TPT July 2008

I ndustry N ews

Events News in Brief…

The China Steel Trade Expo 2008 (www.metal1986.com) will take place inShanghai from21-23 August, 2008. The event will play host to 1,100 exhibition stands

events news in brief…

BLM Group UK Ltd (www. blmgroup.com), UK, recently staged a successful 5-day in-house event. InTube drew visitors from across the

Roll-Kraft Ltd (www.roll-kraft. com), USA, has recently hosted several training seminars in Canada, detailing the best techniques for producing

and around 30,000 visitors. Exhibit areas will include construction, oil and shipping. For the first time, the show will feature sheet, tube, profiles, wire and bar products.

UK, who were able to view a number of machines including several models of all- electric bending and forming machines (eg E-Turn and E-Bend). A similar event for BLM’s cutting and profiling technology is being planned for next year.

roll formed products and tube and pipe. Attendees were also invited to visit the Roll- Kraft Ltd facility in Woodbridge, Ontario. Information on future seminars, including onsite seminars, is available on the company’s website.

The 4 th Shanghai international casting, forging, heating & furnace expo (www.cftp.com. cn) will be staged from 21-23 August 2008. The last event in

2007 received 200 casting companies from 20 countries. Exhibits will include foundry machinery, furnaces, surface treatment, quality castings, and heat treatment.

The 5 th China International Steel Congress (www. steelcongress.com) took place from 2-4 June 2008 in Shanghai, China. Co-organised

The 12 th Medtec (www.cancom. com), the world’s largest show for medical technology and products, took place in Stuttgart from 11-13 March 2008. The

Surfex 2008 (www.surfex2008. net) – the largest and most comprehensive UK exhibition for surface coatings, printing inks, adhesives, corrosion and

by the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) and the Metallurgical Council of CCPIT (MC-CCPIT), the event took place alongside the Metal+Metallurgy China 2008 Expo and China International Steel Mill Rolls Conference (CISMRC 2008).

event welcomed 635 exhibitors from 24 countries, which is a year-on-year increase of 14 per cent, while over 9,100 visitors were in attendance. The event, organised by Canon Communications, was accompanied by a three-day conference. The next Medtec will take place from 3-5 March in 2009.

construction chemicals – welcomed 180 exhibitors from 3-4 June 2008. The event is organised by Surfex Ltd and sponsored by Oil and Colour Chemists’ Association.

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Business News in Brief…

business news in brief…

Outokumpu Copper BCZ SA , Belgium, and Outokumpu Copper SA , Spain, have been acquired (100 per cent) by Alfonso Ortega and a management team, with assistance from Lead Business Holdings SL. The joint turnover of the two companies, active in European sanitary and industrial copper tube markets, exceeded €300 million in 2007. The new company includes the production units at Bilbao and Liege, and an extensive network across Europe. Interpipe (www.interpipe.biz ), Ukraine, aims to increase tube production at its Niko Tube mill with investment of US$6.3mn. The new project willl increase production by 30,000t/annum for API 5CT and GOST 633-80 tubing with upset ends (Ø 60.3 to 89mm). The new equipment includes a Bronx/Taylor-Wilson 5-roll straightening press (6CR11), intended for straightening pipes from Ø 60-139mm with wall thickness from 2-15mm. TheKorean distributor of HuntingdonFusionTechniques (www.huntingdonfusion. com), UK, has secured significant orders for specialist ancillary products to facilitate fabrication of LNG terminal pipework and vessels in the area. This follows on from UK success with supply to the massive Milford Haven gas pipeline project and Wolf Maschinenbau AG (www.wolf-maschinenbau.de) has moved to new facilities at Wilhelm Maybach Straße 2 in Brackenheim (D-74336), Germany. The new 1,500m 2 building offers more space to accommodate the company’s growth and further expansion. Since 1991, the company has been producing rotary table transfer and linear type machines (RTM and LTM) for tube production, together with indexing table transfer machines (TSM 280). several other LNG installations.

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