TPI November 2020

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UKF Stainless to exhibit latest innovations at rearranged Tube Düsseldorf exhibition

UKF Stainless will once again be exhibiting at Tube Düsseldorf in December. Together with its group companies, The Joint Perforating Co, Ferrari Stainless & Alloys and Stainless Metals & Alloys, it will be exhibiting in hall 8, stand number A55. Tube Düsseldorf 2020 is the world’s leading exhibition for the tube industry and the most important showcase for all companies manufacturing, processing and using tubes. UKF Stainless is proud to have exhibited at Tube Düsseldorf since 1996 and has always found the trade fair a perfect place to do business. UKF Stainless will be showcasing its extensive range of high-quality products as well as its dedicated team of staff. The company was delighted with its involvement at Tube Düsseldorf in 2018 – being one of 2,683 exhibitors from 67 countries at the previous event.

UKF Stainless will be welcoming guests from 7 to 11 December 2020 and are looking forward to another successful event. Phil Morris, group chairman, said: “Many employees from each group will be in attendance and we will be pleased to meet with current customers as well as hopefully prospective customers & suppliers. “We will be showcasing the wide range of products and services that we offer as a group, which will also include the products that are achievable on our newly acquired LT5 tube laser. “The trade fair offers tubes made of various materials as a major part of the show, and this is where UKF Stainless Ltd come into its own.” As a major stockholder of stainless steel, welded and seamless tube, the exhibition is perfect for the company.

“The benefits of implementing a single integrated software solution at all TMK production sites include harmonisation of MES and planning business processes and user interfaces at all plants, which allows for reduced implementation costs and time and supports centralised maintenance and lower total cost of ownership. “We are looking forward to a successful project together,” said Harald Henning, PSI Metals director of the strategy committee. The project is being implemented as part of TMK’s Digital Production program and is aimed at improving the efficiency and quality of the company’s system for operational management of production and production processes. TMK www.tmk-group.com Tube Düsseldorf attracts international experts, specialists, innovators and world market leading tube companies. UKF itself utilises innovative technologies such as the new LT5 Tube Laser – a fibre laser generator, which offers precision and cost savings to their customers. UKF’s innovative laser cutter is equipped with a versatile and advanced IPG fibre laser that is capable of processing mild steel, as well as specialised materials such as aluminium, stainless, copper and brass. The machine also delivers dramatic improvements in energy efficiency and is eco-friendly as a result. UKF Stainless holds one of the UK’s most complete stocks of welded stainless- steel tube and pipe. This includes bars, sections, sheet and plate to complete an extensive product offering, with additional products also supplied. UKF Stainless www.ukfstainless.co.uk

TMK digitises its tube production processes TMK, a global manufacturer and supplier of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry, has completed diagnostics of its Russian division’s facilities in preparation for a project to automate its operational management system, including its production planning and manufacturing execution system. The final phase will see the new system applied across all TMK production facilities.

on the market, orders and existing constraints. Combined with the new MES system, it will provide us with significant advantages to achieve TMK’s strategic goals, including expanding its technological leadership in the industry, increasing economic efficiency and maximising its returns on investments into modernising production facilities.” During the project’s first phase, TMK will re-engineer and unify operational production management processes across all of its plants. The second phase will see a rollout of the new system at pilot divisions of TMK’s Volzhsky pipe plant, Seversky pipe plant, Sinarsky pipe plant and Taganrog metallurgical plant.

An integrated solution will be designed and rolled out based on the PSImetals product by German metallurgy software developer PSI under a respective agree- ment signed between PSI and TMK in February 2020. The solution will include the PSImetals Scheduling, PSImetals Flow and Order Planning, PSImetals Pro- duction, Quality and Logistics modules. Vyacheslav Popkov, TMK’s first deputy CEO and chief engineer, said: “A unified planning system covering production, sales and operations will provide TMK with flexibility in a rapidly changing market, continuous planning capabilities as well as rapid access to up-to-date information

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