TPi May/July 2020

Business & market news

Plymouth Tube Company acquires Nisshin Automotive Tubing, LLC

The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Plymouth Tube Company www.plymouth.com Nippon Steel Nisshin Holding, Inc www.nisshin.nipponsteel.com

President and CEO, Drew Van Pelt, said: “We are excited by the addition of NAT’s laser welding technology to complement Plymouth’s current welding technology. Together, the combined businesses will provide our customers in both automotive and non-automotive markets a broader array of products and services to meet their evolving needs.”

Plymouth Tube Company, Illinois, USA, has completed the purchase of Nisshin Automotive Tubing, LLC (NAT), located in Kentucky USA from Nippon Steel Nisshin Holding, Inc. The acquisition of the NAT plant will expand Plymouth Tube’s capabilities and increase its participation in automotive tubing.

TD Williamson turns 100 – celebrations and centennial plans are well underway

and services and after furnishing the cleaning tools for the War Emergency Pipeline Office during World War II, the steel, mandrel-bodied equipment known today as pipeline pigs, TDW evolved into a pipeline solutions company with its first location in Tulsa, USA. Today, the company has a worldwide presence, providing pigging, advanced isolation and in-line inspection products and services from locations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, India, the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia. TD Williamson www.tdwilliamson.com

TD Williamson (TDW), the global pipeline services provider, celebrated its 100 th anniversary this year. The company marked the occasion by recognising how it has grown alongside the oil and gas industry, saluting the people responsible for that growth and celebrating its partnerships with leading pipeline organisations. The centennial has also kicked off an ambitious community relations initiative aligned with the company’s robust culture of charitable giving. Together, team members around the world will complete 100 community events by the end of the year. Activities will correspond to the five philanthropic

areas TDW emphasises: basic needs and health; education; civil and community; arts and culture; and environment and sustainability. The company was established in 1920 by TD Williamson Snr as an electrical services contractor. By the 1930s, it had expanded into general oilfield products

Anglo American awards contract for Corinth Pipeworks pipeline project in Chile

pipes will require extremely strict geometrical tolerances to ensure uniform flow through the entirety of the pipeline. Corinth Pipeworks Pipe

and three Layer Polyethylene (3LPE) Coating. The overall quantity of 13,700 tonnes of steel pipes will be manufactured within 2020 at Corinth Pipeworks’ plant in Greece. The pipeline is located in the Andean Mountains at an average altitude of 3,500m above sea level and the

Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry SA has been awarded a contract by global mining company, Anglo American Sur SA, for the manufacture and supply of steel pipes for the Los Bronces Pipeline Replacement project. The contract, covering the pipe material for the 35km slurry pipeline in Chile, includes the supply of 24" LSAW pipes in heavy wall thickness up to 31.75mm

Industry SA www.cpw.gr

Anglo American Sur SA www.angloamerican.com

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