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2007 was held in September at the Palace of Culture Metallurgists in the industrial city of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Titled Tube Ukraine International 2007, the conference attracted a total of 69 papers which were presented in two conference rooms over two days. Joint organiser of Tube Ukraine International – which attracted 230 delegates – was the Ukrainian tube association, Ukrtruboprom. Complementing the conference were 24 tabletop exhibits, highly informative plant tours and a wonderful social event for all participants. Amongst event sponsors were major tube companies Centravis (formerly UVIS) and Interpipe. The non-ferrous sector was not forgotten in the ITA’s 2007 technical programme, with a conference taking place during the new wire/Tube Southeast Asia exhibition in October. Titled Non Ferrous Bangkok, eleven speakers presented thirteen papers to an audience of around fifty delegates. International Tube Association – UK

ITA delivers on ambitious 2007 technical programme

The International Tube Association celebrated an incredible year in 2007 with an extensive programme of technical conferences, with no less than four technical events either organised or co-organised by the ITA. Every two years the ITA holds a major international conference with past events taking place in such illustrious

venues as Prague, Veracruz (Mexico), Bilbao, Toronto, Goa and Beijing. The first event, co-organised with the Roll Forming Research Committee of the Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity, attracted 180 participants to Nagoya University, Japan in June.

fi Tube Ukraine 2007, the ITA’s major conference of the year, was held at the Palace of Culture Metallurgists in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

In late August 2007 another joint event, Pipe & Tube Houston 07, took place in Houston, Texas with 117 delegates. This unique collaboration – between the ITA and the American based Tube & Pipe Association International (TPA) – was reportedly the best conference ever held by the ITA in North America.

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