TPT November 2016

AR T I C L E

Uzinexport SA

specialites reunited, with an elite core of engineers offering vast experience and an impressive database of more than 100,000 projects. Iprolam SA has the competence of approaching complex, turnkey projects, as well as specialist projects in the majority of industries, predominantly in the metallurgy field, providing services as general designer, general supplier and general contractor. Iprolam SA offers competent services in the design of rolling equipment, electric power supply, automation equipment and equipment for the measurement and control of continuous processes. It also caters for electric drive installations – adjustable by AC and DC digital converters – sequential control using state-of-the-art PLCs, computer monitoring, management and control installations for the metal technology processes. Iprolam SA is a competent and trustworthy company and is certified by Germanischer Lloyd according to ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004. All these years have also marked a continuous effort to improve the quality of the pipes produced through a better control of its parameters. Some examples of this are given below. The measurement system is built to assure high-accuracy pipe measurement in order to certify the parameters related to the API 5L standard requirements, or to the requirements of other specific norms.

by Willy Goellner, chairman and founder – Advanced Machine & Engineering/AMSAW

Figure 4: Pipe hydrotester 16"-60". Client: Essar Hazira, India, 2010

Nominal technical data Longitudinally welded steel pipes: Outer diameter:

406 to 1,524mm (16" to 60") 6.4 to 34.9mm for X80

Wall thickness:

Length:

6,000 to 12,500mm

Material grades:

Up to X 80 according to API 5L, 45 th edition, σc max = 675 MPa

Max hydro-testing force:

4,300t

Testing time:

5-30 sec

Figure 5: Facing and bevelling machine 16"-56". Client: Man Anjar, India, 2005

Longitudinally welded steel pipes Outer diameter:

406 to 1,422mm (16" to 56") 6.4 to 31.8mm for X80

Wall thickness:

Length:

6,000 to 12,700mm

Material grades:

Up to X 80 according to API 5L, 45 th edition, σc max = 675 MPa.

Power of bevelling head: 129 kW Cutting speed:

50 to 175m/min

The geographical area has also been expanded with new customers located in China and Malaysia being added. Iprolam SA is a heavy engineering company that specialises in hot and cold rolling mill technology machinery, automation and process control. Iprolam SA was founded in 1959, benefitting from its complex structure with all the technical

Figure 6: Online pipe diameter and out-of-roundness measurement system

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