TPT May 2008

I ndustry N ews

Business News in Brief…

Sitindustrie Group (www. sitindustrie.com), Italy, with its Swiss parent company Zwahlen & Mayr , has won an order to supply VSA

business news in brief…

ChTPZ (www. chtpz-group.ru) companies – Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant (ChTPZ), Russia, and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant Group

Peter Holzrichter GmbH (www.holzrichter-stahl.de), Germany, has announced expansion plans with the opening of a third warehouse

Consortium (Veolia Water, Saipem and Al Jaber), with 230t of high corrosion resistance 18m long welded stainless steel tubes. These tubes will be used for the construction of 3 evaporators for Shell’s ‘Pearl gas to liquid’ project in Qatar – which is claimed to be the largest gas to liquid (GTL) plant in the world.

(PNTZ) – shipped 256.8 thousand tonnes of pipe products to customers in January and February 2008, a decrease of 14 per cent compared to the same period in 2007. According to the company, there was higher market activity in the same period in 2007 due to the implementation of large pipeline projects bymajor domestic oil companies. ChTPZGroup expects a slight decline in output in 2008. www.read-tpt.com Read this magazine online @:

in Spring 2008. This will increase the company’s capacity at existing warehouses in Wuppertal and Herdecke. With a range that includes tube, strip and coil, Holzrichter achieved a 2007 turnover of about €212 million.

DSM (www. dsmdesotech.com), a leader in UV-curable coatings, has announced the acquisition of Polymeric Processes Inc Desotech

Polypipe (www.polypipe.com), UK, has established a new sector-focussedteam–Polypipe Industrial – to concentrate on providing plastic piping systems

(www.polymericprocesses.com), USA, an innovative producer of UV-curable coatings for tube and pipe. This acquisition accelerates the efforts of Desotech’s UVentionT group, which develops innovative custom UV-curable materials for select US and European markets. “The tube and pipe industry is a fast-growing market for both clear and colour UV coatings,” says UVention market platform manager, Dr Anthony Toussaint.

for industrial applications. Polypipe Industrial will be part of the existing Polypipe Terrain business and will offer a wide variety of piping products and solutions for the industrial market (ie the Effast range of PVCu and ABS plastic piping systems). These are backed by a full technical and support service.

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