TPT January 2016

Industry News

Tube Developments celebrates 50 years in business

steel pipe and high yield tubulars has seen it working on complex projects around the world, including the petrochemical, offshore/onshore oil, and construction industries. Tube Developments has an extensive customer base, and in 2013 received recognition, at a presentation ceremony in London, for its successful supply of the structural tubulars on the Jasmine Project in the central North Sea. Following its vendor approval status for many of the leading oil and gas contractors, some of which include Saipem, Technip and Saudi Aramco, 2014 saw both Qatar Petroleum and Oman Oil & Gas Industry’s Joint Supplier Registration System added to the list of registered vendor approvals. The company’s QA/QC procedures and manuals are assessed and approved by each customer prior to achieving this type of status.

it quickly developed a reputation for quality, reliability and value, and this allowed it to establish itself in the international markets covering Europe, Australia, USA, Africa, India, the Middle East and Asia. The company still operates with the same principles and commitment to quality and service that the current chairman and founder, John Fraser,

FOUNDED in 1965, Tube Developments Ltd has become one of the largest steel tube stockholders in Europe, and is now celebrating 50 years in business. The company’s initial aim was to provide an immediate stock supply of steel tube throughout Scotland and the North of England, servicing the shipbuilding and heavy engineering industries. The company states that

envisaged when he created the company. Tube D e v e l o p m e n t s operates from modern premises near Glasgow, UK, and has at any one time thousands of tonnes of carbon steel pipe and tubulars in covered and controlled warehouses. The company’s reputation for supplying carbon

Tube Developments Ltd – UK Email: info@tubedev.com Website: www.tubedev.com

Topsides being added to Chevron Big Foot in Texas, USA, prior to starting in the Gulf of Mexico in 2014

Ideal Welding Systems names new president/GM

markets and is a first point of contact,” added Max Clemens Jungeblodt, managing director. Mr Kloeckner is a married father of two children and speaks English, German, Portuguese and Spanish fluently. Established in 1995, Ideal Welding Systems is responsible for sales and service of the German Ideal brand of automated wire and sheet metal equipment. Since 1923, Ideal has produced auto- mated machinery for the wire and sheet metal industry worldwide, including laser welding and mesh welders, and is a leader in automated band saw welders. IDEAL-Welding Systems LP – USA Email: christian@idealweld.com Website: www.idealweld.com

international experience in the welding industry, which includes sales of large welding machines and equipment, as well as marketing and customer service.

IDEAL Welding Systems LP, subsidiary of Ideal-Werk, Lippstadt, Germany, has announced the appointment of Christian Kloeckner as president/GM. He brings more than 20 years of solid

“We believe he will help shape our leading position in the market of resistance and laser welding,” noted Dorothee Jungeblodt, managing director of Ideal-Werk in Lippstadt, where the headquarters are located. “His professionalism and proven dedication are great assets to Ideal Welding Systems LP where he oversees the US and Canadian

Christian Kloeckner

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