TPT May 2015

Handling, bundling, packaging & logistics

Photo: The Asmag stacking and bundling system

The serviceability of a length of pipe or tube is indisputable. Tough, tempered, resistant to acid, oxidation and corrosion, it was crafted for demanding purposes. But it is in performance that it shines. Prior to installation it must receive the protections due every highly engineered product in transit. If a shipment of tubing does not reach its agreed destination safely and timely, the customer is entitled to reject it. But someone – the producer – will pay. If conveyance from payoff to delivery is

not accomplished efficiently – ie in accord with the dictates of productivity – the penalty will show up, very promptly, in the bottom line. This is where logistics comes in, and why it belongs grouped with handling, bundling and packaging. The products and services reviewed here are offered by people accustomed by long experience to view safe- conduct as an integral and essential constituent of tubemaking.