TPi March 2015

business & market news

INDUTEC: A Springboard into Africa With Africa’s attractiveness as a business destination on the rise, the SA Industry and Technology Fair (INDUTEC) offers a cost-effective springboard into the rest of Africa. provide exposure to companies from all over Africa. The event targets the manufacturing, engineering, water, petrochemical, plastics and energy sectors.

Franklin Fuelling Systems Ltd, another first-time exhibitor at the event, is a provider of complete fuelling systems. Natasha Pratley, marketing executive at the company, commented, “We decided to exhibit at this event because it has synergy with our allied industries.” Third-time exhibitor Sera ProDos SA will launch a new chemical dosing system, and will showcase its compact dosing system. Sera ProDos offers a wide range of precision metering pumps as well as complete dosing systems with a wide variety of add-ons and accessories. Exhibition Management Services – South Africa marketing@exhibitionsafrica.com www.exhibitionsafrica.com

Thai-German Public Company Ltd (TGPRO) will exhibit at Pumps, Valves and Pipes Africa for the first time in 2015. This will also be the company’s first time exhibiting in Africa. “We decided to exhibit at PVP Africa 2015 because this event will help us introduce our company and products into the African market and will help us expand our business into Africa,” says Rinlada Panpoonsub, international sales executive at TGPRO. Products

“Africa is now rated as the second most attractive investment destination in the world and businesses are actively using INDUTEC to explore these opportunities,” said John Thomson from Exhibition Management Services, organiser of the event. INDUTEC takes place from 20 to 22 May 2015, at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Instead of making many trips to different African countries to find business opportunities, one trip to INDUTEC will

MRC Global awarded five-year supplier agreement

branch network toward the mutual success of the agreement.”

complex supply chain,” commented Andrew Lane, MRC Global’s chairman, president and CEO. “MarkWest is a leader of midstream services in the natural gas industry, and we are very well positioned to support their continued growth in this market. When a company like MarkWest chooses MRC Global for this type of arrangement, we take that very seriously and commit our significant supply chain and PVF expertise and best-in-class “This approach is set to meet our customers’ best expectations and assist our partners in tackling their biggest challenges.” The company has also won Transneft’s tender for large-diameter pipes (LDP) supply. From January to April 2015, TMK will supply Transneft and its contractors with 31,583 tonnes of large- diameter pipes, which will be produced at its Volzhsky Pipe Plant and used for repair and reconstruction of Transneft’s oil trunk pipelines.

MarkWest Energy Partners, LP has awarded a pipe, valves and fittings (PVF) supplier agreement to MRC Global Inc’s USA operating company, McJunkin Red Man Corporation. Under this agreement, McJunkin Red Man will supply PVF for MarkWest’s pipeline projects focused in the Marcellus and Utica regions. The agreement has a five-year term. “We are very pleased that MarkWest is placing their trust in MRC Global to work with them to drive costs out of their TMK, a producer of tubular products for the oil and gas industry, has supplied a complete set of high-tech tubular products and equipment for a drill column. Surgutneftegaz will use the products to drill a well around 5,000m deep. “By fostering customer relationship we aim to expand our offer from just top- quality tailor-made tubular products to a comprehensive value proposition for oil and gas companies,” said Alexander Shiryaev, TMK’s CEO.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, USA, MRC Global distributes pipe, valves, fittings and related products and services to the energy industry, and supplies these products and services across each of the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors.

MRC Global Inc – USA www.mrcglobal.com Delivering to Surgutneftegaz and Transneft

TMK manufactures and supplies steel pipes for the oil and gas industry, operating 28 production sites in the USA, Russia, Canada, Romania, Oman, UAE and Kazakhstan, and two R&D centres in Russia and the USA. The largest share of TMK’s sales belongs to high margin oil country tubular goods (OCTG), shipped to customers in over 80 countries.

TMK – Russia tmk@tmk-group.com www.tmk-group.com

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