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and instrumentation tubing, U-tubes, and OCTG (tubing, casing, drill pipe, pup joints, crossovers and nipples). The company also manufactures finned tubes, studded tubes, fittings, flanges, and forgings. The products are supplied in a range of materials, including carbon steel, alloy steel, stainless steel, nickel alloys, titanium, non-ferrous, brass, copper nickel, and aluminium. Website : www.tps-technitube.de

Smaco Malaysia

TPS-Technitube GmbH Germany

Smaco manufactures a complete ERW pipe mill line for API/ASTM pipe and structural hollow section (up to 16" diameter). This includes mill entry equipment, forming/ sizing mill, cut-off and rolls. The pipe mill system includes specialized testing equipment to meet API specifications. This comprises ultrasonic testing, internal weld bead scarfing (with cutting depths monitoring), weighing, length measuring, stencil paint marking and pin stamping. The company’s finishing equipment also includes end facer, hydrotester, straightener, and threading machine, complete with a pipe transfer and handling system. These machines are of heavy-duty construction with proven technology that ensures reliability at all levels of mill operation. Website : www.smaco-intl.com SMS Demag AG is a world leader in the construction of plants for the steel, aluminium and copper industries. The company offers a complete process chain extending from crude iron production right through steelmaking, continuous casting, rolling mill and tubemaking technologies, up to processing and finishing lines for hot and cold strip. The product range of SMS Meer essentially consists of manufacturing plants and automated finishing systems for seamless and welded steel tubes (diameters from 4 to 1,800mm). It also includes hydraulic presses such as open-die forging presses and powder presses, and casting and rolling plants for sections, wire rod and bar steel. This is in addition to casting and rolling plants for extrusion of billets, strips, wire rod, anodes and tubes made from non- ferrous and precious metals, plants for the production and further processing of aluminium billets and slabs as well as plants for the recycling of aluminium. Website : www.sms-meer.com SMS Meer GmbH Germany

TPS-Technitube Röhrenwerke GmbH is a privately owned company operating modern production mills and stocks for various tubular products. With more than 30 years’ experience, the company offers a range that includes seamless tube and pipe, heat exchanger and boiler tubes, hydraulic

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