TPi October 2008

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Guangzhou International Convention & Exhibition Centre.

‘Supertube’ leaves for London

The 2008 event attracted 386 exhibitors, including 91 international participants from 17 countries, and 8,590 trade visitors. Since its launch in 2000, Water China has become the largest and most important exhibition of its kind in China. Merebo will again organise the International Pavilion, dedicated to companies, associations, chambers and trade press from all over the world. Merebo Messe Marketing – Germany contact@merebo.com www.waterchina.merebo.com Interpipe to buy major Ukrainian scrap metal processing plant Interpipe has announced the acquisition of 95.95% of the shares of OJSC Dnepropetrovsk Vtormet (Dneprovtormet), the second largest scrap metal processing plant in Ukraine. The plant’s facilities for metal scrap storage and processing total 950,000 tons per year, and the plant has a wide spread of areas for scrap collection in Central and Eastern Ukraine. Scrap metal is the basic raw material for production of steel ingots used for the manufacturing of Interpipe seamless pipes and railway wheels. Alexander Kirichko, Interpipe’s chief executive officer, commented, “ The acquisition of this scrapmetal processing plant is the next important step forward in the transformation of Interpipe into a fully vertically integrated company. Dneprovtormet’s facilities will enable us to satisfy our growing needs in scrap metal for the production of pipe and wheel billets, and will also provide high quality raw materials to our new electric steel melting facility, Interpipe Steel, which is due to come on stream in 2010 ”.

Load-testing the tube using weights ▲ ▲

Deepdale Engineering Company Ltd, UK, has completed and despatched a large section of monopile tube to form a key part of a major rail construction project in Central London.

The 40mm thick carbon steel tube, which is 20m long and has an outside diameter of 2,200mm, was cold rolled and automatic submerged arc welded in the firm’s specialist engineering and fabrications unit in Dudley, West Midlands. supplied complete with internal stiffening rings, lifting frame assembly and wing brackets. The giant tube was loaded onto a long trailer and taken to a local testing facility where it was subjected to a number of rigorous load tests, which including being lifted into the vertical position using specialist crane equipment. Havingbeen successfully trialled for strength and integrity, the monopile was transported to the capital where it will form the base of a temporary crane structure. Weighing 46 tonnes, the finished fabrication was

The ultimate test: the 46 tonne pile is ▲ ▲ lifted into the vertical position

The order is one of many civil engineering contracts carried out by Deepdale Engineering for clients in the UK and throughout the world.

Deepdale Engineering Limited – UK sales@deepdale-eng.co.uk • www.deepdale-eng.co.uk

Interpipe – Ukraine press-office@interpipe.biz www.interpipe.biz

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