TPT May 2011

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Yokohama Tube & Pipe 2011 Symposium

ONE of the International Tube Association’s most acclaimed technical events in recent years, Nagoya Tube 2007, was a collaborative symposium, organised jointly by the Association and the Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity (JSTP). After a gap of four years the two organisations will work together again on another symposium in Yokohama, Japan. The JSTP will be celebrating its 50 th anniversary during this period and the Yokohama event will be a major feature of the celebrations. Technical sessions will be held in the Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center over two days on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 June 2011. 15 June will be devoted to plant tours. Professor Manabu Kiuchi, honorary life president emeritus of the ITA and JSTP board member, leads the organising team, supported by other JSTP colleagues as well as by the ITA’s Asia Pacific Management Board (APMB), which is headed by ITA chairman Mr Tsutomu Nakata.

A number of core themes have been set as the background to the technical sessions: • Emerging technologies for innovative tube and pipe manufacturing • Leading edge core competency in tube/ pipe manufacturing • Advanced laser technologies for high performance tube and pipe processing • Robotic technologies for productive tube and pipe manufacturing • Evolution of high strength steels for tubes and pipes, present and future • High functional tube and pipe for drastic energy saving and CO 2 reduction The technical papers will include a number from academic and research institutions in Japan, from major Japanese producers and equipment suppliers as well as from suppliers of leading technology from around the world. In addition there are several keynote papers from specially invited speakers. Table top exhibits will be available to interested parties. A conference banquet will be offered to delegates on one evening.

All Japanese colleagues interested in finding out more about the symposium should contact the JSTP Secretariat and those from outside Japan should contact the ITA or visit the website, from where a conference brochure can be downloaded: www.itatube.org Professor Makoto Murata (chairman of Roll Forming Committee of JSTP) The University of Electro-Communication – Japan

Phone: +81 42 443 5408 Email: kaji@mce.uec.ac.jp

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