide. DANIELI W+K Industrie Technik located in Dortmund completes DANIELI’s portfolio with the supply of complete pipe welding plants.

Recently DANIELI W+K has devel-oped a unique pipe OD measuring system used in spiral pipe mills and additionally, for ERW pipe welding lines, their own special pipe ID scarfer with integrated chip cutter. Both machines will be introduced during the upcoming TUBE exhibi-tion in Düsseldorf.

The pipe OD measuring system is employed directly downstream of the spiral forming unit and meas-ures the pipe OD and ovality con-tinuously during the spiral pipe production process. Continuous monitoring of production parame-ters serves for automatic line reset-ting which assures a constant high quality of the final product.

The unique feature of the new OD measuring unit is an integrated and automatically operating calibration system. This means that no extra calibration pipe has to be used for this procedure.

The new pipe OD measuring system is suitable for a max. spiral pipe OD of 120”, and can be either in-tegrated into new or existing lines, for either 1-step or 2-step produc-tion lines.

For ERW pipe welding lines, DAN-IELI W+K’s innovative inside scarf-ing unit with integrated chip cut-ter will be introduced as well. By means of a precise and long-life TC cutting ring, mounted onto an arm with copying rolls, the longitudinal internal weld bead is smoothly and precisely removed. The chip cut-ting device is an integral part of the inside scarfer, operating with an oscillating TC blade assembly. The unit is operated hydraulically. Sufficient cooling is provided by an integrated cooling system.

The new developments which will be introduced during the exhibi-tion will represent another major step achieved by DANIELI W+K in the welded pipe technology, com-pleting and expanding the ERW and spiral pipe sector to fulfill the market requirements from a single source.


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New DANIELI W+K pipe mill equipment from one source

DANIELI W+K Industrie Technik GmbH & Co. KG

Pipe OD measuring system for spiral pipe mills

Inside scarfer with integrated chip cutter for ERW pipe welding mills

W+K Industrie Technik GmbH & Co. KG

Hauert 12a 44227 Dortmund Germany

Tel.: +49 231 792211 0 Fax: +49 231 792211 9

[email protected] www.danieli-wk.de


DüsseldorfHall 07a, Booth F03

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From one source: DANIELI welded & seamless pipe mill solutions

Danieli Centro Tube and Danieli W+K

DANIELI Centro Tube (DCT) and DANIELI W+K (DWK) belong to the global team of the worldwide op-erating DANIELI & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA, Buttrio/Italy. Lo-cated in Milan/Italy and Dortmund/Germany, DCT and DWK are success-ful companies with long experience in the international tube and pipe plant business.Their product range covers solutions and equipment for the seamless and welded tube and pipe industry.

The core business of DCT and DWK covers a wide spectrum of servic-es, ranging from development, planning, design, to manufacture, assembly and commissioning of seamless pipe plants, spiral pipe plants as well as longitudinal ERW pipe welding plants. Individual pipe processing machinery, customized finishing lines for OCTG and other pipes applications applications and also turnkey deliveries complete DCT’s and DWK’s common portfolio.

DCT Line Spiral Pipe Mill ERW Tube Welding Line

Reason 1: Round TubesCOPRA® RF for Tubes provides the possibility to create and maintain any number of variants for round and rectangular tube mill projects. The individual variants are essen-tially independent projects within COPRA® RF, i.e. in each variant all functions of COPRA® like automat-ic dimensioning, assembly plan,

Inventor interface and FEA are available. Variants are required for an effective and comfortable ad-justment of a basic roll tooling for different wall thicknesses. For any of these variants the user has the possibility to adapt the basic roll tooling automatically or manually.

Reason 2: Cage FormingA cage forming system is a continuous forming process by groups (beams) of single simple rolls and additional sup-porting outer and inner roll tools. The major target is to save tooling cost and setup time as there is no need to exchange all the rolls.

COPRA® RF allows for a modeling of various types of straight edge forming systems due to its para-metric structure. The lineal beams are either predefined or - if there are single mounted rolls - each roll and respective position is defined in specific database tables .

While the flexibility of a cage forming mill is a big advantage this technol-ogy also has a “dark side”. The form-ing of the tube is nearly exclusively done by the cage rolls. This makes a permanent forming of the tube very difficult. A lot of the work needs to be done in the Fin Passes to com-pensate high spring back rates. With thin material the pressure against the strip edges may cause wrinkles along the edges so that welding is impossible. Well defined inner rolls that allow a controlled forming are essential in this case. The only pos-sibility to collect the necessary data is to conduct a FEA simulation.

The very first task before a FEA sim-ulation can be launched is to collect


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5 reasons why the COPRA® RF software for tubes is the perfect tool to save time and money

data M Sheet Metal Soltions GmbH

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all available data about the cage po-sition. It is extremely important that the setup in the simulation model is the same as in the machine. This is the base for a matching result. The major challenge in terms of cage forming is to define the correct po-sition in the line. If no design data are available it is quite difficult to extract the correct settings from the machine, but it is still possible. In this case the cage position can be defined in 3D in an easy way. The cage position will be extracted from the 3D model; the respective tables will be updated automatically.

Having the correct CAD model once means that the respective FEA model will be created automatically. There is no need for a cumbersome and time consuming conversion of the CAD data. This will all be done by the intelligent COPRA® interface. Usually the FEA simulation can be launched only a few minutes after the respec-tive CAD model was finished. Also for post processing COPRA® FEA RF supplies roll forming specific analy-sis tools – it is using the “language” of the roll former. The user does not have to be a FEA specialist to ana-lyze the simulation results.

Reason 3: Shaped TubesThe starting point for both, cali-brating to shaped tubes as well as drawing a tube through a drawing ring, is a round tube. The individual calibrating steps are calculated and optimized on the computer as a ba-sis for the following roll design. The

shown example was designed by CO-PRA® RF for shaped tubes, simulat-ed and verified with COPRA® FEA RF. Based on the simulation results the forming passes were optimized with COPRA® RF and produced on a respective tube mill.

Reason 4: Flexible TubesFlexible Tubes are made of profiles that are wound around the longitu-dinal axis of the tube and form-fit-ted with one another by their profile. Producing flexible tubes means a dual stress for the material because the sheet metal is first roll formed and then wound. A frequent problem in the winding process is the appear-ance of waviness on the profile edges.

For complex design processes of this kind data M offers tried and tested, thoroughly engineered solutions: COPRA® RF for design of the profile and tooling, and COPRA® FEA RF to simulate the roll forming operation and the winding process.

COPRA® FEA RF simulation imports the previously generated profile and tool data and calculates defor-mations appearing in the profile. Because simulation of the carcass winding process can include all information found about material deformation in the first step – roll forming the sheet metal – a pos-itive simulation result will mean that problems in subsequent prac-tical implementation are most probably eliminated.


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Reason 5: FEA Simulation with COPRA® FEA RFAs soon as the roll tool design data is ready, it can be directly import-ed from COPRA® RF into COPRA® FEA RF. This does not require any time-consuming pre-processing or difficult post-processing. It only takes seconds to create FEA mod-els. You can also import data from basic AutoCAD drawings or even from other roll form software.

data M Sheet Metal Solutions GmbH

Am Marschallfeld 17D-83626 Oberlaindern/Valley

Tel.: +49 8024 640 0Fax: +49 8024 640 300

[email protected]


DüsseldorfHall 06, Booth 6F19

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Global demand for crude oil is in-creasing at a phenomenal rate. Ac-cording to estimates published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the annual demand will reach over 16,000 megatons by 2030, compared to just 12,000 megatons required in 2010. As demand for modern oil delivery technology con-tinues to increase exponentially, a great opportunity presents itself for the oilfield technology sector. How-ever, as quantities of components increase, the focus is shifted to the production processes, where there is a need to both increase efficiency levels and cut costs, especially in the face of increasing competitive pressure from market newcomers, particularly from Asia. Success, in great part, depends on the machine tools used in the production of the oilfield technology components such as the machining of coupling sleeves. This relatively “small” item has an important role to play in crude oil and natural gas production and is manufactured in enormous quantities. EMAG Leipzig’s engineers

specialize in the production of such components, and with great success. Efficiency levels in the production of coupling sleeves can be raised con-siderably by using the EMAG VLC and VSC series of machines.

Although the coupling sleeve is a relatively small component, a great deal depends on its faultless performance. These sleeve or tool joints are used to precision-join the casings and delivery pipes with a perfect screw fit, providing an absolutely leak-proof and durable connection of the highest preci-sion while bearing the weight and considerable flexural stresses of the pipes. Production errors or large tolerances on the coupling sleeve can endanger the whole resource delivery process. With this in mind, the main focus is on efficient mass production techniques, with the key question being how an ex-tremely high quality of the produc-tion process for coupling sleeves can be guaranteed, especially when the job calls for a single production

facility to manufacture millions of these components each year?

An intelligent concept provides a competitive edgeThe specialists at EMAG Leipzig Maschinenfabrik provide a very precise answer to this question. The company has specialized in the machining of oilfield components – such as coupling sleeves, tool joints and rock bit cones, as well as casings and delivery pipes – for decades. But it is the production of coupling sleeves in particular that shows how demanding this sector can be, as it covers a multitude of processes from the actual thread-ing operation to the cleaning pro-cess and from visual inspections to the final plating operation. The component also features a marking that details the component data (i.e. charge, material, manufac-turer, machine, cycle time). This multi-layered production process benefits greatly from the intelli-gent EMAG machine concept, where process integrity and precision are as good as built-in.

The pick-up principle scores highlyCoupling sleeve production lines mainly use machines from the VSC and VLC series. They are equipped with a pick-up spindle that not on-ly collects the workpiece from the incoming conveyor belt, but firmly holds it vertically while it is com-plete-machined in the tooling zone. This is of particular advantage where large quantities of these sleeves are to be machined, as Dieter Fischer, Managing Director of EMAG Leipzig, explains: “The component can be

Oilfield technology components: high quantities of the highest quality

EMAG Leipzig Maschinenfabrik GmbH

The VSC 400 DUO CM Turning Machine with automation, as commonly used in the production of coupling sleeves.


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produced in a much shorter time, as the various processes are carried out one after the other in cycle times counted in seconds. These process-es do not only cover machining, but also additional operations such as cleaning or measuring.” When it comes to the mass production of coupling sleeves in particular, the time savings add up to a consider-able competitive advantage for the user, as shorter machine runtimes lead to a massive reduction in com-ponent costs.

High processing quality includedIn addition to the other advantages, the process chain also guarantees a consistently high component quali-ty. For one, all machining processes are fully automated, circumvent-ing errors that occur when using an unnecessarily large number of workhandling processes. The verti-cal machining concept also provides for optimal chip flow conditions, preventing the build-up of chips in the machining area, which can in-terrupt the production process.

Another important focus of the machine builders in Leipzig is the flexibility of their machines. The different frame sizes of the VSC and VLC series machines allow for the complete-machining of coupling sleeves of a multitude of diameters; the VSC 400 has a capacity of 2 3/8“ to 9 5/8” and the VLC 800 one of 7” to 24”. Furthermore, the machines are capable of cutting all types of threads, a factor of great impor-tance when it comes to the oilfield industry, as Mr. Fischer explains: “It is, of course, possible to machine coupling sleeves with threads to API and GOST standards, but propri-etary threads can also be generated. Larger oilfield technology producers have their own thread standards. We can equip our machines to perfectly suit these requirements.”

Market development opens up new opportunitiesThe machine builders in Leipzig view the future with great opti-mism. Already market leaders in machines for the threading of cou-pling sleeves and the machining of other oilfield technology compo-nents and given the dynamic de-velopment within the oil industry, there are new opportunities open-ing up, as Mr. Fischer points out: “When large sub-suppliers want to expand their production capac-ity, our technology is their first choice. The production processes are very compact, yet flexible and fast. Component costs are reduced. And we offer a global, all-in ser-vice. These are all advantages that, in our opinion, will be welcome in this market place.”

The automation system can be configured to suit customer requirements.

The vertical construction of the VSC 400 DUO CM and VSC 500 CM coupling sleeve machines ensures optimal chip flow with no build-up of chips to interrupt the production process.

EMAG Leipzig Maschinenfabrik GmbH

Pittlerstraße 26 04159 Leipzig Germany

Tel.: +49 341 46 66 0 Fax: +49 341 46 66 114

[email protected] www.emag.de


DüsseldorfHall 06, Booth 6C30


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Emerging countries are a thriving force of the actual world economy. Growth rates are based on social needs (basically infrastructures) and resources (which account for part of the capital needed for in-vestments). However, new enter-prises or technologically demand-ing projects find obstacles like

rates of interest in financing

know-how and skills of local workers

complexity of the technology

uncompleteness of equipment offered

Used equipment can, to some ex-tent, reduce the impact of the problems, as price is lower and ma-chines are less sophisticated. How-ever, there are still the demands of

reliability

product quality

safety & ergonomy

environmental care

EUROMAQUINA manages to match interests. The idea is to support projects to the extent the customer and project requires. Thus, very ba-sic machines sold to industrial areas

are normally offered “as is” or with a basic revamping. But, the other extreme is: a new enterprise in an area without skilled workers, with poor infrastructure, and bank inter-ests really high - based on local inflation and also and precisely on the premise of the problems men-tioned ahead. EUROMAQUINA offers support throughout the process of installing new and used machinery. First, in finding financing at source of equipment, at low interest rates, based also on our long good repu-tation. Then, an engineering team provides for all technical docu-ments and instructions needed to prepare the project: adapted lay-outs (not just the original ones), foundations (also adapted to local site) etc. Machines are revamped to the extent agreed with the custom-er, for example, based on the prem-ises of quickly available spares and easy use and maintenance without highly specialized workers. Exam-ples: a used straightener can be retrofitted to have all settings au-tomated, a flying saw can be retro-fitted with an actual control or the running direction can be changed.

Complements to the machines, like additional cradles or oil emulsion filter (www.filtra4.com), are engi-neered by EUROMAQUINA to con-figure a complete line. The Service Team can supervise installation and set-up. EUROMAQUINA now offers also a Coaching program for start of production or later review including Best Practices (mainte-nance, tool storage system, tool change, parameter setting, safety instructions etc.), with engineers with a vast experience in tube

Meeting demands and expectations of tube makers in emerging countries

EUROMAQUINA S.L.



Euromaquina Workshop and Revamping

Technical Office

Complementary Engineering: Emulsion Filtering Unit

EUROMAQUINA S.L.

Av. Pirineos 7 Nave 5A 28700 San Sebastián de los Reyes Madrid, Spain

Tel.: +34 658 820 830 [email protected] www.euromaquina.com

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manufacturing plants. This kind of assistance has a very quick return on investment, as the customer experiences a quick learning curve leading to increased quality and productivity.

Recent EUROMAQUINA milestones in this kind of “new comers’ pro-jects” (customer is new in tube manufacturing, area for placing machinery is “in the fields”) have been performed in Spain, Kenya, Angola, Brazil. An actual project in Canada is also run with this phi-losophy.

Complete equipment at Euromaquina, prior to test, delivery and installation

Civil works

UPCAST OY and ASMAG GmbH have joined

forces to supply

• Cast&Draw - a process delivering copper tube

• Cast&Form - a process delivering copper and

copper alloy busbar and profile

By combining their respective know-how and

expertise the two companies offer remarkable

savings to the copper tube and bus bar industry.

Visit us at

Tube Düsseldorf 2014

stand 6A02

www.asmag.at

Brian Lombardi - President In November, 2013, Rich Jeschelnig happily passed his legacy to Brian Lombardi who has been appointed as the new President & CEO of Fives Bronx, which is part of the Fives Group of companies headquartered in Paris France. Fives Bronx con-sists of Fives Bronx, Inc. located in North Canton OH and Fives Bronx, Ltd in West Midlands, England.

As President & CEO of Fives Bronx, Brian will continue to grow the company with a strong emphasis on creating value for the customer and a focus on product performance at the customer site. Brian will al-so utilize the synergistic business solutions of Fives supporting prod-ucts into expansion of full line of-ferings.

Brian points out that “our business is perfectly situated for growth in-to expanded offerings while con-tinuing the success we’ve enjoyed based upon putting the customer and their needs as our first prior-ity. “

Brian joined the organization, formerly operated as Bronx In-ternational, in May, 2002, as the Vice President of Procurement. Prior to joining the company, Bri-an obtained a strong background in engineering, procurement, and manufacturing in his previous po-sitions with PPG Industries and the Whirlpool Corporation. Brian holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Engineering from The Ohio State University and an MBA from Mar-quette University.

Dave MacNeill - Vice President of Sales & Marketing Joining Fives Bronx in the role of Vice President of Sales & Marketing is Dave MacNeill. Dave has worked selling, buying, and operating equipment in the tube and pipe in-dustry for more than 18 years. He is a professional engineer and his experience includes international sales, marketing and new product line development. Dave’s expecta-tion is to continue the great job Fives Bronx, Inc. has done supply-

ing innovative industrial equip-ment to the steel industry and to build on that work with broader integrated solutions. Dave holds a Bachelor’s of Applied Science in In-dustrial Systems Engineering from the University of Regina and at-tended the Moscow School of Man-agement Skolkovo.

“I am excited to be working with the talented people at Fives Bronx and to be bringing my experience to the Fives Group.” He continues “It’s a great time to be in this in-dustry and I am looking forward to working with customers to develop new and innovative ways to build production lines for today’s steel tube and pipe industry.”

Edward Dray - Vice President of Operations Edward Dray has been promoted to Vice President of Operations. In coordination with the President & CEO, Brian Lombardi, sales and our aftermarket services departments, he will be responsible for overall


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New Positions and New Employee.Fives Bronx

Brian Lombardi President

Dave MacNeill Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Edward Dray Vice President of Operations

Messe Düsseldorf GmbH

Postfach 10 10 06 _ 40001 Düsseldorf _ Germany

Tel. +49 (0)2 11/45 60-01 _ Fax +49 (0)2 11/45 60-6 68

www.messe-duesseldorf.de

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DüsseldorfHall 05, Booth 5J29

Fives Bronx 8817 Pleasantwood Ave NW North Canton, Ohio.

Tel.: +1 330-244-1960 Fax: +1 330-244-1961

www.fivesgroup.com [email protected]

project execution and maintaining customer rela-tionships. Ed’s background in engineering will help to effectively define new operating procedures and key process indicators to allow for a more stream-lined process flow. Ed holds a Bachelor’s of En-gineering Degree from Youngstown State Universi-ty. His focus has been on conceptual design for large OEM steel equipment where he has been for-tunate to gain a wealth of experience from several world leaders in capital equipment manufacturing. Through 23 years of professional growth, from CAD Detailer through Director of Engineering, and now Vice President of Operations, Ed has gained interna-tional business knowledge through technical sales support and negotiations with customers in several countries around the world.

“I plan to utilize the extensive product knowledge that I have gained over the last twelve years to im-prove our products and internal process to provide our customers with an overall enhanced experience. I want to strengthen the internal processes, as well as, the great relationships that we have formed with our customers and vendors throughout the years.”

Especially German and British com-panies have bought or become the shareholders of some important in-ternational events Organizer Com-panies in Turkey.

Expo Turco was founded 3 years ago as a subsidiary company of Fuar Dizayn Ltd. which has been in the field for more than 20 years as one of the largest Stand Design and Construction companies in Turkey.

Expo Turco has been giving ser-vices about Stand Design, Stand Construction, Digital Printings, Ex-tra Furniture, Hotel reservations, Hostess & Interpreter for only in-ternational exhibitors throughout Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, UAE.

The company has its own offices and Production Factories in Istan-bul, Moscow, Kiev, Baku and Dubai with local employers and produc-tion teams.

It is always reliable on prompt and of course cost-effective execu-

tion for the best European quality standards. From the idea to the first design drafts and through to com-pletion, the agency will provide a personal contact person familiar with the client’s requirements.

The exhibitor companies, who are taking “Stand Construction Servic-es” from Expo Turco through their local offices and factories in each country, are taking the advantages of reasonable costs.

Expo Turco has a very frankly ap-proach for international exhibitors with the below slogan;

There is always solution for every budget with an optimum quality…!

Here is a sample of Stand Design and its real built appearance.


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Exhibition sector has been growing up very fast in Turkey

ExpoTurco

ExpoTurco

Kelesoglu Plaza Katz, No 44, Beylikduzu 34520 Istanbul Turkey

Tel.: +90 212 422 30 63 [email protected] www.expoturco.com

Above and right: Samples of booth of booth designs and it’s real built appearances


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A purchase order was signed for the manufacturing of a heavy duty diesel canning cell

Fontijne Formitt, Inc.

Fontijne Formitt, Inc., announced a major order to supply a Heavy Duty Diesel Canning line to be designed and manufactured in Niles, Mich-igan. And Fontijne Formitt, Inc., recently announced its selection of Niles, Michigan as its’ permanent home. The announcement was made during a press event held at the fac-tory with multiple agencies from the state of Michigan that helped make the selection possible.

“We are very proud that our team was able to select Michigan” said Mr. Mike Walker Vice President of Fonti-jne Formitt Inc, Fontijne Grotnes Group purchased specific intellec-tual property from the former Hess Industries. Walker continued by saying “the announcement of a ma-jor order in such a short period of time allows us to introduce our new company name Fontijne Formitt and shows that our customers appreci-ate having access to our patented technology. We are looking forward to the future and are determined to provide the market with high quality products and service”

The purchase order was placed by a leading emission component manu-facturer located in the United States, and will supply components to allow commercial trucks to meet the new strict diesel emissions regulations.

Equipment heavy duty diesel canning cellFontijne Formitt will utilize it’s patented AGC system to measure the stack-up of tolerances of the substrate (catalyst) and mat, and can provide ‘feed forward’ data for subsequent sizing. The substrate and mat can then be assembled

manually or placed in the automatic wrapping station for assembly with further sizing required to compress the shell and permanently hold the substrate in place. The Fontijne Formitt AGC system provides the most advanced system available for “adaptive sizing”, which allows optimized holding force for each individual substrate.

A patented Fontijne Formitt Rotary Sizer is also used to reduce the di-ameter of the shell before or after insertion of the substrate. The ro-tary sizer method reduces the shell diameter ‘Spring Back” normally found with other shell reduction methods. The Rotary Sizer has the ability to automatically adjust the reduction along the tube length on the fly, allowing for diameter changes for application requiring two or more substrates.

With the ever increasing require-ments to improve time of service, the patented AGC and Rotary Siz-ing equipment provides the indus-try with the only in-line process gauging system. For more infor-mation on this technology for Die-sel or Gas engines please contact Fontijne Formitt at 269-262-4984 or visit their website: http://www.fontijneformitt.com.

About The Fontijne Grotnes GroupThe Fontijne Grotnes Group is one of the world’s leading suppliers of innovative processes, manufactur-ing equipment and related services.

The Fontijne Grotnes Group embodies a proud legacy of craftsmanship and service built on more than 100 years

of experience in multiple industries.

The group comprises four different brands, which represent the most advanced equipment in their in-dustries

Fontijne Grotnes: Processes for the metalforming, nuclear, wheel and pipe industry

Fontijne Ghyselinck: (semi) au-tomatic tire and wheel assem-bly lines

Fontijne Formitt: Canning & Spinning technologies

Fontijne Presses: Laboratory Platen Presses for the polymer processing, rubber and compos-ites industry

The group of companies is head-quartered in the Netherlands with regional sales, service, and manu-facturing facilities in Buffalo Grove (Illinois USA) and Niles (Michigan USA). Additionally regional sales offices are located in China, Russia, India and Japan and we collaborate with an extensive network of pro-fessional agents across the world.

Commercial Vehicle Canning Cell

Over the years Fontijne Grotnes has developed into a specialist in the design and manufacturing of Full Length Pipe Expanders for the pipe industry. The Expander guarantees a constant, reproducible process regarding diameter, straightness and mechanical properties.

Fontijne Grotnes is constantly im-proving the Full Length Pipe Ex-pander for new market demands, like higher outputs, increased wall thickness’, higher material grades

up to X120, stricter out of round-ness and straightness tolerances.

Recently Fontijne Grotnes imple-mented several product improve-ments to fulfill new market- and product demands:

Dedicated Expander HeadsWhen size or quantities matters Fontijne Grotnes can develop a dedicated expander head, for op-timizing production possibilities in wall thickness, material grade, or production quantity of LSAW pipes.

As example the special design of the expander head can result in in-creased radial force and optimized surface area between cone and jaw configuration in order to accept pipes with increased wall thickness. For one customer Fontijne Grotnes designed an Expander Head capable of expanding 18’’ pipe with a wall thickness of 32mm for X70 grade.

New Expander Head- and Die Handling FixturesFontijne Grotnes has improved its head- and die handling fixtures to respond to customer demands. This latest development is more main-tenance friendly and will improve changeover time significantly! The quick tool change system creates a defined position of the centre line of the Expander Head and controls the Expander Head rotation.

With this quick tool change system a changeover time reduction of 40% can be achieved. There is also modification set available for exist-ing Fontijne Grotnes customers.

Optimizing Cost of OwnershipBecause of increasing global compe-tition and economic pressures, the

total cost of ownership of the man-ufacturing process is an important aspect in the purchasing process.

With the use of the Fontijne Grotnes’ Pipe Expander savings can not only be achieved on lubricants and oil during the expanding pro-cess, but also on energy:

The consumption of Expander Oil is kept to a minimum, by us-ing an optimized expander head lubrication system in combina-tion with a sophisticated head design. The system only uses 0.5 – 1.5 liter per (12 meter) pipe; the lowest oil consump-tion in the market! This results in saving more than 125,000 liter per year compared to com-petitive processes at a produc-tion rate of 500,000 t/yr.

The expander head is well pro-tected against dirt by seal ar-rangement. Washing of the ex-pander head after each cycle is not required.


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Fontijne Grotnes B.V.

Industrieweg 21 3133 EE Vlaardingen Netherlands

Tel.: +3110434 8233 Fax: +3110435 2655

[email protected]

New market demands for full length pipe expander

Fontijne Grotnes B.V.


DüsseldorfHall 05, Booth 5J13

Quick tool change system for expander head and tooling

A Full Length Pipe Expander is an essential part of the production process in a pipe mill


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At some point, even the most mod-ern technology will be outdated. This fact is not only clear to com-puter experts but also to machine operators. Those who want to equip their aged machines for pipe pro-duction with the latest technology turn to Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co. KG as reliable partner. During the exhibition TUBE in Düs-seldorf, the special machine build-er will show that state-of-the-art technology is not only limited to new machines but can also be im-plemented into existing machines. This technology will be presented at the joint booth D30 in hall 6 by the companies Gräbener Maschi-nentechnik and Reika GmbH & Co. KG, both affiliates within the Grae-bener Group.

Gräbener already has retrofitted a number of pipe forming presses, plate edge milling machines, roll bending machines, circ and long seam milling machines as well as hydroforming presses. For years, retrofitting jobs for machines (event those of other manufactur-ers) have been the top sellers and most sought after services of the company Gräbener.

Gräbener Maschinentechnik will of course also present the latest de-velopments in the sector of new machines for the production of large pipes: 13 meter and 18 me-ter pipe forming presses, pre- and post-bending presses, continuous root tacking machines, impanding and straightening presses as well as

special most powerful 3- and 4-roll bending machines. In the field of milling technology, the global market leader will also provide in-depth information on circ and long seam milling machines as well as on plate edge milling machines.

Finally, the number of exhibits will also show the technology in the sector of hot stamping and hydr-oforming. Here, Gräbener Maschi-nentechnik, as manufacturer of customized machinery, offers the entire value added chain of the hydroforming technology from one source: from feasibility studies, prototyping and small series pro-duction to most complex turnkey solutions.

Gräbener Maschinentechnik presents state-of-the-art technology for new machines and retrofits at the TUBE

Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co. KG

Graebener’s floor-mounted seam milling machine is inquired more and more. Detailed information at TUBE exhibition at booth D30 in hall 6.



Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co. KG Am Heller 1 57250 Netphen Germany

Tel.: +49 273 79 89 120 Fax: +49 273 79 89 110

graebmasch@ graeberner-group.comwww.graebener-group.com


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In 2013 HARVE-INITECH commis-sioned the most advanced pipe coating plant supplied to a Top Global Pipe producer for their plant in India. This is a 600 sq.mts/hr Ex-ternal 3 Layer PE coating plant and 500 sq.mts /hr Internal Epoxy Coat-ing Plant. It can handle 16” to 64” dia and pipes upto 18 meters long. The plant is with the most advanced automation systems for pipe han-dling. All cross transport is handled by Pipe Indexer trolleys which oper-ate in Full Automode. This reduces the labour drastically.

The External Coating Line comprises of Pipe Inlet handling, Pre-washing, Pre-heater, Shot Blaster, Inspec-tion Station, Phosphoric Acid wash, Chromating and High pressure wa-ter wash and then High capacity in-duction Heaters, Twin Epoxy Coating Booth so that both FBE as well as DFBE Coating can be accomplished. High capacity Adhesive and Twin PE Extruders with capacity of 3400 kg/hr and with weld seam applicator. The Plant has a twin sets of high perfor-mance end brushing and cut-back system, which use a combination

of a special tool and a high perfor-mance brushes to clean the pipe ends with high throughput. A special additional brush is provided to clean the Bevel.

The internal coating comprises of special hot air recirculating type pre-heating system, followed by high performance twin shot blast-ers, liquid epoxy coater which can handle both solvent based as well as solvent-free epoxy and the rota-tors and curing system.

The complete plant is supplied on Turnkey basis. We have supplied more than 14 such complete plants in last 4 years to customers in India, USA, Saudi Arabia, Europe and Korea

Harve-Initech has also designed the coating plants such that one can have external 3 layer PE / FBE/ DF-BE coating + internal liquid epoxy coating and also internal FBE Coat-ing in a single plant. Pipe sizes starting from 2” and upto 144” and pipe lengths upto 24 meters for all kinds of pipes, Seamless, ERW, Spi-ral SAW and Longitudinal SAW.

High capacity fully automated External 3 PE Coating and Internal Epoxy Coating Plant.

Harve Tube Tekniqs Pvt.Ltd.

Harve Tube Tekniqs Pvt.Ltd.

New Link Road, Malad (W) Mumbai - 400 064 India

Tel.: +91 22 2880 5161

[email protected]


DüsseldorfHall 7a, Booth 7aF15

Overview of pipe coating line


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Major automotive aluminum parts supplier requires an integrated multi-function machine for pre-hy-droform tube machining, inspec-tion, and identification.

Solution: Haven’s ability to adapt to similar applications has been demonstrated through the creative design and manufacture of a custom machine that meets the customer’s stringent automotive industry spec-ifications. This multi-attribute ma-chine has seven (7) stations work-ing simultaneously to complete a finished tube every five (5) seconds. The sequence of operation is: dou-ble end-finishing (I.D., O.D. chamfer and end face), chip removal, overall length measuring, diameter confir-mation, wall thickness verification, straightness inspection, and full length laser stenciling. A complex program monitors the results of each operation and accepts or rejects a part based on extremely tight tol-erance specifications. A walking beam style transfer system ensures a smooth and complete progression of parts through the machine. Precision ground linear support and servo mo-tion control allows for minimal setup time and a statistically repeatable performance. Laser sensor technol-ogy gives this machine the highest level of accuracy and repeatability to ensure zero defects reach the final product. And finally, the Ethernet op-erating system allows for integration with the existing plant data collec-tion system. The Haven system will download part recipes and part iden-tification and upload measurement

data and part identification to the customer’s data concentrator.

Results: This machine meets and exceeds the high expectations of this automotive supplier. Haven understands the stringent require-ments that the automotive industry

demands and has the knowledge, flexibility, and design experience to produce the desired solution.

Multiple station end finishing and inspection machine for aluminum automotive frame components

Haven Manufacturing Corp.

Haven Manufacturing Corp.

370 Sterling Industrial Park GA 31525-3938, Brunswick USA

Tel.: ++1912265 7536 Fax: +1912264 9001

[email protected]


DüsseldorfHall 04, Booth 4C10-04


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Following this year’s S.O.C. approv-al, Interpipe continues its develop-ment in Iraq with comprehensive collaboration with the Ministry of Oil in the Republic of Iraq. One of the steps of such partnership was the organization of a conference for more than 100 representatives of the Ministry of Oil and the larg-est state oil and gas companies.

Anatolii Marynets, the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Iraq, supported the conference, empha-sizing that further development of cooperation between Ukraini-an and Iraqi companies will have a positive impact on prospects of business relations between our countries.

During the visit, a number of key meetings were held with Acting Iraqi Oil Minister Mr. Hassan Fayad Nima and his deputies, as well as the management team of several oil and gas companies, where im-portantly Iraqi officials expressed strong interest in Interpipe as one of the approved suppliers of tubu-lar products for the state oil com-panies.

Interpipe reaches a new milestone in Iraq

Interpipe Ukraine Ltd.

Interpipe conference for the representatives of the Ministry of Oil and the largest state oil and gas companies

Meeting with Acting Iraqi Oil Minister Mr. Hassan Fayad Nima and his deputies

Interpipe team have held a series of meetings with South Oil Company man-agement team, S.O.C key contractors and other players in the Southern Iraq oil market.

Interpipe has begun producing a new product – big diameter seam-less pipes according to GOST and EN standards. The big diameter pipes are developed at Interpipe NTRP, where the previous maximum mill range was limited to 377 mm.

In October 2012 the experimental pipes of 426 mm in diameter with 10 mm wall thickness were pro-duced for Belorussian consumers. In January 2013 there has been one more break-through, a new di-mension size of 406.4 mm in diam-eter with wall thickness of 50 and 68 mm made according to GOST standard for the 32XA steel grade. These were developed for Polish consumers. And finally in the 3rd quarter of 2013 Interpipe produced and delivered to German consum-ers pipes of 406.4 mm in diameter with 10 – 70 mm wall thickness in accordance with European stand-ards EN 10210-1,2 and EN 10297-1 in steel grades S355J2H/E355.

Ivan Mazanka, Regional Sales Di-rector for Europe at Interpipe, said: “The big diameter seamless pipes are currently in high demand glob-ally; however, the number of sup-pliers for these products is limited. For this reason manufacturing of pipes 406.4 mm and 426 mm in di-ameter according to euro-standards is a very good opportunity for us to meet these needs by delivering high quality products in accord-ance with our European customers’ requirements.

Interpipe is a vertically integrated steel pipe and railway wheel com-pany. It is among the ten largest producers of pipe products and the

third largest producer of railway wheels in the world. The company’s products are supplied to more than 80 countries all over the world through a chain of commercial of-fices located in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Europe, the USA and the Middle East.

In 2012 the company’s mills pro-duced about 1.26 mln tons of pipe and wheel products. Annual reve-nue from sales in 2012 amounted to $USD2 billion.

Interpipe Steel is a key investment project for Interpipe that will pro-vide the company’s steel and pipe production units with their own billets. The new plant’s capaci-ty will be 1,320,000 tons a year, which will make it the largest mill in Eastern Europe. Total investment in the project amounts to $USD 700 million.


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Interpipe Ukraine Ltd

1A Pisarzhevskogo Str.49600 DnepropetrovskUkraineTel.: +380 562 389 643 Fax: +380 562 389 482

[email protected]


DüsseldorfHall 07.1

Booth 7.1D07 + D08

Andrey Burtsev, Interpipe Middle East regional sales director, said: “Iraq is amongst the leading oil producers in the world. As such there is increasing demand for OCTG pipes, as well as pipes for pipelines. Successful cooperation with the Ministry of Oil and state oil companies in the Republic of Iraq are yet another milestone for Interpipe in its plans to build a stronger presence in the country”.

Interpipe also took part in the “4th Basra Oil and Gas exhibition and conference”, where a series of meetings were held with South Oil Company, S.O.C key contractors and other players in the Southern Iraq oil market.

Interpipe develops big diameter seamless pipes

Interpipe Ukraine Ltd

Andrey Burtsev, Interpipe Middle East regional sales director with Anatolii Maryvnets, the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Iraq

International Technical for Metal Industries Company Ltd (ITC) was founded in 2011, and for Imple-mentation of this gool has 260,000 square meters in the AL-MUQAR In-dustrial Estate –Jordan.

ITC to consist of: 1- Steel tubes and pipes factory.

2- Galvanized pipes factory.

Objectives of the ITC:a- Produce steel black pipes, tubes, poles, suctions, for industrial us-age, and like raw materila for gal-vanizing unit (second factory).

b- Produce galvanizing pipes for water and gas, galvanized electri-cal towers, galvanizing sections and containers.

For achievement this objectives ITC managment to make contracts with many companies to supply produc-tion lines to produce above – men-tioned items.

Production lines: 1 Slitting lines Qty. (5 lines) for

Slit steel coils with different widths.

2 Cold Rolling machines Qty (3 lines) to reduce thickness steel coils.

3 Tube lines Qty (7 lines) to pro-duce steel pipes, tubes & sec-tions.

4 Straightening machines Qty (4 lines) to straightening out poles.

5 Facing machines Qty (3 lines) to cleaning ends of poles.

6 Hydrotesting machines Qty (3 lines) to testing water and gas pipes with pressure 60 Bar.

7 Galvanizing unit with all acces-sories.

ITC management to make contract with one of the best in China, to produce the biggest unit in our ar-ea, with kettle length 15 meters for galvanizing pipes and steel suctions and electrical poles and towers.

8 Water treatment Qty (1) to fil-tration our out industrial water and reused again in our produc-tion.

9 Compressor Air Qty (8).

10 Boiler for steam Qty (1).

11 Grinding machines Qty (2).

12 Lathing machines Qty (3).

13 Saw blade machines Qty (2).

14 Scrap press Qty (1).

15 Cranes.

16 Flat carriages.


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Al-Far Group

P.O.Box 674 11592 Jordan Jordan

Tel.: 00962-64165290 Fax: 00962-64165295

[email protected]

260,000 square meters in the AL-MUQAR Industrial Estate –Jordan

Al-Far Group

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Controlled heat treatment: smart, robust and completely model-based

KBD Engineering GmbH

KBD Engineering GmbH is a spe-cialist for design, development and manufacturing of automated equipment and special machines for thermal treatment systems and ancillary equipment for in-ductive heat treatment of metallic components, since 2003. To make heat-treatment processes as effi-cient as possible and the achieved product quality as high as possible, modern control technology, i.e. model-predictive control (MPC), is required. Decisive advantages are precise parameterizations of set-up processes, such as temperature tra-jectory and air/water distribution, and the possibility to immediately detect and control online any de-viation of product-quality charac-teristics along the whole length of the processed piece. KBD MPC technology, developed in coopera-tion with ASINCO GmbH – a spe-cialist for design and development of advanced control solutions for industrial control – continuously assesses the current and predicted process behavior, compares opera-tional data to their desired values,

and computes new control targets to minimize in-process variability and maximize process performance and efficiency.

KBD Engineering believes that it pays to continually develop and apply new technologies and solu-tions that deliver more precise con-trol of long product features and thus contribute to higher product quality, productivity and resource efficiency. Also, KBD is committed to supply user-friendly and flexi-ble automation solutions for heat

treatment plants. MPC-based solu-tions require accurate modeling of the process, to be able to precisely predict its future behavior. KBD MPC technology is completely based on fundamental, i.e. physical, models in combination with data-based adaptive techniques, to ensure accurate predictions. The model, included as integrated part of the control structure, enables MPC to respond quickly to changing pro-cess targets and disturbances for the full spectrum of the processed products. The basic principle of

Basic Structure of Dynamic MPC

Finishing Floor Solutions for Global Customers

Pipe mills around the world rely on the expertise of Brandt Engineered Products for their finishing floor solutions. The design and production of hydrotesters, pipe handling systems and processing equipment combined with the experience and knowledge of a team of specialists that understand plant efficiency will provide a custom solution for your operation. That’s Powerful Value. Delivered.

Finishing FloorSolutions

brandt.ca +1-306-791-7557

See us at Tube 2014 in Dusseldorf April 7 – 11, 2014, Booth Hall 05 Stand 5G15


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KBD MPC Solution for Optimal Quench-ing

MPC is to predict the system out-put over a time horizon based on past and current values and on pro-posed optimum future control ac-tions. These actions are calculated by the optimizer while taking into account the cost function (control performance metric), in which re-spect the future tracking error as well as the constraints are consid-ered. The optimization problem is solved at every sampling instant. Depending on the concrete process structure and control problem, ad-ditional algorithms to adapt the model parameter are used, leading to a robust MPC system.

In today’s customer-driven envi-ronments, manufacturers are in-creasing product portfolios and embracing mass customization. As a result, suppliers are faced with more product transitions and in-process variability that should be handled by the control system. Unlike conventional solutions, KBD Engineering offers dynamic MPC technology that

Includes dynamic and steady-state optimization;

Takes into account the multivar-iable nature of the heat-treat-ment processes, with large time constants and substantial time delays;

Explicitly incorporates con-straints at every sampling in-stant, including hard limits, soft or “fuzzy” constraints, de-sired value targets, maximiza-tion or minimization of select-ed variables and rate of change constraints;

Estimates and visualizes non-measured variables, such as inter-stage temperature dis-tributions (“soft-sensors”);

Provides the operator with a reliable algorithm, enabling transparent online tuning by displaying the future outputs predicted by the internal model;

Guarantees consistent product quality over the whole length of each processed piece, for in-stance, in terms of homogenei-ty in temperature and mechani-cal properties;

By opting for KBD Engineering heat-treatment and MPC solutions, manufacturers can benefit from high-precision quality control, re-sulting in competitive advantag-es, such as faster start-up, less down-time and lower maintenance requirements, higher productivity and efficiency.

KBD Engineering GmbH

Theodor-Heuss-Str. 60-66 D-51149 Köln Germany

Tel.: 49 2203 18 36 90-0 Fax: +49 2203 99 78 95

[email protected] www.kbd-engineering.de




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LAZZARI S.p.A.

Via A.Volta, 324036 Ponte San Pietro/BG Italy

Tel.: +39 035 611 316Fax: +39 035 612 402

[email protected]

The economic sawing of tubes con-tinues to be important for the tube industry. To meet these require-ments there is a need to develop new technologies and solutions for increasing the performance of the machines and in the same time to lower the cost per cut.

LAZZARI has improved the design and technical features of its high productivity sawing machines series for meeting these requirements.

LAZZARI optimized in the new saw-ing machine TL – series generation: The design of the sawing machines, such as the machine bed and struc-ture to resist the high loads have been redesigned and also the clamping system to clamp in front of and behind the saw blade was renewed. The controlled position and pressure eliminate the vibra-tion of the tubes during the cutting operation.

The heavy duty guides for the saw-ing head will guarantee a maximum stiffness and the oversized dimen-sioned gear box with a special sys-tem to compensate completely and automatically the backlash is giv-ing a perfect performance.

The dumping devices for giving guidance to the saw blade and for decreasing vibrations have got a dif-ferent dimension and this will give a smooth and straight cutting surface and a longer tool life time. An extra cooling of the saw blades has been installed and it makes sure that also hot tubes up to 200 degrees Celsius and more can be processed.

By increasing of the saw blade diam-eter up to a 2400mm it is now pos-

sible to have a larger width of the layer than usual and consequently the output will be increased. We have developed sawing tools with a reduced cutting width so that we produce less chips and we are hav-ing a remarkable reduction of the energy consumption – that means a big cost reduction over the years. Above a short cut-off time, the ma-chines produce a sellable cut with nearly no burr.

The additional external clamping devices guarantee a perfect clamp-ing of the tube layer and so we avoid in any case crossed over pipes and the layer itself is more stable.

The LAZZARI operation control is to the state of the art; it is very flexible and meets all the specific requirements of the customer, such

as error diagnostic, visualization of the actual moving cycle of the machine on screen, cutting param-eters, blade recording and cutting optimization, tele maintenance, etcetera.

Lazzari heavy duty sawing machine for cutting steel pipes in layer

LAZZARI S.p.A.

Heavy duty sawing machine for cutting steel pipes in layer




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MC3 - a revolutionary new devel-opmentThe stationary tube cut-off ma-chines Multi Cut (MC3) is a new Linsinger development that revolu-tionises tube cutting with diameters between 150 and 660 mm. Instead of one large saw blade, it has three smaller circular saws attached to a radial rotating disc and gives a clean ready-to-sell cut. Much short-er cycle times result from the simul-taneous intervention of all three saws in the tube and subsequent rotation by 120°; the actual cutting time for a P110 steel tube in the size 244 x 13.5 mm is therefore a sensational eight seconds. Another decisive advantage: if one of the saws fails, the machine can con-tinue processing with slightly less power but without interruption up until scheduled replacement of the saw blades. This avoids expensive production stoppages.

Minimum tool costs with dispos-able saw bladesJust like the speed, the efficiency of the MC3 is unrivalled due to several reasons: in contrast to the large and therefore expensive blades in con-ventional steel circular saws, much smaller and correspondingly less ex-pensive disposable saw blades can be used in the Multi Cut machine. Together with the construction-re-lated higher life time of smaller saw blades, this is a massive reduction in tool costs, which are often higher than the cost of the actual machine for circular saws that are often used for more than 20 years. Beyond that the thin cutting width saves a lot of material.

Fully automatic tool change: pit stop in record timeLast but not least, the MC3 im-presses with the fully automatic tool change performed by a robot as soon as a certain number of cuts

has been achieved. It changes all three saw blades in just 90 seconds - this would be a pit stop in record time in Formula One. In relation to a twenty-year life cycle of the ma-chine, the time savings achieved corresponds with more than half a year in three shift operation.

Multi Cut is more cost efficient than any other system“The MC3 is not only the measure with all things in precision but also in the efficiency of the ma-chine. The extra cost in compari-son to conventional saws amortises within two to three years”. This is how the Linsinger company man-ager Hans Knoll summarises the number of advantages, which also convinced several customers. And not only them: “The benefits of our Multi Cut system have also already been recognised in China. We are expecting a run on this new ma-chine type from the local industry,” explains Asian sales manager Jo-hann Wolfschwenger.

LINSINGER Maschinenbau Gesellschaft m.b.H

Dr. Linsinger-Strasse 24 4662 Steyrermühl Austria

Tel.: +43 7613 8840 Fax: +43 7613 8840-951

[email protected] www.linsinger.com

Top Technology from Austria Multi-Cut Tube Cut-off machine, Type MC3

LINSINGER Maschinenbau Gesellschaft m.b.H.

Multi-Cut MC3-406 in operation in Brazil


DüsseldorfHall 6, Booth 6K20


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Novel and intelligent solutions as well as cost efficient solutions for in-line measurement and control of tubes, pipes and profiles

ZUMBACH Electronic AG

ZUMBACH – Swiss Prime Measuring since 1957 - will join the interna-tional trade fair for tube products TUBE 2014 in Dusseldorf. Novel and intelligent solutions as well as cost efficient solutions for in-line meas-urement and control of tubes, pipes and profiles are going to be the fo-cus of Zumbach’s exhibition booth.

Excerpt of the novelties:STEELMASTER SMR Gauges - New Rotating Gauges for High Speed Di-mension Measurement in Hot Roll-ing Mills.

These new gauges feature, among others, a revolutionary new sys-tem for fully contactless power and signal transmission from the laser heads. Additionally they offer novel and significant advantages over other gauges, when it comes to fast and accurate capture of di-mensions in longitudinal and radial direction. The maintenance for SMR gauges is close-to-zero.

The mechanical concept is ex-tremely simple and robust; no wear parts, no collector rings, no brakes, etc.

Depending the application and the customer needs, static STEELMASTER SMS or oscillating SMO are also available

PROFILEMASTER® - New In-line Profile Gauge for Hot Rolling Mills.

In addition to the existing line of profile gauges for cold steel and metal profiles, Zumbach exhibits this new version for hot applica-tions. The gauges are based on tri-

angulation by camera vision, often also called light cut principle. Mod-els are available for any hot rolled profile up to 500 mm (edge length) and with up to 8 measuring points (measuring units). All models are also available for cold applications.

ECOGAUGE Systems - New Com-pact and Low Cost Diameter/Width Gauges for Hot and Cold Processes.

On show will be one of the new up-graded ECOGAUGE systems of sin-gle axis gauges. With new models, ECOGAUGE 160 and 550, the range of applications have been extended to a diameter of 500mm (20inch).

Typical solutions are between roll-ing stands for bar or for strips or in conveyors, after hot extrusions, after radial forges or in peeling and grinding operations. Mounting is very flexible and possible in hori-zontal, in vertical or any orienta-tion.

Left: PROFILEMASTER® SPS 300-S4 Right: STEELMASTER Rotating SMR Gauge


DüsseldorfHall 05, Booth E17

ZUMBACH Electronic AG

P.O. Box , CH-2552 Orpund Tel.: +41 (0)32 356 04 00 Fax: +41 (0)32 356 04 30

ZUMBACH Electronic AG www.zumbach.com

Meta Vision Systems, the leading UK manufacturer of laser guidance systems for automating arc welding, celebrates thirty years of Welding with Vision at the TUBE 2014 ex-hibition. Meta was a spin-out from Oxford University in 1984, following a successful research project to de-velop a laser vision system for re-al-time control of robot welding.

The international show, featur-ing machinery and accessories for manufacturing and processing of tubes and pipes, will take place in Düsseldorf from 7th – 11th April. Meta will take its largest stand ev-er, 6B39, and will stage several live demonstrations of new products being launched.

In addition to remaining active in robot welding, the firm has de-veloped considerable expertise in many different tube and pipe ap-plications over the past thirty years and is now generally considered to be one of the leading suppliers of vision and control systems for the tube and pipe industry worldwide.

Within an overall theme of applied innovation, Meta’s stand will show a completely new pipe measurement system. With increasing demands for traceable measurement data from pipe buyers, the manufacturer has harnessed its proven experience in pipe bevel measurement and pipe inspection to develop a suite of new pipe measurement products. They represent a major expansion in the company’s activity in the sector and will be on show for the first time in Düsseldorf.

Meta’s recent developments in lon-gitudinal pipe mills will be high-lighted in partnership with Hyundai RB, which has built a new longi-tudinal pipe mill in Ulsan, Korea, using Meta systems at every stage of the pipe welding process. They are used to control tack welding, ID welding, OD weld joint milling and OD welding. The result is a pipe mill with advanced automa-tion throughout, combining excel-lent productivity and high quality.


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META celebrates 30th anniversary at TUBE 2014Meta Vision Systems Ltd.

ID welding on a longitudinal pipe mill with Meta laser sensor.

Milling control by Meta laser sensor with anti-vibration mounting.

In the spiral pipe sector, Meta will be premiering a new video giving an in depth review of Meta’s new spiral mill control system. This includes mill control, welding control, laser vision and video monitoring, all within a single integrated and net-worked control system. As a result of Meta’s attention to detail during the design phase, the latest mill control installation was quick and painless for all concerned, enabling the mill operator to start making high quality production pipes in a shorter time than ever before.

Meta looks forward to welcoming its many tube and pipe customers from

all over the world to its stand and showing them the latest develop-ments.

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Meta Vision Systems Ltd

Oakfield HouseOkfield Industrial Estate, EynshamOxfordshire OX29 4TH, UK

Tel.: +44 1865 887900 Fax: +44 1865 887901

[email protected] www.meta-mvs.com


DüsseldorfHall 06, Booth 6B39 Spiral pipe mill with Meta laser sensor


Recently Olimpia 80 has success-fully commissioned in Turkey a LINEAR CAGE FORMING tube mill destined to produce Square and Rectangular tube sections in car-bon steel material.

That line can produce square sec-tions from 30x30 up to 80x80 mm and rectangular sections from 60x30 mm to 110x40 mm sections, in a thickness range from 1 mm to 6 mm, with max speed 120 m/min.

It is a good results of a commercial politics regarding the new technol-ogy proposed on the market some years ago. Finally the market is ready to consider the advantage of the Linear Cage Forming technolo-gy instead of the traditional one.

With this composition, the mill can produce all the square and rectan-gular tubes within the size range, without changing any roll in Form-ing, Welding, Sizing, Straightening and Cutting sections; average time of changing tube dimensions is approx. 15 minutes.

The main characteristics of this technology are:

Simplicity and rapidity in changing diameter.

Very simple and easy mainte-nance.

Simplicity in the software utili-zation.

With this innovative solution, the mill allows to produce both square and rectangular tubes by means of a computerized con-trol able to save the production data in recipes that can be very simply recalled.

Olimpia 80 has successfully commissioned a Linear Cage Forming tube mill in Turkey

Olimpia 80 S.r.l.

Above and below: linear cage forming tube mill for square and rectangular tubes

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Olimpia 80 S.r.l.

Lo.Cà Verde 29011 Borgonovo V.T. (PC) Italy

Tel.: +39 0523 862 614

[email protected]



It is possible to create particu-lar “shape” with different an-gles. From the PC it is possible to see the “tube flower” of the tube you want to produce.

Tube OD changing time for the Forming section: about 3 - 5 minutes.

All the axis are controlled by hydraulic motors with encoder, and the strip feeding is provid-ed by vectorial motor with in-verter (closed loop).

We have some others pending or-der for similar line for Round and Sections for carbon steel and for stainless steel, destined to Europe-an market.

During the next TUBE 2014 exhibi-tion in Dusseldorf, we will exhibit a complete forming and welding sec-tion of a Linea Cage Forming line for round section destined to an European customer for automotive industry.

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UK-based PGK Consult represents the company offering a unique project management service for entry into the Russian market

PGK Consult

Former ITA executive secretary and current ITA European Manage-ment Board member Phillip Knight, through his PGK Consult consul-tancy, teamed up in 2012 with Dr Svetlana Mamkina, owner of Nex-us-Europe GmbH to provide a very special service for companies per-haps daunted by the Russian mar-ket.

Nexus-Europe offers a unique and highly professional service to groups of companies wishing to gain entry to the Russian market including: strategy planning; risk analysis; market research; distribu-tion networks (without them noth-ing gets sold in Russia); consulting and assistance in negotiating with Government officials and potential partners; certification, approvals and permits (Certificate of Con-formity, Gost R etc); conference, forums and exhibition services. The whole process is project man-aged by Nexus-Europe and provides many advantages to companies working together to gain easier ac-cess to the Russian market whilst achieving worthwhile economies of scale:

Innovative, smart and cost ef-fective business model

Satisfying demands from Rus-sian distributors/end-users for full range of products with each group company providing com-plementary product

Group fulfils turn-key solutions or specific product orders from one location

Group companies gain registra-tion as official Russian compa-nies with a fully equipped work-ing place, local phone number, set hours of private confer-ence room access every month and business address, all in a high-profile business district in St Petersburg

Sales representative for group companies to sell and repre-sent products to distributors and end-users and multilingual secretary to administer phone calls, faxes, emails and post

Shared expenses mean group companies pay a fraction of the cost for all these highly advantageous services and by offering products in unison pay much less for shipping, cus-toms, marketing and promotion

Managed by Nexus-Europe with offices in Russia and Europe; eleven years of experience; government supported; highly qualified and exceptional staff with Certified Project Manage-ment Professional to super-vise everything (Founder and Managing Director Dr Svetlana Mamkina)

The service can also be provided for individual companies interested in Russia. There is no need to be daunted by the prospect of doing business in the booming Russian market or the costs involved with Nexus-Europe as a guide every step of the way. There is even a project management fee discount for ITA

members. For more information about how project management by Nexus-Europe can help achieve sales goals please contact Phillip Knight or visit the Nexus website for comprehensive details.

Phillip Knight, PGK Consult

PGK Consult2 The PaddockLower Boddington, Nr DaventryNorthants NN11 6YFUK

Tel: +44 79 06 86 92 32Email: phillip@

knight.fsbusiness.co.ukWeb: www.nexus-gmbh.biz/

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Satisfaction secured new jobREIKA GmbH & Co. KG

REIKA GmbH & Co. KG, member of the Graebener Group, recently re-ceived an order to supply a cham-fering line to the largest interna-tional steel group for one of their seamless tube mills. The turnkey line consists of two chamfering machines and an integrated trans-port system and will be assembled in a mill for hot-rolled tubes in Ro-mania.

This new order resulted in part from several jobs in the past, with the latest very successful deliveries of straighteners to a French subsidi-ary and cutting lines to the group’s Czech tube mill. As the customer is really satisfied with the quality and the performance of the REIKA products, those responsible recom-mended REIKA to their corporate headquarters. On the other hand, the company already convinced its customers with their high precision and rugged chamfering lines, in-cluding those, competitors of the steel group. The customers were also thrilled by the outstanding reliability of the systems, being a guarantee for high quality tube ends and tool lifetime. So the cus-tomer’s decision was clearly in fa-vor of REIKA as a turnkey supplier for the whole system.

The chamfering line will provide seamless pipes with a diameter of 114 (4.5“) to 406 mm (16”) and a wall thickness from 4 to 35 mm with bevels for the oil and gas in-dustry. The tubes meet API and ASME standards, are 5 to 15 m long and have a unit weight up to 3,500 kg. A complete custom-ized tool package will be delivered along with the line, consisting of

chamfering heads, tool holders and clamping tools.

REIKA chamfering lines provide facing, internal and external cham-fering to welded and seamless tubes in accordance with DIN, API, ASME or ANSI standards. The ma-chines can be supplied in single or double-sided design and can be in-tegrated online into the material- and the entire tube mill work flow.

REIKA chamfering lines are de-signed for 2 ½ to 24” diameter tubes. All lines can be equipped with special custom-made features, such as advanced CNC control, a detailed target/actual diameter measurement and a fully automatic

tool calibration, resulting in high cutting speed and short cycle and set-up times with flexible, custom-ized tool systems.

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High end quality, excellent performance und high precision are reasons why the largest international steel group made another turnkey investment to REIKA

Reika GmbH & Co. KG

Tiegelstrasse 3 58093 Hagen, Germany

Tel.: +49 2331 9690 0 Fax: +49 2331 969036

[email protected] www.reika.de




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Chuck Gehrisch Receives Award for On-Line Video

Roll-Kraft is pleased to announce it has been awarded a 2013 Telly Award (http://www.tellyawards.com). The Telly Awards, now in their 34th year, honor the very best film and video productions and groundbreaking online video content. The award, in the Online Video category, was presented to Chuck Gehrisch, Roll-Kraft pres-ident, for the company’s recent video regarding the floating flange roll produced by the company.

Roll-Kraft has been manufacturing roll tooling for the tube & pipe and roll forming industries for over 50 years. During that time, the compa-ny has addressed many issues that have plagued the industry. One of those issues is the natural discrep-ancy that occurs during manufac-turing, between the surface speed of the roll at its smallest diameter (the drive point), compared to the surface speed at the largest diame-ter of the roll. This variation quite often causes marking to appear on the final product. The use of floating flange rolls helps prevent this age-old problem. The process is explained in detail in the video, which appears on the Roll-Kraft YouTube channel.

The floating flange video is just one of the Roll-Kraft online training vid-eos that are available to the tube & pipe and roll forming industry.

Roll-Kraft has its headquarters in Mentor, Ohio, and maintains other facilities in Frankfort, Illinois (Roll-Kraft Northern), and Ontario, Cana-da (Roll-Kraft Ltd.). The company phone number is (888) 953-9400 or (440) 205-3100, and the fax number is (440) 205-3110. Please

also visit the website at roll-kraft.com. For easy and immediate con-tact with Roll-Kraft that transcends time zones and working hours, the website features Dr. Resolve. Sim-ply complete and submit an on-line form and Roll-Kraft will respond.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgzvLPBFXg8&fea-ture=share&list=PLSZY1crGd-K948k-TeIDreGYNgq_3TXHhX

ROLL-KRAFT recieves Telly AwardRoll-Kraft Inc.

Roll-Kraft Inc.

8901 Tyler Blvd. OH-44060 Mentor USA

Tel.: +1 888 953-9400 or +1 440 205-3100 Fax: +1 440 205-3110

www.roll-kraft.com


Product spectrum of “Pipe Alliance” between Schuler and Weldec rang-es from stand-alone machines and production lines to modernizations

The Göppingen-based press man-ufacturer Schuler and plant con-struction company WELDEC of Ernd-tebrück near Siegen, Germany, have forged an alliance to supply equip-ment to pipe mills. Under the name “Pipe Alliance”, the two companies will offer a range of solutions for the production of large longitudi-nal welded pipes (LSAW), which are needed for example for the con-struction of pipelines. The product spectrum ranges from stand-alone machines and production lines to the modernization and overhauling of equipment.

“The cooperation will enable us to design and install the best-possi-ble solution for efficient pipe pro-duction,” explained Weldec CEO Jörg Heinrich. “This means we can guarantee optimal processes and economic production start-ups.” Schuler’s Managing Director Dr. Martin Habert added: “This alliance offers customers around the world an unparallelled level of perfor-mance, aimed at ensuring the sus-tainable and economic production of top-quality pipes.”

Schuler has many decades of expe-rience in hydraulic press construc-tion and project management while Weldec has know-how in the set-up, commissioning and modernization of LSAW production plants. Togeth-er, they make ideal partners. Thanks to Schuler’s global presence, Weld-ec and its sales partner will now be available as a contact partner for customers in numerous time zones and languages– even after projects have been completed.

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Alliance to supply large pipe lines Schuler Pressen GmbH

Under the name “Pipe Alliance”, Schuler and Weldec have forged an alliance to supply equipment to pipe mills.

Left: Weldec outside welding system for the production of LSAW large pipes, which are needed for the construction of pipelines. (Photo source Schuler)

Schuler has many decades of experience in the con-

struction of hydraulic press-es and industrial plants. (Photo source Schuler)

Schuler Pressen GmbH

Bahnhofstrasse 4173033 Göppingen/Germany

Tel.: +49 7161 66307Fax: +49 7161 66729

[email protected]




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Chief Technology Officer Joachim Beyer takes over from Rolf Kellen-benz as head of foundation for pro-moting technology among young people. At a formal event of the Lou-is Schuler Fund attended by schol-arship holders last Friday, Schuler’s CTO Joachim Beyer was named as the foundation’s new Chairman. He takes over from his predecessor Rolf Kellenbenz, who was 14 years in of-fice. The foundation supports young people and educational institutes in the field of technology. It grants scholarships to budding engineers, master tradesmen and technicians, awards prizes, and supports various university projects.

“The Louis Schuler Fund plays an important role in reducing the shortage of young engineers and technicians,” stated Rolf Kellen-benz, who was also a long-serving Managing Director and Board of Management member at Schuler. “During his time as Chairman of the Louis Schuler Fund, the foun-dation helped 147 scholarship re-cipients to complete their studies,” added his successor Joachim Beyer. “Moreover, Mr. Kellenbenz awarded prizes to 85 graduates for their ex-ceptional achievements.”

In addition to the outstanding theses of university graduates, the foundation also honored 143 prom-ising graduates of Göppingen’s lo-cal high schools for their excellent math grades. Other projects receiv-ing support include a bionics exhi-bition at the Göppingen branch of Esslingen University; the “Global Engineering” project in coopera-tion with Esslingen’s partner uni-

versity in Monterrey, Mexico; the expansion of laboratory equipment at Göppingen’s technical college; and the Pupil-Engineer Academy, which gives upper-grade students in Göppingen an insight into en-gineering degree courses and the possibility to take on assignments while still at school.

Strong support for scholars throughout entire study periodThe foundation currently supports around 30 scholars. The criteria for receiving a scholarship include ex-cellent apprenticeship or study re-sults, social skills and a willingness to display above-average commit-ment. Scholarship recipients receive strong support throughout their studies and are regularly invited to Schuler’s head office in Göppingen for course-related discussions. This gives them the opportunity to dis-cuss questions with their respective mentors concerning their courses or possible periods abroad in the form of internships at one of Schuler’s foreign subsidiaries.

The Louis Schuler Fund (LSF) for Education and Science was found-ed by Louis Schuler – grandson of the company founder of the same name – on the occasion of his 60th birthday in 1967. His son, Dr. Rob-ert Schuler-Voith, later doubled the foundation’s assets with an endow-ment of one million euros, which he presented on his official depar-ture from the company in April last year. Since its inception, the Louis Schuler Fund has granted a total of 243 scholarships.

New Chairman of the Louis Schuler FundSchuler Pressen AG

Joachim Beyer (left) Chief Technology Officer of Schuler AG, takes over from Rolf Kellenbenz (right)as Chairman of the Louis Schuler Fund. (Photo source Schuler)

Schuler Pressen AG

Bahnhofstrasse 4173033 Göppingen/Germany

Tel.: +49 7161 66307Fax: +49 7161 66729

[email protected]

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Roll Machining Technologies and Solutions (RMTS) continues to de-liver innovation and excitement to their customers. Chicago, IL (USA) based RMTS has everything you need to train your new operators and enhance the performance of your experienced operators. RMTS CEO Joe Olson has put together the world’s first and only DVD Training System for Tube Mill Operators. Joe personally delivers this experience through a 9 part series that takes the operator through each stand on the mill.

Training DVD 1 covers Identifica-tion & purpose of every stand on your mill.

DVD 2 takes you through setup techniques & procedures and DVD 3 shows tooling designs and consid-erations. Keep in mind that Joe’s experience as a tube mill opera-tor conveys his training methods to the operator from an operator’s perspective. This includes an easy to follow instruction pace and lan-guage any beginning operator will understand.

The series continues with the fol-lowing titles: Making Squares from Rounds, Making T.I.G. weld tube, Comparison of tube welding pro-cess, managing your roll tool room, track tooling & inspection. The newest programs to the series are DVD 8, Operator training for high frequency tube & pipe welding.

Contact Joe Olson and RMTS today and learn how your company and operators can benefit from this one-on-one training.

The world’s first and only DVD Training System for Tube Mill Operators

Roll Machining Technologies and Solutions (RMTS)

Roll Machining Technologies & Solutions (RMTS)

641 Forestwood Drive Romeoville - IL-60446 USA

Tel.: +1 815-372-9100 Fax: +1 815-372-9105

[email protected] www.rollsolutions.com

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Today, processes in the produc-ing industry must be faster, more cost-effective and more individu-alised. Saving even a few seconds has a noticeable effect on produc-tion efficiency. The new machine control from Schwarze-Robitec reduces auxiliary process time to a minimum. The bending machine manufacturer has broken down the original sequence of the bending process and arranged the individ-ual steps synchronously. The new, effort-saving control software is supplemented by an integrat-ed diagnostic and maintenance tool which minimises downtimes. Schwarze-Robitec will be present-ing the new development for the first time at the Tube 2014 in Düs-seldorf at Booth E27 in Hall 5.

“There are already a range of sys-tems on the market, which al-low individual processes to run simultaneously where possible”, explains Bert Zorn, Managing Di-rector at Schwarze-Robitec. “Our control goes a crucial step further. It already prepares the respectively next working step during execu-tion of the current process. Just-in-time, so to speak“. An example: While the tube is being fed to the tool, the clamping functions close almost fully. This means that the tool is immediately ready for the next bending step when the tube reaches its target position.

For Schwarze-Robitec it was also very important to develop a simple, intuitive and effort-saving control. “In the past years, the number of machine functions has increased strongly”, reports Hartmut Stöhr, also Managing Director. “Before,

the operator had to select and con-figure more and more parameters and functions. Now, our control takes over this time-intensive work as a standard feature. “The soft-ware finds the optimal parameters for the respective bending order thus reducing cycle times consid-erably.

Menu navigation and structure are also designed in a clear manner which simplifies workflow addi-tionally. The integrated diagnostic and maintenance tool guides the operator through all setting and optimising steps and checks all da-ta reliably for validity. If the ma-chine operator forgets to define a parameter, the tool will remind him of this. “Fitted with such aids, our control software clearly contributes to faster and more economical pro-duction processes”, supplements Stöhr in conclusion. At the fair booth E27 in Hall 5 of the Tube in Düsseldorf the Schwarze-Robitec specialists will personally provide information about the advantages of the new machine control in per-son.

Time-optimised and precise controlSchwarze-Robitec GmbH

Schwarze-Robitec GmbH

Olpener Str. 460-474D-51109 Koeln / Germany

Tel.: +49 221 89008-0 Fax: +49 221 89008-9920

[email protected]


DüsseldorfHall 05, Booth E27

The new, easy-to-operate machine con-trol from Schwarze-Robitec clocks the individual working steps synchronous for time-optimised production.


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Sektor – The premium Agency for trade fairs and events

Sektor GmbH

Sektor is a Germany based premium agency for integrated international trade fair and events communica-tion. Deeply rooted in Düsseldorf the capital of North-Rhine West-falia, one of the biggest and most influential industrial areas within Germany, home of the Messe Dues-seldorf GmbH and a variety of inter-national leading trade shows (TUBE 2014), Sektor, however, feels at home all over the world. Why? With over 20 years of experience in the international trade fair and events business, Sektor has already sup-ported projects in more than 30 countries on six continents. For example: since over fourteen years Sektor has developed, organized and executed almost every TUBE fair appearance for leading compa-nies of the tube industry worldwide – amongst others …

Focused on every single detail Se-ktor creates not only an extraordi-nary booth presentation, but a fas-cinating trade fair appearance that becomes a highly emotional, visual and holistic experience - thus en-suring the maximum sustainable success for every client.

With regard to its integrated ap-proach Sektor operates at all stag-es along the working process: from consultancy on the creative con-ception to operational steps up to the final implementation of a pro-ject. In doing so Sektor identifies firstly its customer’s visions and goals in order to create a harmo-nious whole, tailor-made solution that correlates perfectly with the customer’s business strategy. On all stages Sektor provides an ac-curate and transparent planning, customized solutions and precise, budget-oriented implementation.

Regarding themselves as simple project managers, Sektor coordi-nates diverse skills and needs. On a very sensible, practical approach Sektor integrates internal as well as external know-how worldwide by networking over decades with proven specialists. By this means Sektor can guarantee cost-effec-tive trim interfaces and ensure planning security for you: An all-round single-stop service.

Sektor’s three-pillar-strategy: Planning, Staging, EmotionalisingTrade fairs and events are an ex-cellent opportunities to acquire customers and tap new markets. Those who wish to exploit these potentials at their very best need to present themselves in a way

Above and right side: Examples of booth constructions for different clients at international trade shows.


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that is fascinating and sure to be talked about. As a renowned agen-cy Sektor knows how to achieve this and offers creative ideas and eye-catching executions based on the agency’s three-pillar- strategy.

A professional for highlightsSektor implements individual, holistic and dialogue-oriented full-service concepts for every cus-tomer – from small to media-sized companies to multinational corpo-rations. Tailor-made to each cus-tomer’s needs, wishes and corpo-rate design. The service of Sektor includes amongst others: Budget-ing, controlling, stand architec-ture, outdoor advertising, digital media concepts up to catering, stand invitation, stand design to media technology and entertain-ment at fairs, congresses and sym-posia – and so on.

Setting the sceneProducts and brands are always interchangeable. But Sektor sees them from a different point of view. Thus, Sektor develops unique ideas and distinctive presentations: Suit-able for every companie’s profile. This includes among others: On-site project management, locations and artists scouting, training and equipment of the service personnel, transport and logistics up to hotel reservations and transfers, Visa ap-plications and customs clearance, film and photo documentations.

Experiences with long-term effect.Authenticity is the keyword for a quality that separates the wheat from the chaff. Sektor regards au-thenticity as the foundation of its personal and business relation-ships that are build up on trust and sustainability. Many of Sektor’s customers come from the fields of plant and mechanical engineering, logistics and telecommunications, but the individual support and as-sistance is independent of industry and size.

Contact Data, clients, references, examples under www.sektor.com

Sektor GmbH

Am Bonneshof 540474 Düsseldorf/Germany

Tel.: +49 211 540 090 Fax: +49 211 540 09-93

[email protected]


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SIKORA will be presenting a broad product range of innovative technology

SIKORA AG

At this year’s wire/Tube, SIKORA will be presenting a broad prod-uct range of innovative technology for quality control in the hose and tube industry as well as for manu-facturers of raw materials.

PURITY SCANNER: 100% Pellet InspectionThe highlight at SIKORA’s booth is the newly developed PURITY SCAN-NER. The PURITY SCANNER is a sys-tem for the online inspection and sorting of plastic pellets. The sys-tem detects contaminations from 50µm in raw materials used for ap-plications where 100% purity is re-quired, for example in the medical technology field, in the automotive industry, in aircraft manufacturing or at the production of high voltage and submarine cables. Contaminat-ed pellets are separated and blown out, assuring that only pure pellets get into the extrusion process. The pellet inspection allows the detec-tion of organic and metallic con-taminations inside the pellet as well as on the pellet surface, using a special combination of X-ray tech-nology and an optical system.

X-RAY 6000 / X-RAY 6000 PRO: Quality control, highest produc-tivity and material savingsThe X-RAY 6000 / X-RAY 6000 PRO offers a continuous online measure-ment and control of the wall thick-ness, eccentricity and the inner/outer diameter of hose and tube extrusion lines. It is used for the measurements of single and multi layer products with a diameter of 0.7 to 650 mm. The X-RAY 6000 PRO comes with an integrated 22” display and control system ECO-

CONTROL 6000 for a continuous, automatic control of the line speed or the extruder rpm under consider-ation of nominal values. Hence, the system significantly contributes to quality assurance, highest produc-tivity and material savings in the production of hoses and tube.

LASER Series 2000 and 6000: High-speed diameter measure-ment and lump detectionIn addition to SIKORA’s successful diameter gauges of the classic-line LASER Series 2000, SIKORA offers the top-line LASER Series 6000. These diameter measuring devices are specifically designed for so-phisticated customer requirements that exceed the classic demands in the hose and tube industry. The gauges fulfill all needs regarding highest accuracy, a variety of in-terface connection options and reliability for a quality control at its best during hose and tube pro-duction. The high accuracy allows in addition the detection of lumps and neckdowns. Three gauges are available for different product di-ameters from 0.2 to 78 mm.

LUMP 2000 XY and LUMP 2000 T: Reliable lump detectionMoreover, SIKORA presents the 2-ax-is and 3-axis lump detectors LUMP 2000 XY and LUMP 2000 T. In combi-nation with an unique double sensor technology, punctual irregularities at the product surface are detected.

Experience these and other tech-nological highlights for the quality control in hose and tube extrusion lines at the SIKORA booth 9A41 at the exhibition center of the WIRE.

One of SIKORA‘s highlight at the TUBE 2014: The X-RAY 6120 PRO

SIKORA AG

Bruchweide 228307 Bremen Germany

Tel.: +49 421 48900-0Fax: +49 421 48900-90

[email protected]


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Extended ServiceSIKORA AG

Customer satisfaction is SIKORA’s most important aim. Not only the technology is focused on this, but also the customer service. This service is diverse and includes the handling of support requests, com-missioning of equipment, mainte-nance or repair and the supply of spare parts. In addition to classical service, SIKORA offers device train-ings and is now putting a focus on a calibration service for customers. With SIKORA’s extended service support, customers can choose from a variety of service possibil-ities – no matter in which part of the world the devices are installed.

Calibration service for customersAfter the delivery of SIKORA devic-es, an adjustment is not necessary. Adjustment in this sense means the correction of the actual val-ue to the nominal value in order to receive a correct display of the measuring values. All SIKORA de-vices are free of moving parts, so they are not subject to wear, which influence the measuring accuracy and keep their accuracy for the en-tire life-time.

For the required monitoring of measuring equipment according to ISO 9001, SIKORA offers a cali-bration service for customers. With this calibration, the accuracy of the measuring device is verified and documented.

Usually, customers require a cali-bration of their devices once a year and put this in the hands of SIKORA. The benefit for customers is that they do not need to buy and maintain the calibration tools and equipment.

A distinction is made between two types: the In-House Calibration

Service and the On-Site Calibration Service.

In-House Calibration ServiceThe calibration of the devices is performed by a service technician at SIKORA’s headquarters in Bre-men or at the specially equipped SIKORA subsidiaries. A functional test and basic cleaning is carried out and the reliability and accura-cy of the device are checked. Af-terwards, the customer receives a “calibration certificate” which confirms the successful calibration with certified test probes. A spe-cial service is that SIKORA provides loan equipment for the time of calibration.

On-Site Calibration ServiceFor customers with permanently installed equipment or with the de-mand to avoid time losses due to the delivery of the device, SIKORA recommends the On-Site Calibra-tion Service. The calibration is per-formed by a trained SIKORA engi-neer at the customer’s site.

A functional test and basic clean-ing is carried out and the reliabil-ity and accuracy are checked. In addition, the technician checks the installation of the device on site, maintains the equipment and of-fers employee training on request.

Worldwide representedThe SIKORA technicians work in all parts of the world. Customers are supported by a SIKORA service spe-cialist in Bremen or by one of the global offices in their native lan-guage.

SIKORA now offers a calibration service for customers




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Changzhou ChangBao commissions stretch- reducing mill and groove dressing machine

SMS Meer GmbH

Changzhou ChangBao from Chang-zhou, Jiangsu Province, China, has commissioned a new stretch-reduc-ing mill including automation sys-tem from SMS Meer, Germany. The scope of supply includes the CARTA® technology package (Computer Aid-ed Rolling Technology Application) and a fully automated groove dress-ing machine of type KR III 25 CNC. It will enable Changzhou ChangBao to produce heavy-walled tubes with small diameters from high-alloy steels.

The stretch-reducing mill is equipped with the SMS Meer single universal drive. Each roll shaft is driven indi-vidually by an electric motor.

By contrast with conventional stretch-reducing mills, the undesir-able internal polygonization does not occur here. An internal poly-gon is a wall thickness irregulari-ty of hexagonal shape that occurs particularly in tubes with large wall thicknesses and small diameters.

“With the stretch-reducing mill from SMS Meer we can produce more flexibly and improve the product quality. CARTA® ensures a very good tube quality and uniform wall thicknesses. With the new groove dressing machine, we also have the right groove for every di-ameter quickly and easily to hand,” says Wang Kui, Technical Director at Changzhou ChangBao.

The mill has an annual capacity of around 100,000 tons of seamless tubes in the diameter range from 26.7 to 114.3 millimeters.

Free groove shapingChangzhou ChangBao has also re-ceived a KR III 25 CNC groove dressing machine from SMS Meer for machining the rolls of the new stretch-reducing mill. The grooves in the rolls can be machined ful-ly automatically on this machine. The machine is equipped with a measuring device which records the stand and roll data under automat-ic program control.

Machining of the rolls from the front side of the stand allows any desired groove form to be produced and the edge radii to be machined in a single pass.

Changes to the groove forms are easily possible by quick repro-gramming of the machine. Linking to the works databases and control systems, for example to the CARTA® technology system from SMS Meer, is also possible.

SMS Meer has trained the custom-er’s personnel intensively so that they can operate the machine ef-ficiently.

SMS Meer GmbH

Ohlerkirchweg 6641069 Mönchengladbach Germany

Tel.: +49 2161 350 2030 Fax: +49 2161 350 1870

[email protected] www.sms-meer.com


DüsseldorfHall 07a, Booth 7aB15/16

Groove dressing machine of type KR III 25 CNC.


SMS Meer will be presenting innova-tive plant and machine engineering technologies at Tube & wire 2014, to be held in Düsseldorf, Germa-ny, between 7 and 11 April. New ecoplants solutions such as Perfect Arc® and PSM® offer plant owners both ecological and economic ben-efits in their markets.

“Our plants make wire rod and tube production more efficient and more sustainable,” says Norbert Theelen, Member of the Managing Board of SMS Meer. “We are continuously de-veloping new solutions to keep up with market demand.”

Stand B15 in Hall 7a is where SMS Meer will be presenting the com-pany’s entire range of services for tubes and pipes and wire rod. This includes seamless tube and weld-ed tube plants, spiral pipe and large-diameter pipe plants, tube forging plants, long products and wire rod mills, bright steel ma-chines, copper plants, heat treat-ment technology and services.

Many SMS Meer products carry the ecoplants mark and meet high eco-logical and economic standards. Perfect Arc® and PSM® have re-cently been included in this.

Digital welding with Perfect Arc®PWS, part of the SMS Meer Busi-ness Area, will be presenting Per-fect Arc®, a precision-controlled solution for arc and submerged arc welding for producing spiral pipes. A digitalized current source gener-ates the “perfect arc” while at the same time using 30 to 40 per cent less energy. In spite of the high speeds of up to 12 m/min Per-

fect Arc® still boasts a significant reduction in product rejects and plant wear.

Innovative 3-roll PSM® technol-ogyWith PSM® (Precision Sizing Mill) technology SMS Meer can provide flexibility and process transparen-cy in bar and wire rod production. Thanks to the 3-roll technology the rolls can also be positioned un-der load using hydraulic cylinders. Combined with MEERgauge®, a pre-cision laser measuring device for cross-section measurement, PSM® can be used fully automatically and generates additional revenue of up to 10 euros per ton.

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SMS Meer introduces innovative technologies – Perfect Arc® and PSM®

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3-roll PSM® technology of SMS Meer.

New solution of SMS Meer: Perfect Arc®


To offer safe, complex and feasible piping solutions to its customers is the major focus of TRACTO-TECHNIK (TT) from Lennestadt / Germany. At TUBE 2014 in Düsseldorf TT not on-ly presents innovative technology for bending and processing tubes but also high-precision measuring systems for quality control and re-verse engineering as well as effi-cient software solutions for tube shop automation and workflow op-timization.

In the matter of tube bending tech-nology TT shows the servo-electri-cally driven, multi-radii CNC tube

bending machine TUBOTRON 25 MR for tubes from OD 4 to 25 mm (1’’), which completely goes without any hydraulics. The machine’s exposed and extremely compact bending head enables the production of complex tube shapes at bending speeds up to 170°/sec. The main applications are in aerospace tech-nology, automotive industry or fur-niture industry.

Another brand new tube working machine is the TUBOFORM C, a combined table-top machine for hydraulic connection technology, which enables quick and safe flar-

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Teutenberg stocks more than 100 special machines on a floor area of about 3 000 qm

Teutenberg Maschinen GmbH & Co. KG

This year Franz Teutenberg GmbH & Co KG (also known as TEUTENBERG MASCHINEN) located in Willich, a town close to Düsseldorf, GERMANY attends again at the international trade fair WIRE + TUBE in Düsseldorf from 07. – 11. April 2014.

We stock more than 100 special ma-chines on a floor area of about 3 000 meters². We can offer you new or hardly used machines which have either been sold by their previous owners owing to reorganisation measures or original from bankrupts’ estates. We also stock older spe-cial-purpose production machines and installations which can still give many years of service, thus en-abling you to achieve a considerable saving in capital expenditure.

We shall be pleased to submit you a detailed quotation, please quote our stock number in your enquiry. We furthermore invite enquiries for machines not mentioned in our stock list, as we also act as agents for the sale of large-scale plants still standing on their owners premises awaiting sale.

Helmut Mangold, General Manager at Fanz Teutenberg GmbH & Co. KG and his team expect a lot of regular customers as well as long-standing business-partners who come for consultancy or only for a short visit to their booth 12 B 17. Helmut Man-gold states: “We are also looking forward to get in touch with some new contacts and meet new inter-ested parties to whom we can intro-

duce our second hand machines and installations for manufacturing and processing wire, bars, sheets, strips and tubes.”

The CNC pipe bending machine TUBOTRON 25 MR enables fast and pre-cise bending of complex pipe shapes.

Teutenberg Maschinen GmbH & Co. KG

Am Nordkanal 34-36 47877 Willich Germany

Tel.: +49 215 495 79 0 Fax: +49 215 495 79 29

[email protected] www.teutenberg-maschinen.com



Smart Solutions for Efficient Piping: Machinery, Measuring & Software

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ing of tube ends as well as leak-age-free assembly of various cut-ting-rings.

With the TUBOSCAN S TRACTO- TECHNIK shows a highly inno-vative optical measuring system, that determines the geometric data of tube figures within a matter of seconds. In addition to tube bends with standard radii this device also manages to measure and document freeform bends. The measuring sys-tem is well suited for quality as-surance as well as for correction of tube bending data. It is available with different measuring ranges. Customer-specific requirements can also be considered for the layout.

In addition to machinery and measuring technology TT presents a brand new version of its PIPEFAB software package. This compre-hensive “workflow optimization” software has completely been re-engineered and is now avail-

able with various functions and new features. Its modular design, starting with a sketch edition, over bending edition, hydraulic edition and manufacturing edition up to a professional edition ensures cus-tom-made, practicable and efficient solutions for all kind of users. A stand-alone pipe bending software for small pipe bending companies is as well available as a complete client-server-based workflow man-agement system for optimizing the whole pipe fabrication process of global player companies.

The TRACTO-TECHNIK product range comprises CNC and semi-automat-ic tube bending machines, assem-bly machines for hydraulic tubing, tube end forming machines and tube measuring systems as well as software solutions for tube and pipe processing.

TRACTO-TECHNIK GmbH & Co. KGHunold-Rump-Str. 76-80

57368 Lennestadt Germany

Tel.: +49 2725 [email protected] pipebending.tracto-technik.com


DüsseldorfHall 05, Booth 5E21

The TUBOSCAN S 200 for fast and precise optical measuring of tube and pipe shapes.

The new PIPEFAB V4 comes up with several new features, e.g. an enhanced real-time bending simulation.

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HF Welding simplified for diverse API product manufacturer

Thermatool Corp

One of the World’s largest suppli-ers of ERW pipes has completed the installation of a new 800kW HAZControl™ Technology Dual (in-duction/contact) Solid State HF Welder at one of their North Amer-ican facilities. Dedicated to serving the growing demand of the glob-al oil and gas industry, the North American producer chose Therma-tool to meet API standards required by their customers.

The organization has a wide prod-uct matrix of API products ranging from 4.5” to 8.6” OD and 0.188” to 0.500” wall pipe. The manufacturer chose Thermatool’s HAZControl™ Technology Welder software for the ability to select HF weld power and frequency in ±1kW and 1kHz increments, resulting in industry leading heat input control dur-ing welding. To maximize up-time during product change-over, the predictive algorithm built into the HAZControl™ Technology software guides operators to the initial heat settings. When a product has been tested and proven successful, the software allows operators to store and then easily recall welding reci-pes so HF welding variability is re-duced and repeatability is achieved regardless of operator know-how or shift-to-shift operations.

The Dual welding option offers the manufacturer many product options with the flexibility of using two welding processes, induction or con-tact, on one welding system. This gives the pipe producer the ability to achieve significant power savings when welding large diameter pipe with High Frequency contact weld-ing, yet still choose the induction welding process when needed.

With the new equipment in place, the manufacturer can reliably pro-duce high quality API and Proprie-tary Grade pipe to meet the grow-ing demand of the global oil and gas industry.

Patented Thermatool® HAZControl™ Technology 800kW Dual Welder

Thermatool Corp

31 Commerce Street CT 06512, East Haven USA

Tel.: +1203903 6606 Fax: +1203468 4281 [email protected] www.thermatool.com





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UPCAST®-SGTube offers a shortcut in copper tube production

UPCAST® OY

SGTube gets you there in one step compared with the multiple steps of traditional tube production.

SGTube is the continuous casting technology from UPCAST OY. It is an extension of the UPCAST® sys-tem used for casting copper & cop-per alloy rod. UPCAST®-SGTube pro-cess shares all the same inherent benefits of our standard system, with improved construction of the casting machine, coilers and cast-ing machine tooling.

The solution delivers thin-walled copper tube with a grain struc-ture enabling the cast tube to be directly worked down with tube drawing machines. The tube com-ing from the process is in cast con-dition allowing straight breakdown drawing followed by inductive in-line annealing. To ensure complete softening a total area reduction of 50-60% is required before interme-diate annealing.

Solutions for small and medium capacitiesAs with UPCAST® rod production lines, UPCAST®-SGTube lines are al-so of modular design. Both single- and double-furnace configurations are possible. With a double-furnace configuration – having separate melting and casting furnaces – it is possible to reach 12,000 tpa output while 9,000 tpa is possible for a sin-gle-furnace configuration. If scrap – clean and dry – will form a sig-nificant part of the input material then a double-furnace configuration should be your preferred choice.

Sizes of tube with outer diame-ters from 38 mm to 60 mm have

been cast, with wall thicknesses of 2 mm/3 mm respectively. Different tube sizes can be cast even simul-taneously when the casting ma-chine is equipped with more than one servo-drive system. The small-er the final tube size, the smaller the cast tube size. With respect to coil weight UPCAST®-SGTube is ex-tremely flexible with an upper limit of about 1.5 tons. The defining lim-it is more likely to be prior process-es equipment.

The main usage of UPCAST®-SGTube is in the casting of phosphor deox-idized (DHP) copper tube for the production of sanitary, industrial as well as ACR tubing. The process is however not limited only to DHP copper but is suitable also for oth-er copper grades/copper alloys. Ox-ygen free copper as well as copper nickel alloys have all been success-fully cast.

Huge leap in just one step Having the UPCAST®-SGTube pro-cess as the first step of your tube production line can mean clear savings to the lifecycle costs. As the cast tube is already rath-er close to final product sizes the UPCAST®-SGTube process gets you there in just one step compared with existing tube mills requiring several shorter but costly steps. Further savings can be gained through the smaller space re-quirement of the line, being just a fraction of the floor area required by the conventional equipment, which can be replaced by the UP-CAST®-SGTube line.

UPCAST®-Hybrid – natural off-spring of UPCAST®-SGTube

After the advent of UPCAST®-SGTube it was only a question of time be-fore a hybrid system capable of casting both rod and tube would emerge. UPCAST®-Hybrid technol-ogy is based on using the same equipment for casting both prod-ucts. This has been achieved by modifying certain product specific parts of the UPCAST®-SGTube cast-ing machine and coilers to facili-tate easy changeover. The flexibil-ity of the product mix makes the hybrid system a truly cost-effective solution for companies with a di-verse product portfolio.

A hybrid configuration may have two separate furnaces from which the casting takes place. However at any given time just one will be used for casting purposes while the other would be in a standby posi-tion. Such an arrangement allows two different types of melt to be

UPCAST® 3-furnace Hybrid Line


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continuously available - e.g. oxy-gen free copper for rod and DHP copper for tube. Typically just one product type is cast at a time but the hybrid casting machine does allow also rod and tube to be cast simultaneously when produced from the same type of melt.

On top of developmentUPCAST® R&D work is carried out by our experts at the company´s own Pilot Plant. The company is deter-mined to stay on top of the devel-opment in its field and is contin-uously looking for improvements, new products and applications to meet the changing requirements of the customers and markets.

Customer service by heart

Production lines are never short term investments, but the custom-ers are carefully planning their cap-ital expenditures for years ahead. UPCAST® continuous castings lines are reliably and fully operating every day of the week. This would not be possible without a fast, reliable and continuous UPCAST® Customer Service for consumables and spare parts. The opposite could mean major losses through the lost production time for customers. We remain at your service – contin-uously! UPCAST® Quality will continue to be the best in the mar-ket.

Cast & Draw - where 1 + 1 equals more than 2

To exploit the full potential of SGTube UPCAST has joined forces with ASMAG GmbH to develop a new concept called “Cast & Draw” for cost-efficient production of copper tubes for sanitary and certain ACR tubing . The “Cast” portion con-sists of the UPCAST® SGTube pro-cess while the “Draw” part includes straight drawing and intermediate annealing equipment. The C & D production line requires much less space than the conventional equip-ment. Output from a single C & D unit is today possible up to 12,000 TPA. Adaption of the C & D con-cept to copper alloys is also possi-ble one example being Cu-Ni tubes for seawater applications.

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UPCAST® 2-furnace Hybrid Line

UPCAST OYP.O. Box 60 280101 Pori Finland

Tel.: +358207 577 415

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Innovative roll-less forming technology for thin stainless steel tube forming mill

W&J Group – Taiwan

Besides traditional roll forming tube mills, W&J Group have recent-ly developed roll-less tube forming technology. W&J ROLL-LESS MILL WNJ-SMBT is a stainless steel pipe making machine, using non-roller forming technology. This innova-tive design is used to produce stain-less steel tubes for bellows and soft pipes with very thin wall thickness and big diameter in a minimum

ratio as 0.004. Main structure of line is consisted of Forming Sys-tem, Welding System, Traction Sys-tem, Sizing System, Cutting System and Electrical Control System. It is suitable for tubes of stainless steel 300/400 series, Inconel 625, 718 and Hastelloy C-276 with wall thickness from 0.12 to 0.5mm. For more details please contact W&J Group.

W&J Group – Taiwan5Fl. 497 Zhongming South Road, West District (40347), Taichung, Taiwan

Tel: +886-4-23757010 Fax: +886-4-23757020

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View camera to monitor TIG/laser welding for tube & pipe mills

Xiris Automation Inc.

Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Feb 14, 2014: Xiris Automation Inc is pleased to announce that it has released its latest version of its XVC-O View Camera for steel Tube & Pipe fabricators to allow them to monitor their TIG or Laser Welding Processes. The system includes a camera that is capable of High Dy-namic Range image capture so as to simultaneously see all features of the TIG torch tip or Laser weld arc, its surrounding environment and its position relative to the Tube weld seam. Benefits for the fabricator include increased pro-ductivity through reduced set up and adjustment time; improved health and safety conditions for the operator; and better weld qual-ity through improved monitoring of the seam alignment and the weld process quality.

The system’s optics generate a small enough Field of View to pro-vide High Resolution images of the

weld pool detail as the weld arc cuts the parent tube material and the material subsequently solidi-fies. Operators are able to clearly see if defects such as dross or po-rosity develop as the weld pool so-lidifies and monitor the condition of the weld tip, shielding gas and material fit up. For more informa-tion, please visit www.xiris.com.

Xiris Automation Inc1016 Sutton Drive, Unit C5 Burlington Canada

Tel.: +1 905 331 [email protected]

XVC-O View Camera for steel Tube & Pipe fabricators

The two globally leading trade fairs wire and Tube will be staged - for the 14th time already – at the Düs-seldorf Exhibition Centre from 7 to 11 April 2014. On a total net floor space of more than 100,000 square meters, they will showcase the ac-cumulated technology prowess of the wire, cable and tube manufac-turing and processing sectors. More than 2.000 exhibitors are present-ing their latest technologies and products at Düsseldorf fairgrounds.

The range of offerings at wire 2014 will cover a wide spectrum, from wire manufacturing and finishing equipment, mesh welding machin-ery, process engineering tools and auxiliary components all the way through to input materials and speciality wires. Innovative solu-tions from the cable, measurement, control and test engineering sec-tors round off the portfolio, and specialised sectors such as logis-tics, conveying systems and pack-aging will also be represented. In total more than 1.200 exhibitors

will present their latest products and technologies on an exhibitions area of 58.000 square metres.

The wire event will be spread out across Halls 9 to 12 and 15 to 17. The areas wire, cable and fibre optic machinery, and wire and cable pro-duction and trade will be located in Halls 9 to 12, 16 and 17. Fasten-er technology can be found in Hall 15; spring making and mesh weld-ing machinery will be located in Hall 16. For the first time, the mesh welding machinery sector will have its own compact presentation forum – a Special Show in just one hall.

The Tube event will present its 2014 ranges in Halls 1 to 7.0 and Hall 7a. The sector’s entire range will be on display, from tube man-ufacturing to tube processing and finishing. More than 1.100 exhib-itors have applied on a total of 50.000 square metres.

Additional exhibits will range from tube materials, tubes and accesso-ries, tube manufacturing machinery and second-hand equipment to pro-

cess engineering tools and auxiliary components all the way through to measurement and control technolo-gy. Test technology and specialised areas such as stock automation and control systems will supplement the extensive ranges.

Tube accessories will be found in Halls 1 and 2, whereas Tube trading and manufacturing will be located in Halls 2 to 4 and Hall 7.0./7.1. Also in Hall 2 - the China Pavilion!

Look for forming technology in Hall 5 and for pipe and tube processing machinery in Halls 6 and 7a. The plant and machinery area will be in Hall 7a and sections will be found throughout Halls 1 to 7.0.

Current information about both trade fairs can be found at their re-spective online portals: www.wire.de and www.Tube.de


Special: Tube 2014

Current information about both trade fairs can be found at: www.wire.de / www.Tube.deYour 2014 Press Contact:

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Kathrin Kleophas van den Bongardt

Tel.: +49 211 4560 541/544 Tel.: +49 211 4560 87 541/544

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Front tail tapering (FTT) byE. Cernuschi

DANIELI CENTRO TUBE informs

The seamless pipe manufacturing process involves three hot defor-mation steps: piercing, rolling with an internal tool, diameter reduc-tion and stretching.

The nature of the final deformation step accomplished in the Stretch Reducing Block (SRB) or in a Sizing Mill (SM) leads to the generation of thickened front and tail pipe ends.

This phenomenon is caused by the inability to maintain inter-stand tension constant during the pas-sage of different pipe sections through the mill.

Reduced stretch applied to the front and tail zones of the pipe es-sentially require that these zones are cut, leading to a loss in pro-duction.

If the same tensile force applied to the body of the pipe is not applied to the front and tail ends when performing the required deforma-tion (diameter reduction and WT variation) this may result in thick-ened pipe ends.

If the wall thickness of the ends is over the permitted measurements, then the ends must be cut off.

The Heavy End Control (HEC) pro-cedure is usually applied to reduce crop loss.

HEC generates over-stretching at the tube ends, i.e. during the transient states of SRB filling and emptying.

DANIELI CENTRO TUBE has over the last few years developed and put into operation an additional dis-tinctive strategy to reduce crops and improve yield.

This technological packet enti-tled FTT (Front Tail Tapering) is fully integrated into the plant’s Automation System and involves producing a pipe in the second step of deformation, during Fine Quality Mill (FQM™) rolling with tapered front and tail zones in order to compensate any subse-quent thickening in the Stretch Reducing Block. This operation allows for a significant reduction in crop weight, approximately 30% to 40% according to the deformation considered when producing a specific product.

Front Tail Tapering (FTT) is a math-ematical model and control system capable of producing a specific nar-rower shaped end in the mother tube.

FTT is consequently a function to set the mill in order to produce an outlet profile which does not have uniform wall thickness along the length of the pipe; this also compensates une-venness along the pipe body.

FTT application in FQM™ rolling is based upon the adjustment under load of both roll speeds and cap-sule strokes operating on the radial position of the rolls.

The walls are thinned at the ends of the mother tube during rolling in the 2 to N stand FQM mill by dis-placing the stand rolls by simulta-neously changing the speed of the mill stand rolls.

Synchronized adjustment of roll position and speed is compulsory to avoid inter-stand tensions or compressions in FQM rolling.

One of the most important issues to be resolved is simultaneous dynamic

control of a significant number of pa-rameters: for instance in a six stand mill the number of parameters to be adjusted simultaneously are 30 (15 roll positions and 15 roll speeds)

Stand 1 is used to trigger the con-trol.

Both roll speed and position of the hydraulic capsule are adapted ac-cording to a clear-cut, calculated pattern.

Calculations are performed apply-ing the volume conservation prin-ciple during a plastic deformation.

The outlet target volume is in fact subdivided into elements and each of these is followed along the mill during the deformation process. In this way roll positions and speeds are computed.

Input data required for the FTT al-gorithms are:

Outgoing (wall thickness) profile and tapered section length of the mother tube.

The required outgoing mother tube profile (defined with a set of lengths, thickness and shapes) is introduced by the operator by typing in a set of measured coordinates and thickness variation pairs (see figure below). The thickness variation refers to the reference thickness.

Since the tapered length, L3 (body) is unknown it cannot be recorded and will be calculated using vol-ume conservation taking into con-sideration the actual pierced shell processed in the FQM.

The operator is also free to decide how to interpolate the profile


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thickness between two consecutive points: with a straight line (degree 1), or a parabola (degree 2).

FTT returns on output for each stand and for every instant:

Roll displacements and roll speeds that are used in motor speed and capsule control.

FIG.1

The front end of the pipe is easi-ly detected when loaded onto FQM stand 1 and all the following stands are used to correct the front profile.

The tail position is detected in a similar mode, when the tail exits FQM stand 1 all the following stands are used to correct the tail profile.

Through measurement of load-on and load-off times precise pipe length may be established.

The graph on top illustrates incor-rect tail detection, while the graph just below illustrates the correct pattern.

FIG 2

The following in-line measured pipe after SRB represents FTT ap-plication with HEC.

FTT application is consistent pipe after pipe thanks to the following:

Front and Tail of the pipe are detected online by the load-on and load-off signals.

The friction coefficient may vary according to roll wear con-ditions and does not necessar-ily influence the result since rolling occurs between rolls and mandrel.

The Mathematical model is in-tegrated in the automation sys-tem and the number of param-eters to be adjusted is limited; the HMI is user-friendly.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

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The diagram above shows a pipe rolled using the FTT and HEC ap-plication after the SRB, it is worth-while acknowledging that the FTT also works where there is limited diameter reduction in the SRB, cutting down crops and improving yield.

ConclusionsIntegration of the hot wall thick-ness measuring system with dy-namic control of the FQM and SRB mill influence improvements in wall thickness tolerance and yield thus enabling Danieli Centro Tube to offer the state-of-the-art tech-nology in this field:

experience in capsule, motor speed and signals control in conjunction with proper mathematical models are the key to success in Seamless Pipe Mill process control.

Figure 4

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Transfer pricing documentation – New rules for multinational enterprises

RSM Altavis GmbH is the German member firm of RSM International

On 30 January 2014 the Organiza-tion of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released its Discussion Draft on Transfer Pricing Documentation and Coun-try-by-Country Reporting (Discus-sion Draft) for public consultation purposes. The Discussion Draft can be downloaded under http://www.oecd.org/ctp/transfer-pricing/dis-cussion-draft-transfer-pricing-doc-umentation.htm. The Committee on Fiscal Affairs of the OECD has requested to submit comments on the Discussion Draft by 23. Feb-ruary 2014 due to the background that it is essential to obtain input from stakeholders to advance the work.

The Discussion Draft is part of the ongoing Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project which aims to reduce double non-taxation of multinational enterprises (MNE). On 19 July 2013 the BEPS Action Plan was published which includes under item 13 (Re-examine transfer pricing documentation) the devel-opment of “rules regarding transfer pricing documentation to enhance transparency for tax administra-tion, taking into consideration the compliance costs for business. The rules to be developed will include a requirement that MNE’s provide all relevant governments with needed information on their global alloca-tion of the income, economic activ-ity and taxes paid among countries


Hans-Jörg Wittmann, lawyer


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according to a common template.”

Leaders of the G20 countries publically endorsed the BEPS Ac-tion Plan during their summit in St. Petersburg on 5/6 September 2013 and encouraged timely de-velopment and implementation. In the past the main task was to design a global tax system to pre-vent corporate profits being taxed twice. Now, the focus is to prevent cases where profits are inappropri-ately taxed or where taxable profits are separated from the location of the valuable activities generating the profits. One element of meas-ure to prevent non-taxation is the documentation of transfer prices.

The outcome of the Discussion Draft shall replace the current guidance on transfer pricing documentation as laid down in Chapter V of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations which were adopted in 1995. Although these guidelines and neither the upcom-ing revised guidelines are manda-tory for any member state of the OECD or the taxpayers – the OECD rules shall provide guidelines and recommendations for the respec-tive countries – they will have an important impact on the tax re-porting requirements of domestic taxpayers since it is to be expected that the guidelines will be trans-formed into the countries’ domes-tic legislation or regulations by changing the currently applicable domestic tax law.

The Discussion Draft specifies de-tails of reporting requirements resulting inter alia in the require-ments of listing group-wide data on business activities, financial in-formation and taxes paid in each relevant jurisdiction. The objec-tives for the transfer pricing docu-mentation are:

“to provide tax administrations with the information necessary to conduct an informed transfer pricing risk assessment;

to ensure that taxpayers give appropriate consideration to transfer pricing requirements in establishing prices and oth-er conditions for transactions between associated enterprises and in reporting the income de-rived from such transactions in their tax returns; and

to provide tax administrations with the information that they require in order to conduct an appropriately thorough audit of the transfer pricing practices of entities subject to tax in their jurisdiction.”

By the amended documentation requirements MNEs will bear addi-tional annual compliance burden. Needless to say, the overall princi-ple that any inter-company trans-action is to be assessed against the arm’s length standard remains unaffected.

The key element of the recommen-dations of the OECD for a transfer pricing documentation is that the countries adopt a standardized two-tier approach according to which the documentation consists of a master file containing infor-mation relevant for all MNE group members and a local file for each jurisdiction containing specific in-formation and material relating to the transactions of the local tax-payer.

According to the proposal of the Discussion Draft the master file shall present a complete picture of the global business, financial reporting, debt structure, tax sit-uation and the allocation of the MNE’s income, economic activity and tax payments. The information

on financial and tax positions in-cludes a country-by-country report. This report within the master file would, however, not substitute a detailed transfer pricing analysis of the individual transactions and prices, a functional analysis or comparability analysis.

The master file would essential-ly come in addition to existing country-specific documentation requirements resulting in a higher compliance. The master file has to be prepared in English which would trigger further costs for translation from English to the local language and vice versa. The proposed CbC reporting requirements would fur-thermore go significantly beyond current practice.

The local file for each jurisdic-tion in which the MNE is present is understood as supplement to the master file and shall focus on information relevant to the trans-fer pricing analysis according to which the transfer prices could be assessed as being at arm’s length terms or not.

Also one objective of the OECD is to reduce compliance costs for busi-nesses, the proposal of the Discus-sion Draft would increase the level of information available to the tax authority and the compliance bur-den of MNE. By the measures taken by the OECD one could say, that they rather help the tax authorities rather than businesses.

The Discussion Draft is very much a “work-in-progress” as the intro-duction notes to the draft state. A controversial discussion on the draft is expect which will hopefully result in an appropriate documen-tation requirement which is not as burdensome as the Discussion draft provides for.

The future changes of the domestic

Fabricators have long sought to optimize their Tube and Pipe mills by limiting the need for prod-uct rework, reducing the cost of scrap and increasing weld quality through a variety of means. A new tool has been developed to provide operators with the ability to help with all these tasks at one time: a high dynamic range camera that is able to provide the operator with a clear view of the weld tip and its immediate environment on a Tube or Pipe mill. By using such a cam-era, the operator can ensure that:

The weld tip is properly aligned with the tube seam it is weld-ing.

The weld pool is properly formed during the welding process.

Various material inputs (e.g., welding wire, shielding gas, power levels) are all at ideal levels.

Due to the extremely bright light emitted by an open weld arc (such as found in a TIG, Laser, or Plasma weld process), monitoring the weld-ing process on a Tube or Pipe mill for control or tracking of specific parameters can be a difficult chal-lenge. Typically a weld tip might be as much as 10,000,000 times brighter (or greater than 140 dB Signal to Noise ratio) than the background metal area around it. The most effective way to moni-tor the weld process in real time is to use a camera. However, the image quality from traditional cam-era-based monitoring systems is not sufficient to allow operators to see the weld pool effective-ly enough to make the necessary in-process adjustments, as most cameras today are capable of on-ly 60 dB (about 1,000:1 dynamic range of brightness).

What is needed is a Weld Camera

tax law on transfer pricing docu-mentation to be expected as a con-sequence of the Discussion Draft or the final revised Chapter V of the Guidelines will most likely not be made with retroactive effect, but the new approach may apply in practice even nowadays. In any event, it should be considerable to review the existing transfer pricing documentation and the informa-tion collecting systems available to MNEs. Furthermore, any long term investment decisions shall also consider the BEPS Action Plan and the proposals and implementations within the national tax law.

Hans-Jörg Wittmann, lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) and tax advisor (Steuerberater)

RSM Altavis GmbH Wirtschaftsprue-fungsgesellschaft Steuerberatungs-gesellschaft, Duesseldorf, Germany

About RSM: RSM Altavis GmbH is the German member firm of RSM International, the 7th largest worldwide network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms. RSM International is encompassing over 100 countries, nearly 700 offices and 32,000 people internationally. The network’s total fee income is US$3.7 billion.


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RSM Altavis GmbH

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Tel.: +49 211 30 143 0 Fax: +49 211 30 143 143

hans-joerg.wittmann@ rsm-altavis.de www.rsm-altavis.de

Remote monitoring of open arc weld processes on tube and pipe mills

Xiris Automation Inc. – Cameron Serles

Weld Camera Image of TIG Weld on Copper Tube


Guest Editorial

that is able to see both the very bright light source of a weld arc as well as the neighboring dark are-as of the background such as the parent material and the weld pool. Ideally, the viewing camera would incorporate an electronic means to create a High Dynamic Range image right in the camera sensor, removing unnecessary light wave-lengths and pixel saturation to be able to clearly see the detail of the weld tip as well as its darker envi-ronment.

Specific Quality Issues Ad-dressed by Using a Remote Weld Camera1. Monitoring Weld Seam-to-

Torch Alignment:

a. Ensuring that the weld seam is properly aligned with the weld torch or weld cone will result in a better weld

Alignment of weld to torch

b. Ensuring that the fit-up of the

two sides of the seam are prop-erly matched and lined up.

Mismatch of fit-up

2. Monitoring Quality of the Weld Tip (GTAW/TIG welding processes):

a. Build-up of dross on the weld tip. Build-up could cause changes in how the arc will flow out of the tip, potentially

changing the angle and posi-tion of the weld as well as the amount of energy flowing into the process.

b. Degradation of the tip. The weld tip could lose materi-al over time by “burning up”, causing changes in the flow of energy to the material being welded.

c. Height of the tungsten tip to the surface being welded – known as the “resistance gap” or gap height between tip and welded surface will affect the current and voltage needed to maintain a proper welding arc

d. In welding certain exotic metals such as Titanium, monitoring the color of the weld arc when welding can indicate tungsten tip problems or changes in the shielding gas.

3. Monitor the Condition of the Weld Pool for:

a. Detection of “Cold” weld con-ditions – When the weld is not properly formed because the parent material did not fully melt.

b. Detection of Freeze line (or center line crack) – Lines that appear during solidification of the weld pool

c. Detection of Undercut – When melted parent material has been drawn into the weld and not allowed to wet back proper-ly because of insufficient heat or material flow

d. Detection of Impurities – Con-firm that the surface of the molten pool and the immedi-ate surrounding parent metal is kept clean of impurities

e. Weld Tip Transitions – For mills with multiple weld heads

Monitoring Quality of Weld Tip

Freeze Line/Center Line of Weld

Weld Undercut

mounted in tandem along the weld bead to weld extra thick tube and pipe material, it is important to monitor the con-dition of the weld pool as it transitions from one weld tip to the next one

4. Monitor Keyhole of the Weld for:

a. Correct flow of molten material around the keyhole, out of the heat affected zone and into the weld pool.

b. Shape of keyhole in the center of the weld

5. Monitor Shielding Gas for:

a. Sufficient coverage around the electrode

b. Improper flow of gas around heat affected zone

What to look for in a Real Time Monitoring CameraThe best Real Time Weld Monitoring Cameras offer fabricators the abili-ty to see a number of features in their welding process with better clarity than ever before, providing numerous productivity, quality and health and safety benefits. When choosing a Weld Monitoring Cam-era, fabricators should look for a variety of features including:

High Dynamic Range imaging with range of 140+ db for supe-rior images

Integrated lighting to provide extra illumination when no weld is present

Simple overlay graphics to guide the operator

Image focus and zoom capabil-ities

Video Recording for off line re-view of the welding process.

Rugged enclosure for harsh welding environments

Ability to record video

ConclusionThe imaging challenges presented by Tube and Pipe mills necessitate the use of advanced camera sys-tem technology to get images with high-enough quality to be useful in remote monitoring of welding pro-cesses such as TIG, Laser, or Plas-ma. Tube and pipe fabricators can take real steps towards improving the profitability and efficiency of their weld processes using moni-toring with a Weld Camera.


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Molten Material Flowing out of Key-hole

TIG Welding Showing Electrode Tip and Shielding Gas

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German Steel Tube Association (Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahlrohre e.V.) represents the interests of the German steel tube industry vis a vis politics, other branches of the economy as well as the gener-al public sector. Its members rep-resent 85% of German steel tube production. The association was created in 2009 following a merger of the up to this time three inde-pendent German steel tube asso-ciations: “Fachvereinigung Präzi-sionsrohrwerke”, representing the interests of manufacturers of cold drawn tubes, “Stahlrohrverband”, representing mainly the interests of seamless hot finished pipe and some welded pipe producers and “Verband der freien Rohrwerke”, an association of welded pipe produc-ers without integrated steel base. Already back in 1995 Wirtschafts-vereinigung Stahlrohre was cre-ated as a kind of holding of the then three independent German steel tube associations, all based in Düsseldorf. Its main purpose was the combined representation of the three associations interests in common subjects, especially in trade related political questions. The legend of the three associa-tions partly is going back very far. For example Fachvereinigung Präzi-sionsrohrwerke e.V. celebrated its 100 year anniversary in 2007.

Today, the association is chaired by Andreas Denker, Managing Di-rector of the Industry Division of Vallourec Deutschland GmbH. Frank Harms is the Managing Director of

the association. Main tasks and ob-jectives of Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahlrohre e.V. are as follows:

Economic AffairsWirtschaftsvereinigung Stahlrohre e.V. represents the interests of its members vis a vis national and international governmental bod-ies as well as other public institu-tions. This relates especially to the EU-Commission in Bruxelles as well as the German government.

International CooperationWirtschaftsvereinigung Stahlrohre e.V. represents the German interests within the European Steel Tube As-sociation (ESTA). Within this frame the association is responsible for tasks of common interest, especial-ly statistics.

Public AffairsOn subjects exceeding the interest or the responsibility of an individ-ual member Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahlrohre e.V. is the partner to contact for other associations, in-stitutions or companies as well as for media and the general public.

ServicesWirtschaftsvereinigung Stahlrohre e.V. supports its members mani-fold, for example in questions con-cerning standards, logistics or the environment. It plays a central role in collecting and evaluating data on the steel tube market worldwide and the economic development of end user branches for steel tube applications.

Regarding the steel tube market, figures for the first three quarters

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2013 are showing a further production growth of the world tube market, mainly driven again by the growth of the Chinese steel tube industry. CIS al-so performed well due to a strong production of welded pipes with diameters above 16 inch. EU markets slowed down again due to weak demand especially in South Europe. In Germany production was significantly lower due to the extraordinary weakness of the demand for line pipe with diame-ters above 16 inch.

Estimations for the complete year 2013 predict a further growth of global steel tube production to a new all-time high of 154 billion tons. Main driv-er will be China again.

German Steel Tube Market saw an unsatisfying year. Especially a weak line pipe market in the EU lead to low production figures in the welded tube sector. Line pipe production remains the steel tube sector with the lowest capacity utilization in the EU by far.

A slight recovery of the EU market and a further strength gaining US Market, combined with stead-ily growing demand in China, causes an optimistic mood for the world tube market in the current year. Especially worldwide demand for oil and gas should increase further on and will lead to grow-ing steel tube demand.

Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl-rohre e.V.

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World steel tube production

ITAtube Journal No1/March 2014

Global steel tube production reach-es 115,8 million tons in the first three quarters of the year 2013, an increase of 3,0%.

A significant increase of production for all kind of tubes is in China, 7,4 % in total, the significant de-crease in Europe, -8,3%. Our fore-cast for the whole year 2013 is that with 154 million metric tons, World Steel Tube Production will climb to a new all-time-high in 2013. Main driver will be again the outstand-

ing growth of steel tube production in China, leading the Chinese pro-ducers to a market share of about 52% of the world production. Steel Tube Production in the rest of the world will drop slightly to 74 mil-lion metric tons. EU-production will be reduced, due to lower demand in Europe and especially because of a lack in linepipe projects, to 12.6 million tons. German steel tube pro-duction will be lower, too, reaching 2.7 million tons.

Nevertheless, prospects are cau-tiously optimistic for the next year. Worldwide demand for oil and gas should increase further on and will lead to growing steel tube demand. Given that the financial and debt crisis will not impact the markets again, steel tube industry should benefit from an upturn of Global and European economy.

Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahlrohre e.V.

Markets

seamless tubes welded tubes <406 welded tubes >406 welded tubes sum TOTALRegion/country Q I-III Q I-III Change Q I-III Q I-III Change Q I-III Q I-III Change Q I-III Q I-III Change Q I-III Q I-III Change 2013 2012 % 2013 2012 % 2013 2012 % 2013 2012 % 2013 2012 %

Germany 991 1,039 -4.6 607 684 -11.3 437 634 -31.1 1,044 1.318 -20.8 2,035 2,357 -13.7

EU (+ Germany) 3,176 3,437 -7.6 5,083 5,272 -3.6 1,080 1,479 -27.0 6,163 6,751 -8.7 9,339 10,188 -8.3

USA 1,928 2,040 -5.5 6,166 6,407 -3.8 1,232 842 46.3 7,398 7,249 2.1 9,326 9,289 0.4

Japan 1,245 1,381 -9.8 2,682 2,569 4.4 1,219 1,260 -3.3 3,901 3,829 1.9 5,146 5,210 -1.2

CIS 3,172 3,264 -2.8 4,550 4,109 10.7 1,972 1,994 -1.1 6,522 6,103 6.9 9,694 9,367 3.5

India 600 600 0.0 1,800 900 100.0 825 1,725 -52.2 2,625 2,625 0.0 3,225 3,225 0.0

China 22,179 20,518 8.1 31,389 29,079 7.9 6,450 6,300 2.4 37,839 35,379 7.0 60,018 55,897 7.4

Other 1,947 2,036 -4.4 13,300 13,404 -0,8 3,783 3,834 -1.3 17,083 17,238 -0.9 19,031 19,274 -1.3

World 34,247 33,276 2.9 64,970 61,740 5.2 16,561 17,434 -5.0 81,531 79,174 3.0 115,779 112,450 3.0figures include estimations

120,000110,000100,00090,00080,00070,00060,00050,00040,00030,00020,00010,000

Germany EU+Germany USA Japan CIS India China Other World

Total in Tto.

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Markets

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20,000

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-9.8 0.0 2.9-2.8-5.5-4.6 -7.6 8.1 -4.4

60,00055,00050,00045,00040,00035,00030,00025,00020,00015,00010,0005,0001,000

Welded tubes <406 in Tto.

Qua

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-3.87,9

-3.6

4.4 100 5.210.7-3.8-11.3 -3.6 7.9 -0.8

17,00016,00015,00014,00013,00012,00011,00010,0009,0008,0007,0006,0005,0004,0003,0002,0001,000

Welded tubes >406 in Tto.

Qua

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1.-3.

/201

2

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1.-3.

/201

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-31.1 -27.0 46.3 -3.3 -1.1 -52.2 2.4 -1.3 -5.0

80,00075,00070,00065,00060,00055,00050,00045,00040,00035,00030,00025,00020,00015,00010,0005,000

1,000

Welded tubes sum in Tto.

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-20.8 -8.7 2.1 1.9 6.9 0.0 7.0 -0.9 3.0

Diary of world class tube eventsEvents for Business, Technology, Education and Networking

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ITATUBE No1/March 2014 Journal · ITAtube Journal No1/March 2014 5 Editorial Dear Member I am very pleased to present this very special first edition of the ITAtube Journal 2014,