TPT March 2009

TUBE RUSS I A 2009

Specialities include quench and temper lines, annealing furnaces, and heat treatment solutions for seams and welds. PMC Colinet – USA Website : www.pmc-colinet.com

cutting machines. The company’s main customers are seamless tube mills and automotive/tube processing companies. Seamless tube mills are discovering an increasing number of advantages to the automatic material flow in cold finishing lines, with overall material tracking and optimization process. The tube optimizing software in tube finishing lines can help to reduce the material scrap by up to 3 per cent. In addition, precise straightening of tubes up to the ends is an advantage of the new straightening lines and increases the yield of the tube mills. In particular the east European market is replacing old equipment with new finishing lines. Integrated NDT testing lines, which are interfaced in the material flow and in the data communication in front of the cut- off line, make individual automatic tube treatment very easy. The bad ends and necessary production/fixed length can be optimized and cut according to the results from the testing section. Variable tube positioning allows individual tube handling and saves material. Tool costs for cutting can be saved due to the constant cutting process of the rotary cut-

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PMC Colinet – Belgium Email : sales@colinet.be

Reika GmbH & Co KG Germany

Reika offers a range of straightening machines, tube finishing systems and tube cutting machines. The company has recently announced a new sales record of €30 million for 2008. For 2009, Reika’s complete production capability is sold out due to big orders from Vallourec & Mannesmann, Tenaris, Interpipe, Benteler, and Tubos Reunidos. The company has successfully installed a large number of new straightening machines, tube finishing systems and tube

off machines, which are much more efficient in comparison with carbide saws with interrupted cut and long blade change times. At this year’s Tube Russia, Reika will show the advantages of its new finishing line in regards to cost saving and quality improvement. The finishing lines still operating on many tube mills are very labour intensive. They often lack the automatic material handling (with  Reika offers the full scope of cold tube finishing systems

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