TPT July 2007

Industry News

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Van Leeuwen Wheeler ( www. v an l eeuwen . c om) has announced plans for a major expansion at its Middlesbrough, UK

Roll-Kraft (www.roll-kraft. com), USA, has ordered a new high-speed, high- precision machining centre. This vertical milling

Socotherm Americas , a subsidiary of Socotherm ( www. s o c o t h e r m . c om ) , Italy, has been awarded a new onshore contract in

warehouse. This development will see this warehouse becoming a distribution hub for VLW’s UK operations. It will result in a 40 per cent increase in its warehousing capacity and include increased cutting capacity and expanded product ranges.

machine will be installed at the company’s headquarters plant in the 3 rd quarter of 2007. The new machine will have the latest innovations for easier and safer operation and will increase production capacity. Roll- Kraft currently has 36 CNC machines on the shop floor. Order your subscription online @:

Venezuela for the connection of pipelines for the vehicle natural gas (VNG) network of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). The US$2.4mn contract will involve the application of a special 3-layer HDP anticorrosion coating (Plastikote ® ) on almost 420km of 4.5" diameter pipes, supplied by the Tenaris pipe mill in Campana.

Jetcam International (www. jetcam.com) and Finn-Power Oy (www.finn-power.com) have announced a global agreement, whereby Jetcam

Expert CAD/CAM software will be offered with Finn-Power CNC punching and laser machines.

Trumpf (www.trumpf. de), Germany, will further expand its headquarters in Ditzingen, with completion set for mid-2009. The size

of the core factory will increase by one- third, in addition to the construction of a new development centre for machine tools and expansion of the existing laser factory.

The go-ahead has been given for Essar Vietnam Steel Corp’s new hot strip mill plant, the result of a joint venture between Essar

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