TPT March 2014

March/April 2014 Vol 27 No 2

The March Issue Welcome to the latest issue of Tube & Pipe Technology magazine. Once again the time for the entire industry to gather together in Düsseldorf is upon us. Can it really have been two years since the last show? I hope this special issue of the magazine and its 224 pages will prove to be an invaluable guide while you are attending. Inside you will find a full list of exhibitors and their stand

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numbers as well as all the latest news on the tube and pipe technology industry. We also have in-depth information on many of the machines and products that are being exhibited in our Düsseldorf Exhibitor Section, which starts on page 154. The magazine is an official media partner of the Tube show and is being distributed in several locations so I hope you find it an informative read. We will be in the main entrance hall and I will also be based in Hall 4, Stand B29 all week. With 1,179 exhibiting companies, Tube once again broke its exhibitor record in 2012 (and has grown eight-fold since the first show in 1988). Last time 2,600 extra visitors attended too so 2014 should be equally spectacular. For the May issue of TPT we have features on bending and endforming, software and control systems and wide diameter tube production equipment. Contact me at rory@intras.co.uk It has developed the most reliable and innovative technologies and offers a range of expert service, from the layout of a facility to revamping services, including the design, manufacture and retrofit of mechanical, thermal, tube and pipe finishing equipment and the supply of surface treatment technologies. Fives employs 1,200 people dedicated to steel applications, with the capacity to run projects everywhere. They partner with steelmakers to help them meet the quality requirements they want to reach, also for the sectors with the most demanding steel applications. Fives is an industrial engineering group with a heritage of over 200 years of engineering excellence and expertise. Fives provides process equipment, production lines and turnkey plants for the biggest global players in the aluminium, steel, glass, automotive, logistics, aerospace, cement and energy sector in both developing and developed countries. In all these sectors, Fives designs and manufactures equipment and innovative solutions, which better anticipate and meet the needs of its customers in terms of performance, quality, safety and respect for the environment. As of Spring 2014, the entire Fives o er dedicated to the steel industrywill appear under a unique brand name: Fives. For the steel industry, Fives proposes themost reliable& innovative technologies in the eld ofmechanical, thermal, tube& pipe mills& nishing equipment and the supply of surface treatment technologies. www. vesgroup.com Fives’o er for tubeandpipe, longandflatproduct industries includes technologiesandsolutionssuchasBronxstraighteners,AbbeyandOTO tube&pipemills,andTaylor-Wilsonfinishingequipment. ultimatemachines ultimate factory Fives,abiggerchoice thanyou think… The international magazine for the tube & pipe industries VOL27 NO2 US$33 MARCH 2014 On the cover . . . In Steel, Fives’ goal is to help steelmakers enhan c e t he i r pe r f o rman c e and t he subsequent competitiveness.

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