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Factory. In addition, TMK operates two companies in Romania – the Artrom Pipe Factory and the Resita Metallurgical Factory. TMK is an integrated holding company that also includes a trading house for Russian and CIS sales, TMK Global AG for international exports, and the TMK- Transportation company. TMK’s head office is in Moscow with affiliate offices, including those of the trading house, located in Switzerland, USA, Azerbaijan, China, Kazakhstan and Germany.

SMS Demag AG is a world leader in the construction of plants for the steel, aluminium and copper industries. The company offers a complete process chain extending from crude iron production right through steelmaking, continuous casting, rolling mill and tubemaking technologies, up to processing and finishing lines for hot and cold strip. Within the structure of SMS Demag AG, SMS Meer was established from the former ‘Tube and Copper Plants’ business unit of Mannesmann Demag Metallurgy. In 2001, the ‘Long Product Rolling Mills Division’ was integrated into SMS Meer. As part of a reorganisation in 2003, SMS Meer became part of the ‘Tube, Long Product and Forging Technology’ business area of the SMS Group. The product range of SMS Meer essentially consists of: manufacturing plants and automated finishing systems for seamless and welded steel tubes (diameters from 4mm to 1,800mm), hydraulic presses such as open-die forging presses and powder presses, and casting and rolling plants for sections, wire rod and bar steel. This is in addition to casting and rolling plants for extrusion billets, strips, wire rod, anodes and tubes made from non- ferrous and precious metals, plants for the production and further processing of aluminium billets and slabs as well as plants for the recycling of aluminium. Website : www.sms-meer.com

uniform and dull iridescent film on the inside and outside surface as prescribed by ASTM standards. Such film protects the tubes, thus assuring a long life for products such as heat exchangers. Sitindustrie can also supply a wide range of mechanical components (cast steel products, industrial valves and gearboxes), and stainless steel structures for the construction industry. Website : www.sitindustrie.com  Sitindustrie will exhibit its range of stainless steel and copper alloy tubes 

The company’s yearly production capacity is circa 3.7 million tons of pipe. Their products meet international standards including API, ASTM and EN/DIN, with quality control systems approved by ISO 9001 and API Spec Q1 standards. TMK – Russia Website: www.tmk-group.com TMK Global – Switzerland Fax : +41 43 888 73 01  TMK’s annual production capacity is 3.7 million tons of pipe

Tube & Pipe Technology is the international trade magazine for the tube and pipe industries, published six times a year in the English language. Covering the production, processing and utilisation of tube and pipe, each issue provides coverage of essential industry news, personnel changes and technology and product updates. The magazine includes regular topical columns such as ‘From the Americas’ – an economic and industry report on North and South America, a variety of technical features, and in-depth articles highlighting the latest scientific information and manufacturing solutions.

TMK is a leading Russian producer of pipes used in the oil drilling sector, the chemical and petroleum industry, energy and construction companies, machine-building factories and auto manufacturers. The company is an umbrella organisation for the four largest pipe manufacturers in Russia: the Volzhsky Pipe Factory, the Seversky Pipe Company, the Sinarsky Pipe Factory and the Taganirogsky Metallurgical

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