TPT November 2013

Industry News

TMK Seversky Tube Works orders threading machines

Themachines operate according to the “stationary tool – rotating pipe” principle. With this method the machines can cut standardised inside and outside threads as well as all premium threads. The pipe threads comply with the production standards API 5CT and GOST 632-80, as well as all other international pipe standards. The threading machines will go into operation in spring 2014.

TMK’s OAO Seversky Tube Works from Polevskoy, Sverdlovsk, Russia, has placed an order with SMS Meer, Germany, for two new threading machines, including transport facilities. With these new machines, Seversky Tube Works is expanding its production capacities for premium joints. The threading machines of the type CG 38/4 are able to thread pipes in the diameter range from 169 to 340mm with wall thicknesses from 7.3 to 16.5mm and lengths up to 13.5m. Depending on the thread type and diameter, the machines finish between 46 and 87 pipes per hour.

SMS Meer GmbH – Germany Fax: +49 2161 350 1862

Email: info@sms-meer.com Website: www.sms-meer.com Olicana welcomes French student to Ilkley site

and design work on new tooling. He is improving his precision machining skills by machining the tooling that he has designed and will then fit and assemble the tooling to prove off the tooling. He has already passed the required English exam (TOEIC), which is compulsory to validate the Engineering Diploma, but wants to keep improving his language skills and

OLICANA Products, a tube bending specialist based in West Yorkshire, UK, was happy to provide a learning platform for French engineering student Sylvain Royer for three months over the summer. Mr Royer, who is 22 and from the Southern city of Toulouse in France, has had a passion for motorbikes since he was 14 and this is what led him to study mechanical engineering.

Sylvain Royer at Olicana in Yorkshire

to travel as well. Rupert Pearson, Olicana’s managing director, has been impressed with Mr Royer’s enthusiasm and attitude to get straight down to work on the factory floor. He is proving to be a very positive, hands-on member of the team.

After passing a two-year technical degree in mechanical engineering, specialising in aeronautics, he was ranked top ten in France allowing him to join the prestigious INSA of Toulouse, one of the best engineering universities in the country. Mr Royer’s work placement at Olicana focuses on 3D-design work of both plastic injection mould components

Olicana – UK Website: www.olicana.com

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