TPi July 2016

products & developments

Corinth Pipeworks and SMS join forces for enhanced product ranges

applications. The pipes produced by Corinth Pipeworks are earmarked for future use by the company’s customers for supplying energy in the Mediterranean region, Gulf of Mexico, Latin America, West and East Africa, the Middle East and in the North Sea. Corinth Pipeworks already successfully operates an HFI pipe welding machine and two-step spiral mill.

In 2013, Corinth Pipeworks from Athens, Greece, designated SMS Group as supplier for am 18m JCOE ® large- diameter pipe mill for longitudinally welded pipes. Two years later, the first pipe was welded on the new mill. The plant is designed for a capacity of 400,000 tons of pipes with outside diameters between 16" and 56", in wall thicknesses up to 40mm and lengths up to 18.3m. The company’s first order to take advantage of this new capacity was for the supply of large-diameter pipes, both LSAW and HSAW, for a total length of approximately 495km, for the onshore part of the pipeline across Greece, entrusted to Corinth Pipeworks by Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP). The contract for approximately 270,000 tons of 48" diameter line pipe was awarded, in partnership with the Japanese group Marubeni-Itochi Steel, following an international tender and a strict evaluation procedure. Delivery of line pipes project will begin in 2016 and will be completed in 2017.

The new JCOE large- diameter pipe mill is

systems – ShapeBase, ShapeView and ShapeControl – and is designed to achieve optimised forming of longitudinally welded large-diameter pipes during the JCO process.

equipped with the Shape automation system, which precisely controls the forming process using special sensors. Possible negative influences associ- ated with the starting material and operator are minimised. The system comprises three modular sub-

Corinth Pipeworks SA – Greece info@cpw.gr www.cpw.gr

By investing in the new pipe welding machine Corinth Pipeworks has expanded its product range to satisfy global demand for high-strength pipes for the production and transportation of oil and gas. The new large-diameter pipe line completes its range of products. Pipe sizes with high wall thicknesses and small outside diameters can also be produced in cost- effective quantities. With the JCOE technology from SMS group, Corinth Pipeworks is able to meet quality requirements for high-strength pipes for offshore and deep-offshore

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