TPi July 2017

Material handling & logistics

Material handling equipment is concerned with bar and billet, shapes and stock sizes, tube and pipe. Weighing, measuring and packaging equipment deal with payload. Flawlessly executed, they ensure that producer and customer alike receive the full value of the brawnier processes of fabrication. The corollary here is, of course, that want of care in any of these specialities subtracts value. Having to repeat a procedure even once is unacceptable, as much so in weighing, measuring and packaging as in handling. In prevailing market conditions, time is not only money. It is also productivity, competitiveness, repeat business, and much else besides — a point very well understood by the equipment suppliers reviewed in this section.

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TUBE PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL July 2017

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