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Remembering Francesco Mulazzi of Mandelli Sistemi SpA

much in our thoughts,” said Andrea Riello, president of Mandelli Sistemi and of Gruppo Riello Sistemi to which the company belongs. A scholarship will be awarded to the winner of the competition – which has been publicised on the institutional Mandelli websites as well as on that of Politecnico di Milano Piacenza Branch, of MUSP Consortium of Piacenza and of the Unione Costruttori Italiani di Macchine Utensili (UCIMU) – equal to €5,000 divided into two awards. This competition will be repeated every year so that the Ing Francesco Mulazzi Scholarship will become associated with helping the best young machine tool engineers advance their careers and training.

ering during the academic year 2016- 2017, specialising in “Machine Tools and Manufacturing Systems” c/o Politecnico di Milano, Piacenza Branch. “The student who will be awarded the scholarship after graduating in Laurea Magistrale and will have the opportunity of dealing with the labour market thanks to the possibility of carrying out a six-month training internship c/o the Mandelli Sistemi Plant in Piacenza for which an allowance will be given,” said Saverio Gellini, Mandelli CEO. “Our intention is to maintain the memory of our colleague who passed away by associating him with the continuous training of young engineers interested in the machine tool world. This same thought was also shared by Francesco’s wife Tiziana and his young daughter Manuela, she too being a university student, who are both very

MANDELLI Sistemi SpA has announced the sad news that Francesco Mulazzi, mechanical design manager, has recently and prematurely passed away. The company hopes to remember him by helping to create opportunities for the study of machine tools for young mechanical engineers. It is with this in mind that the company, located in Piacenza, Italy, and which

has been making machine tools in Italy and worldwide for more than 80 years, has made an announcement for a scholar- ship named after Ing Francesco Mulazzi for students who will be attending the Laurea Magistrale in mechanical engine-

Mandelli Sistemi SpA – Italy Website: www.mandelli.com

Francesco Mulazzi

Fives and Gazpromtrubinvest commission Bronx finishing floor for Russian pipe factory

Fives designed and supplied the following equipment for the finishing floor: two Bronx ten-roll straightening machines, Taylor-Wilson single and double head hydrotesters, Taylor- Wilson leak tester and two heads pipe facing machine. For the supplied equipment, Fives provided a full set of services including engineering, installation and start-up supervision as well as training. The final acceptance act for the supplied equipment was signed in September 2015. Today, the new pipe making facility makes a wide range of pipes, which pass strict quality control at each stage of the production process. Fives has been designing and supplying a complete range of solutions for tube manufacturers for more than 120 years.

Gazpromtrubinvest commenced the new project with planned production capacity of 350,000 tons per year in 2012. The new facility is to produce longitudinal welded corrosion proof pipes with a range of diameters 127- 426mm for different industries.

GAZPROMTRUBINVEST, a Russian pipe manufacturer and subsidiary of Gazprom, and Fives, an international engineering group, have successfully commissioned Bronx finishing floor equipment for a new pipe making facility in Volgorechensk, Russia.

Fives – France Fax: +33 14523 7571 Website: www.fivesgroup.com

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