TPi November 2018

Business & market news

MST named finalist in 2018 AMM awards MST Seamless Tube & Pipe, a manufacturer of carbon and alloy seamless cold-drawn tube and pipe, has been recognised by American Metal Market (AMM) for its accomplishments in the steel industry. The manufacturing company has been named a finalist in the category of Tube & Pipe Producer of the Year. is the domestic mill that is smallest, but states that it can “still hold its own against the larger global players.”

expansion improves the cold-drawing process and provides customers with a higher quality, more consistent product. These upgrades, expansions and additions have helped MST diversify its product line, produce more product overall, stay competitively priced, create more jobs and expand its operational footprint. The AMM Awards for Steel Excellence feature 16 categories dedicated to all segments of the steel industries. Winners are selected by a panel of judges with extensive steel industry leadership experience. MST Seamless Tube & Pipe – USA www.mstube.com distribution process in dashboards that are optimised by purpose and target user. The new network will enable easier expansion of the water supply and treatment monitoring system as demand grows in the future. “Yokogawa offers effective water distribution management and energy conservation solutions, as well as integration of field data to enable predictive analysis for the water and wastewater domain,” said Anil Singh, technical general manager at RISL. “We expect the new centralised system will deliver significant savings of both water and electricity.” Raman Garg, head of sales for non- conventional solutions at Yokogawa India, commented, “As part of the Smart Cities Mission, the Government of India is promoting models of sustainable urban development in 99 cities across India. Yokogawa is honoured to be selected for this crucial project that will demonstrate how our expertise in industrial automation and IT can deliver long-term benefits to vital social infrastructure like water supply and treatment.” Yokogawa Europe BV – Netherlands info@nl.yokogawa.com www.yokogawa.com

In recent years, MST has invested heavily in capital improvement projects in order to stay competitive, both domestically and globally, and to stay ahead of the manufacturing curve. The company built a 10,000ft 2 pickle house to expand its pickling operations; installed a quench and temper line; and added a 377-foot atmosphere- controlled furnace. It also acquired the Blue Diamond trademark for A106 pressure pipe products. MST capped off its aggressive $45mn plan with the completion of a cold pilger mill. This highly specialised

AMM created the Awards for Steel Excellence in 2010 to honour large and small companies that have achieved excellence in the industry. Typically, finalists for Tube & Pipe Producer of the Year are larger and more widely known. Of the three companies nominated this year – MST, JSW USA and Trinity Products – MST

Water management system for India Yokogawa Electric Corporation’s subsidiary, Yokogawa India Ltd, has been entrusted by the State Government of Rajasthan with the implementation, operations and maintenance of a centralised, integratedwater information management system (WIMS) in Jaipur, the state capital, as part of the Smart Cities Mission. information is stored locally. This means measurement frequency is limited, recorded data is sometimes inaccurate, and central decision-making cannot be carried out in an effective, timely manner.

The WIMS initiative aims to establish a centralised monitoring system for both the potable water supply and industrial and municipal wastewater systems across the state to optimise resource utilisation and improve service delivery. Yokogawa will leverage the open, scalable architecture of its Fast/ Tools TM SCADA system to integrate legacy SCADA installations in 100 geographically remote locations into a single network. The company will also be responsible for implementing water network management and analytics software, as well as developing mobile applications for field personnel. Water flow and energy consumption data from the multiple SCADA systems will be transferred regularly to a central command centre and data storage facility, named the Water Information Hub, to be built at the State Data Center in Jaipur. The new monitoring system will provide a real-time view of assets and the

Awarded through RajCOMP Info Services Ltd (RISL), a Government of Rajasthan company responsible for IT services, the initial commissioning of the multi-million-dollar project will be completed in November 2018, after which Yokogawa will provide 24/7 on-site facility management services for five years. Water demand in Rajasthan, the largest state in India, has continued to rise along with the growth in population, and already exceeds supply in many areas, making it increasingly difficult for the state’s Public Health Engineering Department to deliver the quantity and quality of water required. With the present public drinking water system, which supplies more than 370 million litres per day, most of the data collection has been done manually or using supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems where

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