TPT March 2007

Industry News

steel tube, construction tube, and composite steel tube. A range of steel tube equipment will also be on display, including welding equipment, inspection equipment, and surface engineering technology. Roll-Kraft (www.roll-kraft.com), USA, recently completed a series of tube/ pipe and rollforming seminars at their headquarters facility in Mentor, OH. The seminars ran over a two-day period, with tube and pipe topics including integrity and alignment of the mill, various setup preparations, and tooling maintenance. Rollforming topics included roll design, calculating strip width, pass layouts, setups, and downhill forming. CIPE (www.cipe.com.cn), the 7 th China international exhibition on equipment for pipeline, oil and gas storage/transportation, will be staged at the Beijing Exhibition Centre, China, from 3-5 April 2007. The event will include CIOOE – the 4 th China international offshore oil and gas exhibition; and CIPPE – the 7th China international petroleum and petrochemical technology and equipment exhibition. ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖

Events News in Brief…

events news in brief…

A leading annual show for industrial technology, Hannover Messe 2007 (www. hannovermesse.de) will be staged from 16-20 April 2007 in Hannover, Germany. Established for sixty years, the event features a host of mini-shows including Pipeline Technology, Energy, ComVac, Industrial Automation, MDA (Motion, Drive & Automation), Digital Factory, Surface Technology, and MicroTechnology. CityPipe 2007 (www.citypipe.ru), the 2 nd international trade fair and conference for municipal infrastructure piping systems, will take place from 29 May to 1 June 2007 at the Crocus Expo Centre in Moscow, Russia. Organised by Sibico, the exhibition is geared towards construction, diagnostics, repair and operation of piping systems. ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖

2007. The event – which features a special exhibition for plate metal, tube, bar, wire and metal processing – will take place at the Guangzhou International convention and exhibition centre in Guangzhou, China. Organisers Julang Exhibition Co Ltd expect high numbers of visitors to attend from over 25 countries and regions. Isgatec (www.isgatec.com), the 5 th specialised exhibition for sealing and bonding technology, will be held in Nuremberg, Germany from 27-29 March 2007. Exhibits will include dynamic sealing systems, shaft seals, hydraulic/pneumatic seals, chemically engineered seals, industrial adhesives, and bellows/profiles. The Shanghai Steel Tube Expo (www. gangguan-expo.com) will take place from 10-12 May 2007 at the Intex Shanghai & Shanghai Mart in Shanghai, China. Exhibits will include steel tube products such as seamless steel tube, welded pipe, stainless ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖

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The 8th China (Guangzhou) international metal and metallurgy exhibition (www. julang.com.cn) will return from 21-24 June

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