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Tube and Pipe Fabrication News Release List
Tube and pipe fabrication related news
There are 136 news releases related to tube and pipe fabrication.
Harco Metal Products (Harco), Tempe, Ariz., a provider of tube fabrication, systems integration, and seamless manufacturing, has announced the purchase of new, advanced machinery.
Both the Wafios BMZ42 and the Accurex TubeInspectHD were selected for their unique and unparallel performance objecti...
11/20/09
BLM Group USA, Wixom, Mich., has appointed John P. Ovsek as vice president. He is responsible for all equipment sales and after-sales service of the company's business in North America.
Ovsek has 28 years of increasing responsibilities in direct sales, strategic planning, and management of sales ...
11/10/09
Mathey Dearman Inc., Tulsa, Okla., has hired Charles G. Lutz as vice president of sales and marketing—Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin America, Middle East, and New Zealand.
Lutz previously was director of international business development with industrial control component and system provid...
11/9/09
L.B. Foster Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., has announced a newly formed joint venture between three partners, Kentucky-based Lally Pipe & Tube, L.B. Foster, and industry veteran, Jim Legg. Together, the three partners have formed LB Pipe & Coupling Products LLC to manufacture couplings and accessories for th...
11/5/09
Frost & Sullivan has presented its '2009 Global Best Partners Welding & Cutting Systems for Energy Generation Award' to ESAB. In 2009, the company accounted for nearly 18 per cent of the global welding and cutting market for energy generation.
Key performance drivers for ESAB have been its uniqu...
11/5/09
Harco Metal Products, a tube fabricator with facilities in Tempe, Ariz., and Fort Payne, Ala., has announced that it has procured several new machines to complement its existing equipment. These include:CNC tube bending equipment, including rotary arm, free-form multidimensional, roll, ram, and dual...
11/3/09
Tube bending equipment provider Pines Technology, Westlake, Ohio, has announced a distribution agreement with Gregson Induction Benders Ltd., a UK-based supplier of induction bending machinery.
"This agreement confirms Pines strategic direction to specialize in large bending applications. The add...
9/9/09
TRUMPF Inc. presented a 2009 award of sales achievement to ICON Machine Tool Inc. at its annual distributor meeting held in July at the company's North American headquarters in Farmington, Conn.
ICON, of St. Louis, Mo., received the Sustained Excellence Award in recognition of its consistent perf...
9/9/09
Tube India International 2010—The All-Indian Exhibition and Conference for the Tube and Pipe Industries—will be held at the Bombay Exhibition Center in Mumbai Feb. 10 – 12, 2010. The 4th staging of the event is being organized jointly by Messe Düsseldorf and its subsidiary Messe Dü...
9/9/09
COMEQ Inc., White Marsh, Md., has been appointed PARMIGIANI's exclusive distributor for the U.S. and Canada and by listing in Mexico.
PARMIGIANI is a supplier of angle and section bending rolls, plate bending rolls, tank head dishing machines, and flanging machines. The appointment marks PARMIGIA...
9/9/09
GKN Aerospace has installed Unison all-electric, combined left- and right-hand bending machines at its wing component operation in Filton, U.K. The machines are used to fabricate highly precise, complex tubular parts in batches usually less than 20 parts. Typical applications might be parts with as ...
8/11/09
The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Intl. (FMA) and the Tube & Pipe Association, Intl. (TPA) seek applicants for two industry awards.
The FABRICATOR’s Industry Award 2010, presented by FMA, and TPJ’s Industry Award 2010, presented by TPA, are open to individuals or companies in the metal...
7/23/09
Manchester Tool & Die Inc. offers a new 4-page brochure detailing its steel fabricating and production machining services, as well as the production machining and tube end forming services from BKB Manufacturing. The new literature details the capabilities available from Manchester Tool & Die, inclu...
6/16/09
RathGibson, a manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing with headquarters in Lincolnshire, Ill., has opened an office in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Led by Cristian Rohde, the office will serve both Central and South America.
As director of b...
6/9/09
Bardons & Oliver, Solon, Ohio, a manufacturer of CNC turning systems and tube and bar cutoff equipment, has launched two new sections of its Web site. The first focuses on machine rebuilding, and the second on CNC retrofit and control retrofit projects.
The machine rebuild section, at http://bard...
6/9/09
Albert T. Brennan, who purchased the Evans Supply Co. in Winchester, Mass., in 1975, later renamed the firm ESCO Tools, and built it into a leading welding end prep tool manufacturer for the power generation industry, has passed away at the age of 87 after a brief illness.
Mr. Brennan's approach ...
6/2/09
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corp. honored 38 premier suppliers last month as part of the company's supplier recognition program. This is the fourth year that Eaton has recognized a select group of its global suppliers with this prestigious award.
Among the award winners was Lomar Ma...
5/28/09
Aristo Machines Inc., Indianapolis, a manufacturer of tube end forming systems, has announced a partnership with Manchester Tool & Die Inc. (MTD), North Manchester, Ind. MTD now will manufacture, install, and offer support for Aristo's lines of tube end forming systems.
Aristo President Robert De...
5/19/09
The Steel Tank Institute/Steel Plate Fabricators Association (STI/SPFA) named two of its members as recipients of the national Pipeline Project of the Year award for 2008.
American SpiralWeld Pipe, Columbia, S.C., a subsidiary of American Cast Iron Pipe Co., and Mid-America Pipe Fabricating & Sup...
5/12/09
RathGibson, Lincolnshire, Ill., has appointed Kirk Thorne to the position of vice president – sales and marketing.
Thorne, who has 25 years of experience in industry, worked previously for Lennox Intl. There he served as vice president of sales and marketing for Allied Air Enterprises, vice pres...
5/12/09
QY Group-China has opened Tritube USA in Baytown, Texas, the group's first manufacturing venture in the U.S.
The manufacturing facility has four forming/welding lines that produce ASTM A500/A513 cold-formed, welded carbon steel mechanical tubing and ASTM A135/A795 fire protection sprinkler pip...
5/12/09
Fraser Steel, Albertville, Minn., a designer and manufacturer of precision tubular parts, recently acquired a large-capacity rotary draw bender.
The 12-ton bender enables the company to bend large pieces of round and square tubing, as well as solid steel bars that previously were too big to handl...
5/12/09
Sharpe Products, New Berlin, Wis., offers enhanced capabilities with its NISSIN 3-D bender.
With this machine, tube is guided continuously through a single die according to the programmed specs input into its software program. The single-die technology improves product design flexibility and reduce...
4/15/09
Sharpe Products, New Berlin, Wis., a provider of custom pipe/tube bending and fabricating services, uses a Tube Inspect S optical tube measuring system to ensure part quality.
A tube is placed in a measuring optical cell where 16 high-resolution cameras measure its geometry in only a few seconds. ...
4/15/09
From Oct. 13 to 15, 2009, Tube Southeast Asia - International Tube & Pipe Trade Fair for Southeast Asia - will be held in Bangkok for the second time. The event is organized by Messe Düsseldorf Asia, with the International Tube Association (ITA) as the industry partner.
Exhibitors will showcase ...
4/14/09
ESCO Tool has acquired and refurbished a 60,000-sq.-ft. building in Holliston, Mass. The company has been located in nearby Medfield, Mass., since 1980.
According to Matthew Brennan, president, "We have been the beneficiary of a growing power industry and are moving into a larger building in resp...
2/10/09
Roll-Kraft, Mentor, Ohio, has participated in a surveillance audit of its ISO quality management system and, for the fourth consecutive year, has fulfilled the requirements and received recertification, with zero minor and zero major nonconformances.
The audit included areas such as sales and or...
2/10/09
The South Carolina Department of Commerce, Orangeburg County Development Commission, and the Central S.C. Alliance have announced that Triumph Tube Inc., a manufacturer in the drawn tube industry, will open its new manufacturing facility in Orangeburg County. The $3.5 million investment is expected ...
2/2/09
TUBOTECH, 5th International Tube, Fittings and Components trade fair will be staged at the Centro de Exposicoes Imigrantes in São Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 6-8, 2009. The event will be jointly organized by Messe Düsseldorf and Grupo Cipa, with the support of the International Tube Association (ITA).
Ex...
12/16/08
The Indalex Inc. aluminum extrusion facility at City of Industry, Calif., has been awarded a Certificate of Recognition and been named a Good Corporate Citizen by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County.
The company received the recognition award for being consistent in its compliance with...
11/11/08
The Wagner Companies, a manufacturer of handrail fittings and metal products in Milwaukee, has announced that Jackie Heinrichs has returned to the company as manager of production control. In this position, she leads the coordination among sales, estimating, warehouse, and manufacturing functions to...
10/14/08
Mayville Eng. Co. (MEC), a contract manufacturer in Mayville, Wis., has acquired the assets of Fabricating Specialists LLC, a manufacturer of formed tubular components and assemblies for the agricultural, architectural, construction, industrial, small-engine, recreational, and sports/fitness markets...
9/16/08
Ohio Gratings Inc., Canton, Ohio, has announced a new division of its company, called OGi Architectural Metal Solutions. The division has been created to expand into the architectural metals market, providing aluminum, carbon, and stainless steel products for projects requiring architectural applica...
9/16/08
Hobart Institute of Welding Technology, Troy, Ohio, has added 8,000 sq. ft. of training area to include two additional, large classrooms and lab space equipped with new technology.
Enrollment has doubled at the institute during the last three years, which required a second shift to be added durin...
9/16/08
Xiris Automation Inc. has announced that Kent Corp., North Royalton, Ohio, is the exclusive North American sales agent for the Zume product family. Scheduled for launch in October, Zume is an optical system that monitors key process parameters on ERW/HFI tube mills before and after the weld station....
9/1/08
TRUMPF Inc., Farmington, Conn., has appointed James Rogowski as managing director of TRUMPF Canada.
The company recently acquired the remaining shares of Advanced Fabricating Machinery, which serves the Canadian market as a sales and spare parts facility for TRUMPF products. Rogowski is responsib...
8/12/08
AddisonMckee, Lebanon, Ohio, has added an e-commerce product called ExpressTools™ to its Web site at www.addisonmckee.com. The e-commerce feature enables online transactions for consumable/perishable bending and end forming tooling.
In addition to in-stock tools, the company manufactures a l...
8/12/08
Kinkelder USA, Rockford, Ill., an importer of steel circular sawing products, has added Mike Rans as vice president.
Rans has a background in metal sawing applications, saw blade service, and facilities management. He began his career in the cut-to-length tube industry before studying tube sawing...
7/15/08
Bosch Rexroth Corp., Hoffman Estates, Ill., recently opened a new facility, Tech Center East, in Rochester Hills, Mich.
Tech Center East is involved in developing hydraulic hybrid systems that are being tested to conserve energy and reduce the environmental impact of vehicles. The facility also p...
7/15/08
Tekno/Tube Arabia: 9th International Trade Fair for Industrial Machinery, Metalworking, Machine Tools, Dies/Molds, Tubes, and Pipes is scheduled to run Jan. 11-14, 2009, at the Dubai International Exhibition Center in the United Arab Emirates. The event will be organized jointly by Al Fajer Informat...
6/17/08
AddisonMckee, Lebanon, Ohio, was named as a winner of the fourth annual Progressive Manufacturing 50 awards, selected by Managing Automation, a monthly publication of Thomas Publishing Co. LLC. AddisonMckee designs and manufactures tube bending and end forming equipment for applications such as auto...
5/15/08
"Gas Tungsten Arc Welding of 2-inch Pipe" provides a step-by-step explanation of how to weld mild steel pipe in the 2G, 5G, and 6G welding positions using the GTAW process.The training materials package includes two DVDs, an instructor guide, and a written test (50 copies). The instructor guide com...
4/15/08
Wauseon Machine & Mfg. (WMM) is the U.S. distributor of products from O+P, an Italian manufacturer of production hydraulic equipment.
O+P manufactures a line of machines for production of hydraulic components with both flexible hose and rigid tube. The line comprises radial crimpers, as well as m...
4/15/08
The Wagner Companies, Milwaukee, recently promoted Justin Wesser to manager of quality services and Patrick Hutchinson to the new position of director of engineering services.
Wesser joined Wagner in 2004 as a manufacturing engineer, becoming production manager for the pipe department later that ...
3/11/08
Warren Steel Holdings, Warren, Ohio, announced that it completed the hot commissioning of its vacuum tank degasser and related systems.
The system is fully operational, and the company has begun shipping degassed material to its customers. The low-pressure environment of the degassing operation a...
2/12/08
The Wagner Companies, Milwaukee, a manufacturer of handrail fittings and metal products for architectural and industrial applications, recently added Debra A. Emmer as a quality supervisor.
Emmer is responsible for implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the quality processes n...
2/12/08
The American Welding Society (AWS), Miami, has entered into an agreement with Trade Show Consulting (TSC) to purchase Weldmex, the largest welding tradeshow in Latin America.
Under the terms of the agreement, the AWS maintains primary ownership of Weldmex and assumes the rights to organize, promo...
1/15/08
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), Washington, D.C., and the Steel Tank Institute/Steel Plate Fabricators Association (STI/SPFA), Lake Zurich, Ill., jointly published a steel pipe design manual titled Welded Steel Pipe Revised Edition 2007.
The manual focuses on the design of steel pip...
1/15/08
The 2007 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show at McCormick Place in Chicago hosted more exhibiting companies and covered more exhibit space than any previous FABTECH. Filling 461,627 sq. ft. of booth space, the show attracted nearly 31,000 visitors from more than 75 countries, a 27 percent...
1/15/08
Tube Russia 2008, an international tube and pipe trade fair, is scheduled to run May 27–30 at the ZAO Exhibition Center in Moscow. The event will be organized jointly by Messe Düsseldorf and ZAO Expocentr, with the support of the International Tube Association (ITA). Exhibit categories will include ...
1/15/08
Eagle Precision Technologies Ltd., Brantford, Ont., a designer and manufacturer of tube bending and end forming products, recently supplied equipment for a nuclear application. The company provided a 5-in.-capacity, multiradius bender; a heavy-duty rotary swager; and all of the associated tooling fo...
11/6/07
Magnatech, East Granby, Conn., has hired Scott Anthony as director of sales and marketing for the Western Hemisphere. Anthony has more than 20 years of senior-level sales and marketing experience with advanced motion control technology. Previously he worked for Gerber Scientific Inc., and most recen...
11/6/07
Ohio Gratings Inc. (OGI), Canton, Ohio, has provided aluminum LiteBar grating for use as a sunscreen above each window of the Arundel Mills building in Baltimore. The 19SGLI4 2-1/2-in. by 3/16-in. grating used for this type of application is strong, lightweight, and cost-effective, according to the ...
11/6/07
Inc. Magazine named LAI Intl. Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., a provider of contract manufacturing services, to its inaugural list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the country. The magazine ranks companies based on revenue growth from 2003 through 2006.
LAI's revenue jumped more than 76...
10/9/07
The 2007 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show, the largest North American showcase of metal forming, fabricating, stamping, tube and pipe, and welding equipment and technology, will return to McCormick Place in Chicago Nov. 11 to Nov. 14.
Cosponsored by the American Welding Society (AWS...
10/9/07
Horn Machine Tools Inc. (HMT), Madera, Calif., has been appointed as the exclusive U.S. distributor for Chiao Sheng Machinery Co. Ltd. (CSM), Taiwan. HMT provides service and technical support for all CSM products, including its complete line of tube bending and fabricating equipment.
HMT is a pr...
10/9/07
A&B Process Systems Corp., Stratford, Wis., has begun construction of a 53,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility, the company's ninth.
Incorporating automated welding processes, advanced finishing processes, and a designated area for factory acceptance testing, the ASME-certified facility will prima...
9/11/07
Veridiam, San Diego, has acquired Allied Swiss Screw Products, Oceanside, Calif.
Veridiam is a provider of EDM services; milled and turned components; welded and drawn tubing; metal and tubular components; and assemblies. The company's products and services are used in aerospace, nuclear power, m...
8/7/07
Unison, Scarborough, U.K., has achieved ISO 14001 certification for its environmental management system and ISO 9001 accreditation for its quality-management systems.
The company designs and manufactures all-electric tube bending machines.
8/7/07
The parallel staging of Metallurgy-Litmash, Tube Russia, and Aluminium/Non-Ferrous 2007 offered 52,500 sq. ft. of exhibit space—50 percent more than last year—to 300 exhibitors from 26 countries. The event had exhibitors from Austria, China, Germany, and Italy, as well as 13,500 visitors...
8/7/07
OMNI-X Inc., Englewood, Colo., celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
Since 1987 the company has designed and manufactured consumable mandrels, wiper dies, and simple and complex multistack compound bending dies. The family-owned business has grown from a three-man operation, and now ha...
7/10/07
Ohio Gratings Inc., Canton, Ohio, has hired Jason Richter as its architect specialist.
Richter manages architectural sales accounts; monitors quality standards through sales, detailing, and production; and assists promotion of the architectural metal products division. Most recently he was a proj...
7/10/07
Messe Düsseldorf has announced the Shanghai New International Expo Center will host Tube China Sept. 23-26, 2008. Messe Düsseldorf China will organize the event.
Planned exhibit categories include tube manufacturing machinery; raw materials; tubes and accessories; used machinery; p...
7/10/07
AddisonMckee, Lebanon, Ohio, has been awarded the World-Class Manufacturing Award as part of The Manufacturer Awards 2007. The Manufacturer is a resource organization for manufacturers, and its awards are presented annually.
AddisonMckee was the single recipient of the World-Class award, one ...
7/10/07
DoALL Sawing Products, Elk Grove Village, Ill., has named Don Klingstein as director of specialty systems. He is responsible for sales and support of the company's advanced material handling and sawing systems in North America, including Remmert automated storage and retrieval systems, Tsune circula...
6/12/07
Universal Tool and Engineering Inc. (UTE), Johnson City, Tenn., has appointed Rick Ott as sales manager. He is responsible for national and international sales.
Ott has more than 25 years' experience in the tube and pipe fabricating industry. He worked for several domestic and international bende...
5/8/07
Prima North America is holding an open house/laser seminar June 7, 2007, at its technology center in Chicopee, Mass. The company is introducing its new CV5000 laser resonator at the event.
Planned activities, which span the entire day, include demonstrations of the company's laser cutting systems...
5/8/07
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company has sold Western Pneumatic Tube Co. (WPT), a portfolio company of Superior Group Inc., to Tinicum Capital Partners II, L.P., a private equity fund managed by New York-based Tinicum Capital Partners.
WPT, based in Kirkland, Wash., is a manufacturer of large diameter, l...
5/8/07
Everett Industries Inc., a Warren, Ohio-based producer of abrasive cutoff machines and wheels, is celebrating 45 years in business.
Founded in 1962 by Chuck Everett, the company now employs 28 people and is operated by President Bill Everett. Its 37,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility houses both a ...
4/10/07
Parker Instrumentation has launched a Web site dedicated to its permanent tube connection technology for higher pressure applications, Phastite.
The site, www.parker.com/phastite/, provides information intended to help instrument and piping engineers understand what the 20,000 PSI rated technolo...
2/13/07
Eagle Precision Technologies Ltd., a provider of tube bending and forming systems, has introduced a new 5-year warranty program.
The warranty covers new machinery, including the company's line of CNC tube benders, end formers, and muffler equipment.
1/9/07
The Wagner Companies, Milwaukee, has hired Greg Krouse as process development engineer.
Krouse is responsible for the development and continuous improvement of the quoting, engineering, and manufacturing processes for railing systems. He also develops new processes and improves the company's abil...
12/12/06
Hess Industries Inc., Niles, Mich., has announced the launch of Formitt Metal Labs, created specifically to support product development for a variety of industries.
Formitt Metal Labs offers prototyping and short-run and production runs to get products to market quickly.
The company utilizes ...
12/12/06
The L.S. Starrett Co., Athol, Mass., has established a saw service center in Bensonville, Ill., which provides welded band saw blades to the Midwest.
The center stocks the complete inventory of the company's band saw blade coil stock, ground flat stock, drill rod, and hand and power tool accessor...
11/7/06
Kent Hughes has been named national sales manager of industrial products for The M.K. Morse Co., Canton, Ohio. He directs the industrial sales team and works to position the company as a market leader in the industrial sales channel.
Hughes has been in the band saw blade industry for more than 20...
11/7/06
Bauer Welding & Metal Fabricating, St. Paul, Minn., has named Bill Remes as director of sales and marketing.
Remes has more than 20 years of experience in the manufacturing capital equipment and high-technology fields. He spent time with Thiele Eng., Edina, Minn.; Laser Machining Inc., Somerset W...
11/7/06
IPSCO Inc. and NS Group Inc. have announced the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, in connection with the proposed merger of NS Group with a wholly-owned subsidiary of IPSCO Inc.
The expiration of the Hart-Scott-Rodino wait...
10/18/06
The Tube & Pipe Association, Intl. (TPA), and its flagship magazine, TPJ – The Tube & Pipe Journal®, announce their upcoming TPJ Symposium, to be held March 14-16, 2007, at Disney's Contemporary Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
The multispeaker conference will explore best practices and technolog...
10/17/06
As a result of its acquisition by Chicago-based Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Georg Fischer Rohrverbindungstechnik GmbH, Singen, Germany, has changed its name to Orbitalum Tools GmbH.
There are no operational changes for suppliers or customers. The product portfolio comprises stationary and portabl...
10/10/06
Tube 2006, International Tube and Pipe Trade Fair, held in Düsseldorf, Germany, attracted 28,600 attendees, an increase of 7.5 percent compared with the previous event held in 2004.
The visitors came from 76 countries, with 50 percent arriving from countries other than Germany. The majority of in...
9/12/06
PTCAlliance Corp., Wexford, Pa., has completed the necessary steps to implement its prepackaged plan of reorganization and has successfully emerged from Chapter 11.
Under the plan, the company’s senior lenders have exchanged their prepetition debt for all of the equity in the reorganized company....
9/12/06
Hayes Intl., Rotorua, New Zealand, a member of The Bradbury Group of companies, has added Sean Wiebe to its U.S. sales team. Wiebe is based at the company's facility in Moundridge, Kan., and assists customers with equipment selection and system design.
Hayes Intl. produces coil handling, roll for...
8/8/06
Hess Industries Inc., Niles, Mich., has announced the launch of Formitt Metal Labs, created specifically to support product development for a variety of industries.
Formitt Metal Labs offers prototyping and short-run and production runs to get products to market quickly. The company serves Europe...
8/8/06
Jancy Engineering Inc., Davenport, Iowa, has named William Hildebrand as director of market development. Hildebrand focuses on opening untapped markets in North America and beyond.
Hildebrand has more than 25 years of experience in metalworking industries, including construction, fabrication, an...
7/11/06
Wayne Trail Technologies, Fort Loramie, Ohio, has entered a new market segment and is constructing an additional, 30,000-sq.-ft. facility.
The company has entered the robotics, welding, and fixturing market segment by acquiring Flexible Systems Engineering Inc., Tipp City, Ohio. Michael Scott, a ...
7/11/06
Acrotech Inc., Lake City, Minn., has acquired the Di-Acro product line and moved production back to Lake City, where the line was originally designed and built.
The product line includes finger brakes, shears, rod and tube benders, notchers, single-punch units, and all the related tooling....
7/11/06
The AutoCAD® CD version 3.0 from Charlotte Pipe and Foundry, Charlotte, N.C., was ranked No. 1 on PM Engineer magazine's top 10 products list, based on reader interest.
Developed to provide a complete set of 2-D and 3-D AutoCAD drawings for all company products, the latest release includes d...
7/11/06
Actuant Corp., Milwaukee, has completed the purchase of D.L. Ricci Corp., Red Wing., Minn.
Actuant consists of two groups of companies: Tools & Supplies and Engineered Solutions. D.L. Ricci is now managed as part of Hydratight, one of the businesses comprising the Tools & Supplies div. Hydratight...
7/11/06
Georg Fischer Ltd., Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has announced it has sold its capital shares of Georg Fischer Rohrverbindungst echnik GmbH, Singen, Germany, to Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, Ill.
As a result of the sale, ITW gets enhanced access to the process piping industry. Georg Fischer R...
6/13/06
Hess Industries Inc. has announced the appointment of David Zenger as president and CEO for all operations and business activities worldwide. The announcement, made by Justin Hillenbrand, chairman of Hess Industries Inc., unites all Hess subsidiaries, Hess Engineering Inc., Capitol Technologies Inc....
6/1/06
Numalliance has opened Numamerica, Davenport, Iowa, as its exclusive distributor for the U.S.
Forged from an agreement with North American distributor Nichols Intl. Machinery Systems Co. (NIMSCO), Numamerica has taken ownership of all Numalliance-related accounts and will use the company’s produc...
5/9/06
Prima North America is holding an open house May 23 - 24 at its Chicopee, Mass., Technology Center to debut its new Syncrono laser cutting machine.
Visitors also will be able to view demonstrations of the company’s 2-D/3-D laser systems (Platino, Domino, Rapido); its automatic load/unload system ...
5/9/06
Macsteel Service Centers USA Inc., owned by the global steel company Macsteel Holdings of South Africa, has announced that it is constructing a $10 million metals manufacturing and distribution facility in Tucson, Ariz. The company plans to hire 25 employees within the next few years, with possible ...
4/17/06
Metalcon Intl., Newton, Mass., has announced that its 2006 show will take place Oct. 3-5 in Tampa, Fla. This is the only annual international show dedicated to metal in construction.
This year 262 exhibiting companies will offer international visitors a variety of construction products, includin...
4/11/06
T-Drill Industries Inc., Norcross, Ga., has awarded George Yardley Co., Fountain Valley, Calif., the No. 1 in sales award for 2005.
George Yardley Co. represents plumbing, HVAC, filtration, instrumentation, and pumps product lines.
4/11/06
Detroit Diesel Corp., Detroit, has named Troy Tube & Mfg. Co., Chesterfield, Mich., as its 2005 supplier of the year.
Troy Tube has been in business since 1978 and services high, low, and medium volumes and produces various tubular products for the automotive, emissions, military, and heavy-truck...
4/11/06
Messe Düsseldorf, organizer of international trade fairs for the wire, cable, and tube and pipe industries, has become the co-organizer of TUBOTECH 2007, an international tube, fittings, pipes, valves, and components trade fair to be held Oct. 2-4, 2007, in São Paulo, Brazil.
Messe Düsseldorf is ...
4/11/06
AddisonMckee, a tube bending and end-forming equipment manufacturer, has announced its expansion into China. The company, with current facilities in Wilmington, Ohio, and Preston, England, has appointed Jason Carline as vice president and general manager of the new facility in Tianjin, China. Manufa...
3/15/06
Wafios Machinery, Branford, Conn., has announced management changes and realignments effective immediately.
The company has hired Michael Rief as sales manager for Canada. He is responsible for the sales of wire and tube bending machines, as well as spring machinery and other wire-working product...
3/7/06
DoALL Sawing Products, Des Plaines, Ill., has named Darren Garbutt to the recently created position of North American manager of service and support.
Garbutt supports sawing product sales with product maintenance programs for end users. He coordinates the North American service program for sawing...
2/7/06
Chicago Metal Rolled Products recently curved rectangular tubing to form the parabolic arches for the new Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's, which opened in downtown Chicago in the spring of 2005.
The company matched the customer-supplied template, putting multiple radii into 50-ft.-long tube to minimize ...
2/7/06
Ryerson Inc. has confirmed that its previously announced corporate name now is in effect as is the concurrent adoption of the ticker symbol "RYI" for its common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Previously the company was named Ryerson Tull, Inc. and traded under the ticker symbol "RT" ...
1/10/06
Mazak Optonics, Schaumburg, Ill., hosted a real-time software theater at FABTECH Intl./AWS that demonstrated the use of FG CAD/CAM software for programming of pipe parts. Spectators interacted with the technicians performing the demonstrations, programmed a pipe part, and watched the part be cut on ...
1/10/06
The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Intl.® (FMA), and the Tube & Pipe Association, Intl.® (TPA), are deeply saddened by the Jan. 1 passing of Harrison Campbell (Hutch) Berkeley Jr., former vice president and general manager of Production Tube Cutting Inc., Dayton, Ohio; co-founder...
1/6/06
Ron Stange, owner and founder of Tools For Bending Inc., Denver, died Dec. 3.
Stange began his career in the tube and pipe fabrication industry when he joined the H&H Tool Division of Teledyne Pines in 1955. He founded Tools For Bending in 1965. Known for prolific and quality articles on tube be...
12/15/05
The Wagner Companies, Milwaukee, has named Lisa Meese as its customer service and inside sales representative.
Meese is responsible for generating sales orders for the company and assists in the resolution of customer questions to help identify the products that will meet their needs. Previously ...
12/13/05
The American Welding Society has made available AWS D18.3/D18.3M:2005, "An American National Standard: Specification for Welding of Tanks, Vessels, and other Equipment, in Sanitary (Hygenic) Applications."
The specification covers the requirements for welding carbon steels, stainless steels, and ...
12/13/05
Mueller Industries Inc. announced today that it has acquired a 50.5 percent joint venture interest in China to manufacture copper tube, primarily to serve the Chinese domestic OEM air conditioning market as well as complement the company's U.S. product line. The joint venture will produce inner gro...
12/12/05
The Board of Directors of Ryerson Tull Inc. has appointed Dennis J. Keller to the company's board of directors.
Keller is chairman of the board of DeVry Inc. and DeVry University Inc. DeVry Inc. is the holding company for DeVry University, Ross University, Deaconess College of Nursing, and Becke...
11/23/05
AddisonMckee, a provider of tube fabricating equipment, has broken ground on its new location in Lebanon, Ohio.
Construction of the 78,000-sq.-ft. building officially began Nov. 1 and is expected to be completed by May 2006. Plans include a future expansion of an additional 85,000 sq. ft. of manu...
11/8/05
Plymouth, Mich.-based Metaldyne announced today that it is expanding its manufacturing location in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. The plant, which currently produces balance shaft modules for Hyundai, will expand to include powder metal connecting rod assemblies and front end modular assemblies. The compa...
10/31/05
The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Intl.® (FMA), and its technology affiliate, the Tube & Pipe Association, Intl.® (TPA), have partnered with the China Cold Roll-Forming Steel Association and Thermatool Corp. to offer an opportunity to tour tube and pipe producing and fabricating facilitie...
9/13/05
Formtek Metal Forming Inc., Itasca, Ill., has acquired the operating assets of Tishken Products Co., a privately held company based in Detroit.
Founded in 1921, Tishken produces various roll forming machines, edge conditioning machines, strip thickness sizing machines, carbide saw-mill machines, cu...
9/13/05
Thermatool, East Haven, Conn., has announced the successful start-up of a CFD 1200 solid-state dual contact and induction welding machine at Kingland Petroleum-Gas Pipeline Co. Ltd. in Zhejiang, China.
Installed on a 24-in. (630-mm) API and structural mill supplied by Perrysburg, Ohio- based Abbey ...
9/13/05
Unison, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, U.K., has appointed Horn Machine Tools Inc. (HMT) as the exclusive North American distributor for its entire product line, which includes CNC tube benders, robotic workcells, and tube cleaning machines.
HMT, with locations in Madera, Calif., and Indianapolis, w...
8/9/05
Orbimatic (UK) Ltd. has moved into a larger facility that includes an Orbital Welding Technology Centre. The center provides research and development services at no cost and allows customers to try out orbital processes in which they are interested.
In partnership with Qualitas Precision Welding S...
6/14/05
Roll-Kraft, Mentor, Ohio, has appointed Shawn Mitchell to its sales staff and Jeffrey Misley as project manager.
Mitchell has many years of experience in the industry and has worked with the company's customers during his previous relationship with the company.
Misley joined the company from Tri-T...
6/14/05
The Wagner Companies has added angle roll bending services to its manufacturing operations. New capabilities include bending aluminum, steel, stainless steel, brass, and bronze and shapes such as round pipe, round and square tube, angles, and channel.
6/14/05
AddisonMckee has announced that it has been acquired by a group of investors led by WHI Capital Partners (WHICP).
With manufacturing facilities in Wilmington, Ohio, and Preston, England, AddisonMckee has more than 270 employees worldwide. WHICP, a Chicago-based private equity group that invests in ...
4/12/05
Haven Mfg. Co. has announced that all industrial control panels used in its tube cutting and related tube processing machinery have passed premarket product safety testing by Intertek ETL SEMKO, a global, independent testing lab and certification agency. By complying to UL508A and CSA C22.2, all pan...
4/12/05
After acquiring the Milford Fastening Systems line in 2004, Orbitform has begun the Factory Rebuilt Machine (FRM) program to refurbish and rework pneumatic, benchtop, pedestal, and fixed-center riveters.
4/12/05
Roll-Kraft has added a large-capacity tryout mill to the shop floor of its Mentor, Ohio, headquarters factory.
The mill enables the company to test its tooling products for large roll formed profiles. It accommodates material up to 47 in. wide.
With the addition, the company now has seven tryout m...
4/12/05
T-E-S Tube Equipment has acquired Vogel Tool & Die, a 65-year-old manufacturer of tools for fabricating tubular parts. Vogel's product line will continue to be manufactured and sold worldwide.
3/8/05
Roll-Kraft has added a water-based parts cleaning system to its shop floor to be used to clean rolls and equipment parts coming in for reconditioning.
The automatic process replaces the manual tank system previously used. It washes and rinses parts in one revolution and uses biodegradable detergent...
3/8/05
Roll-Kraft, Mentor, Ohio, has announced it has acquired Empire Precision Tooling (EPT), Brampton, Ont. The company has been renamed Roll-Kraft Ltd.
The company says the addition provides support for its Canadian market, cuts cost, and improves response times by reducing the number of cross-border t...
2/8/05
AddisonMckee Inc. has named Ken Hay as vice president of finance and administration. Hay is responsible for all accounting and finance functions, as well as overseeing inventory, human resources, and management information systems.
Hay has experience in senior-level accounting and finance with glob...
1/11/05
Orbimatic has added new information to its U.K. Web site and increased the available languages.
Additions include application-specific pages that give details of recommended system packages for each industry; news briefs; and exhibition information. In addition to English and German, basic informat...
1/11/05
Zetec has obtained a performance demonstration initiative (PDI) qualification for a technique to inspect austenitic and ferritic piping welds using phased array technology.
The qualification is according to ASME Code Section XI, Appendix VIII, Supplements 2 and 3. The scope covers detection and le...
12/7/04
Aristo Machines Inc. received its ISO 9001:2000 Certification from ABS Quality Evaluations Inc. in Oct. The company designs, manufactures, and services tube end forming systems.
12/7/04
Roll-Kraft has increased production capability by adding a second electrical discharge machine (EDM). The wire machine cuts materials used in the production of roll tooling and the company's auxiliary equipment line.
The machine burns steel into keyways, straightener blocks, die inserts, die bla...
11/9/04
Aristo Machines Inc. has hired Don Leonhard as vice president of engineering, Francis Zhang as a system design engineer, James Allman as a controls technician, and Tracy Woodall as a tool design engineer.
Leonhard has an extensive mechanical engineering background. He was chief engineer at J.D. Gou...
11/9/04
WAFIOS AG, Reutlingen, Germany, has acquired the manufacturing
rights to the tube bending machine product line of TRUMPF Rohrtechnik GmbH + Co.
KG (formerly Pulzer Biegetechnik GmbH), Reutlingen.
The combined product line now includes four CNC machine models
for bending steel tube up to ...
9/14/04
AddisonMcKee Inc. has announced that Enrique Ramos has joined the company as a field service engineer to provide local technical support for Mexico.
Ramos has a mechanical engineering degree from the Technological University of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and experience in tool design and machine tool ...
9/14/04
The second annual TPJ Symposium, which was held Feb. 18-20 in Orlando, Fla., was an industrywide gathering of executives and managers from the tube production, tube fabrication, and equipment manufacturing industries. The symposium was kicked off with a keynote address by William Strauss, senior eco...
6/8/04
Orbitform Group has appointed John W. Cook as engineering manager and John Guerrera as senior proposal engineer.
With more than 37 years’ experience in custom-designed automation machinery, Cook is a certified manufacturing engineer through the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), a se...
5/4/04
Mentor, Ohio-based Roll-Kraft and Chesterfield, Mo.-based Bull Moose Tube have reached an agreement regarding tube and pipe tooling for 2004.
Roll-Kraft will supply new tooling for various size Bull Moose Tube mills located in Gerald, Mo.; Chicago Heights, Ill.; Masury, Ohio; and Burlington, Ont....
4/8/04
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