A NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE FOR 2008
TO ALL OUR MEMBERS & FRIENDS WORLDWIDE
IN THE TUBE & PIPE INDUSTRY

As 2007 comes to a close, we reflect on what has been another exceptional year for the tube and pipe industry.

Exhibitions attended were:

January - Tekno/Tube Arabia Dubai, UAE
May - Tube Russia 2007 Moscow, Russia
October - Tubotech Sao, Paulo, Brazil
October - Tube Southeast Asia Bangkok, Thailand
November - Fabtech Chicago, USA

The ITA was also pleased to organise and co-organise a varied international conference programme during the year:

June - Nagoya Tube Symposium 2007 Nagoya, Japan
September - Pipe & Tube Houston 2007 Texas, USA
September - Tube Ukraine 2007 Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
October - Non-Ferrous Bangkok Seminar Bangkok, Thailand

For 2008, we will once again deliver a full programme of events starting with our Pipe Dream India conference on the eve of the Tube India 2008 exhibition, New Delhi in January; then the most important event for the tube and pipe industry ‘Tube Düsseldorf’, March/April followed by Tube Russia/Metallurgy Litmarsh, Moscow in May; and finally Tube China, Shanghai in September.

We will be at all these events, lending a hand and supporting our members whether exhibiting or just visiting.

To find out more on any of these events or to take part at our conferences, please check our website for the latest information.

So all that remains is for Debi Coleman, Jacqui Dickinson and Phillip Knight of the ITA Secretariat to wish you a peaceful, happy and successful 2008.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our events next year.

The Secretariat of the International Tube Association, Leamington Spa, UK
December 2007.

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Pipe Dream India 08

“Innovations & Technical Realities for Tube & Pipe Production”

Tuesday 12 February 2008, New Delhi, India

As an important support feature for Tube India 2008, which takes place from 13-15 February 2008 in New Delhi, having been re-located from Hyderabad, the ITA will hold its international conference Pipe Dream India 08 on 12 February on the eve of the exhibition.  Now tube and pipe professionals will have twice the reasons for attending India’s most important industry event!

» CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD DELEGATE BROCHURE
AND REGISTRATION FORM (PDF)

We very much hope that your organisation will be interested in participating in the conference.

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Very Important News for Exhibitors and Visitors to Wire and Tube Düsseldorf 2008

Both the International Wire & Machinery Association (IWMA) and sister organisation the International Tube Association (ITA) have provided regular updates and advice on their respective websites about a predicted much higher than normal influx of visitors to Düsseldorf 2008 following the addition of the METAV exhibition.

Despite the associations’ efforts to warn everyone of the implications of this for hotel and travel arrangements there are reports that many exhibitors and visitors are being told by hotels that there is little or no accommodation available for that week.

As respective industry partners for wire and Tube the IWMA and ITA have taken up this issue seriously with Messe Düsseldorf and are pleased to give a more positive update on the current situation. Many hotels are indeed turning away enquirers but we have learned that in some cases they have committed blocks of rooms to the Düsseldorf Marketing & Tourismus bureau (DMT) and that these rooms are by no means yet sold out.

Ms Andrea Baule has reported back to us via Messe Düsseldorf that they still have hotel rooms available from €130 per night as well as rooms in private houses from €40 per night. (The latter were used by some of our staff in 2006 and were very clean, comfortable and conveniently situated).

So our advice to everyone yet to conclude accommodation arrangements is to contact DMT whose details are given below, together with a link to their website.

Phillip Knight
Executive Secretary IWMA/ITA
29 November 2007

DMT Düsseldorf Marketing & Tourismus GmbH
Der Neue Stahlhof
Breite Straße 69
40213 Düsseldorf
Contact: Ms Andrea Baule
Tel: +49-211-1720 22267
Fax: +49-211-1720 23221
email: messe@dus-mt.de
 
Link to website:
http://www.duesseldorf-tourismus.de/hotels_e/default.php  

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Personnel Changes on ITA’s Asia Pacific Management (APMB) Indian Management (IMB) and European Management Boards (EMB)

The ITA’s Asia Board, which is chaired by Mr T. Nakata, is set to see some changes and additions to its strength. Graeme Fitzgerald from OneSteel, Australia has resigned from the APMB following his company’s merger with Smorgon. The new business, OneSteel Australian Tube Mills has pledged its continuing support for the ITA’s APMB and General Manager Tony Schreiber will be formally elected to the board at its next meeting in March 2008. Also set to join the APMB next year are Joseph Chen of Taiwanese company Vega Engineering and Trading and C.N. Won of the Korean Wonjin Co.

Meanwhile new faces on the IMB will be welcomed at their next meeting in New Delhi in February. Joining the IMB and strengthening its non-ferrous sector representation will be Naresh Bhandari of the Bhandari Group and Vibash Gupta of Alcobex.

Finally, the EMB is pleased to have welcomed Friedrich Kehrer of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH to its strength.

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A Highly Successful Move from Singapore to Bangkok

The charming multilingual staff on the joint International Tube Association/International Wire & Machinery Association booth at the inaugural wire/Tube Southeast Asia trade fair were by no means the only attraction in October in Bangkok! In fact the joint exhibition, formerly known as wire/Tube Singapore, attracted higher numbers of visitors than in recent Singapore shows.

The charming staff on the joint ITA/IWMA booth at wire/Tube Southeast Asia 2007

When Messe Düsseldorf Asia (MDA), organisers of the Singapore exhibition, approached the ITA two years ago the Association and its Asia Pacific Board readily gave their full support for the transfer to Bangkok. Given the dynamic growth in the local and closer regional economies it made complete sense to re-locate to a city that is much more of an industrial hub.

Statistics provided by MDA report that Tube Southeast Asia 2007 attracted 130 exhibitors occupying 2,038m2 of space whilst at wire Southeast Asia 2007 258 exhibitors filled 4,122m2. MDA further reported that a total of 7,038 visitors attended the combined three-day trade fair.

The joint ITA/IWMA booth occupied pole position directly in front of the main entrance to the fair and more than 100 combined enquiries for both associations were obtained during the event. It was very noticeable that there was a marked increase in the number of visitors from Thailand, Vietnam and India in particular than at the last Singapore exhibition. Together with the supporting Non Ferrous Bangkok seminar the trade fair proved to be an excellent medium for publicising the activities and benefits of ITA membership and indeed a number of new applications to join the Association were received.

Anecdotal reports from ITA members and exhibitors at Tube Southeast Asia suggest that the move to Bangkok had very tangible benefits and was in every way, apart from the terrible city traffic, a very good move. Incidentally, by the time of the next Bangkok exhibition, scheduled for 13-15 October 2009, the new Skytrain station at the BITEC venue will be open, offering fast, efficient and regular air-conditioned transport to the centre of Bangkok, thus overcoming this one main criticism of the event.

Finally a return to the subject of the local staff hired by the Associations both for their own combined booth and for those exhibitors who took one of the special Sawaddee Ka exhibitor packages. The local staff agency contracted by the ITA and IWMA took considerable trouble to interview and recruit students from engineering faculties at various Bangkok universities to act as interpreters and stand hostesses at the exhibition. The quality of these charming young people was a credit to the agency and many exhibitors told us that they were highly impressed by the staff provided. Whenever the ITA compiles one of its exhibitor packages at events like Tube Southeast Asia or Tube China or Tube Russia we try very hard to find the best possible local staff. When they are as charming as Urb, Bee, Looknam, Aum and Lin, left to right in the photo, it is simply a big bonus!

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The ITA’s Ambitious Technical Event Programme for 2007 Promoted Technical Exchange and Education Worldwide

No one could accuse the ITA of lacking ambition in 2007 with the association having organised or co-organised no less than four technical events!

The first event, co-organised with the Roll Forming Research Committee of the Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity, was held at Nagoya University, Japan in June and, as reported in the previous edition of ITAN this symposium was considered to have been a great success by many of the 180 participants. A good illustration of this is the subsequent higher than usual demand for copies of the papers presented at Nagoya Tube 2007.

In late August another joint event, Pipe & Tube Houston 07, took place in Houston, Texas with 117 delegates. This unique collaboration between the ITA and the American based TPA was reportedly the best conference ever held by the ITA in North America. The programme included technical sessions, round table workshops and plant visits as well as a variety of social activities. Such was the success of the conference that the ITA and TPA are already in early discussions concerning possible future co-operative events.

Every two years the ITA holds its major international conference with past major events taking place in such illustrious venues as Prague, Veracruz (Mexico), Bilbao, Toronto, Goa and Beijing. Now the industrial city of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine has joined the roll of honour following Tube Ukraine International 2007, which was held in September at the Palace of Culture Metallurgists in the city that is situated in the heart of the Ukrainian tube and pipe industry. An incredible total of sixty-nine papers were presented in two conference rooms over two days and an additional twelve papers that could not be accommodated in the timetable were also published in the conference proceedings.

Joint organiser of Tube Ukraine International was the Ukrainian tube association Ukrtruboprom, whose Mrs Nataliya Koryaka was a tower of strength in the planning and implementation of the event, which was attended by 230 delegates. Complementing the conference were twenty-four tabletop exhibits, highly informative plant tours and a wonderful social event for all participants. Very important sponsorship support was received from a number of organisations and the ITA and Ukrtruboprom were very appreciative of this. In particular two major tube companies Centravis (formerly UVIS) and Interpipe offered tremendous support and facilities for the conference.

Feedbacks from delegates to Dnepropetrovsk were very positive. “Many thanks for arranging an excellent conference – one which once again provided a valuable platform to all concerned. We came away with several interesting contacts……..you can count on our full support on all future ITA conferences”, David Gardiner, Inductotherm HWT. “Thanks a lot for the organisation….the meetings and service were perfect. I had a lot of contacts..”, Laurent Jacquemin, Westaflex Automotive Group. The conference was very widely publicised in the region with DNK magazine describing Dnepropetrovsk as the “world capital of the tube industry for three days”.

The non-ferrous sector was not forgotten in the ITA’s 2007 technical programme. Although all the events reported above included a number of non-ferrous sector papers the ITA’s Technical Management Committee decided that it was timely to organise a seminar exclusively for this important part of the industry. Following discussions with sister organisation the International Wire & Machinery Association a joint tube and wire event Non Ferrous Bangkok took place during the new wire/Tube Southeast Asia exhibition in the Thai capital in October. Eleven speakers presented thirteen papers to an audience of around fifty delegates. The programme included pure non-ferrous wire presentations, joint wire and tube topics and finally pure tube topics.

Once again the above series of events clearly exemplifies the main ethos of the ITA in promoting technical excellence, education and technical exchange throughout the world.

Papers from all of these technical events can be purchased from the ITA with special discounts for members. CDROMs of the complete proceedings are available for the Dnepropetrovsk, Houston and Bangkok programmes.

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Important Notice Regarding ITA Annual General Meeting & Free Members’ Lunch at Tube Düsseldorf 2008

All members of the ITA are advised that the 29th AGM will take place at 12.00 hours on Wednesday 2 April in the Congress Centre South restaurant. Members will receive further reminders and a copy of the agenda in advance of the meeting. Agendas will also be available from the ITA booth 6A03 just inside the main entrance to hall 6. (Owing to the addition of the Metav exhibition please note that the ITA booth has been re-located from hall 4 to hall 6).

Immediately after the AGM there will be the free members’ buffet lunch in the restaurant, one of the many benefits of association membership. This has always been considered the best networking opportunity of the Tube Düsseldorf week and 2008 should not prove to be an exception, given the ongoing increase in member numbers over recent years. Again, members can call at booth 6A03 to receive information about the lunch and if they have pre-registered, collect their name badges.

All members of the ITA are also entitled to a free entrance voucher to the exhibition and these will be posted out in advance of the event. Any industry professionals reading this notice who are non-members still have plenty of time to apply for membership and take advantage of these special benefits at Tube Düsseldorf 2008 as well as other major ones like a free subscription to Tube & Pipe Technology magazine and use of the meeting rooms and office and interpreting services on the ITA booth at this and other major tube exhibitions.

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IMPORTANT FREIGHT INFORMATION FOR UK EXHIBITORS AT WIRE/TUBE DUSSELDORF 2008

The IWMA and ITA are pleased to confirm that Schenker in the UK has been appointed the official freight forwarder for the UK and Associations' group of exhibitors. This follows a review of competitive quotes and service levels provided. We will also be using Schenker for Tubotech 2007 in Brazil; wire/Tube Southeast Asia 2007 in Bangkok;Wire 07 Bologna conference; Fabtech 2007 in Chicago;Tube India 2008 in Delhi; Tube Russia 2008 in Moscow and wire/Tube China 2008 in Shanghai.

Contact details for the UK office are as follows:

Craig Yiasoumi
Schenker Ltd, Fairs and Exhibitions Services
Unit 6, West Mayne Industrial Park
Bramston Way
Southfields Industrial Estate
Laindon, Essex
SS15 6TP
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1268 632 209
Fax: +44 (0)1268 416 490
craig.yiasoumi@schenker.com
www.schenker.co.uk

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Tube India 2008

New Location for Tube India International 2008
– A Very Positive Step

Messe Düsseldorf GmbHtogetherwith its new Indian subsidiary,Messe Düsseldorf India Pvt.Ltd.and Messe Essen GmbH (organiser of Schweissen und Schneiden Essen), will once again jointly organise the3rd Tube India Internationaland Schweissen & Schneiden Indiaexhibitionsfrom 13-15 February, 2008 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. A concurrent event, Metallurgy India,will also take place.

Tube India International 2008 is presented and managed by the organisers ofTube Düsseldorf, the world's No.1 Trade Fair for the tube and pipe industries. It was decided to re-locate the exhibition to New Delhi for several reasons. New Delhi is the heart of India and Tube India International 2008 is now a showcase event.Officials and decision makers from the Government of India, public and private sectors are very much based in the capital of the country and in nearby business areas.

Major users of steel, e.g. manufacturers of components, bicycles, etc. are based in North India. New Delhi is well connected and has the best of world-renowned hotels, making it more convenient for people to travel and stay in the city, notwithstanding that the month of February is the ideal time to visit the beautiful sights of this historical place.

The move from south to north India was a conscious decision as the users of steel on a large scale are based in the north of the country. Tube India International 2008 provides an opportunity to have mutually beneficial business relations for both domestic and overseas exhibitors. The show will also provide ample opportunity to view the latest technology and know-how in the metal industry in India today. The last exhibition, held in February 2005 at the HITEX Fair Grounds, Hyderabad, attracted 114 exhibitors and 5000 visitors. In 2008, about 150 exhibitors and 7000 visitors are expected to participate.

Pragati Maidan, India's world-class exhibition complex, covers 149 acres of prime land in the heart of India's capital. It offers about 61,290 sqm of covered exhibition space in 16 halls plus 10,000 sqm of open display area. The state-of-the-art exhibition halls have enhanced the appeal of Pragati Maidan as the ideal center for an increasing number of fair organisers and business visitors from different parts of the world.

Mr. Udo Schürtzmann, a seasoned trade show expert with a wealth of international experience, is the Managing Director of the new Messe Düsseldorf Indian subsidiary. He comments, ‘’entering the Indian market presents us with a formidable challenge. In the years ahead, our aim is to consolidate our own business and ramp up Messe Düsseldorf's agency activities on the subcontinent’’.

» CLICK HERE FOR EXHIBITOR APPLICATION FORM

» CLICK HERE FOR BROCHURE AND MORE INFORMATION

» CLICK HERE FOR ASSISTANCE WITH TRAVEL AND HOTELS (PDF)

As an important supporting event for the exhibition, the International Tube Association will be holding a conference in New Delhi on the eve of the exhibition, 12th February 2008, offering even more reasons for tube and pipe industry professionals to congregate in the capital next year.  For details of the conference “Pipe Dream India – Innovations & Technical Realities for Tube & Pipe Production”

For more information about Tube India International 2008, please contact:

Ms. Leena Dugh
Project Manager
Messe Düsseldorf India Pvt.Ltd.
1, Commercial Complex, 2nd Floor
Pocket H & J, Sarita Vihar
New Delhi 110 076, INDIA
Tel.: +91 (0) 11 2697 1745/1056/1066
Fax: +91 (0) 11 2697 1746
Email: DughL@md-india.com
Website: www.md-india.com

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ITA Appoints Official Representatives in
Peoples Republic of China

The ITA is delighted to announce that it has reached an agreement with Mr Ding Guoliang, Chairman of the China Cold Roll-forming Steel Association (CCRSA) for his association to become its official representatives in China.

Based in Nanjing the CCRSA was founded in October 1985 and currently has more than 160 members. The output of these members exceeds six million tons per year, accounting for around three percent of the total steel products output in China.  Mr Ding has accepted an invitation for the CCRSA to be represented on the Asia Pacific Management Board of the ITA and has designated his deputy Professor Jiying Liu to take on that role.

The CCRSA will be active in promoting membership of the ITA throughout China and hopes to attract a significant number of new members in the next few years.  It will now be even easier for tube and pipe professionals to join and pay their membership fees and renewals locally through the following local CCRSA office: -

ITA China Secretariat, Ms Zhang Ruilin
CCRSA
4-26-301 Chunguangli Hongjiayuan
Nanjing 210012
Phone: (+86) 25 5261 6203
Fax: (+86) 25 5261 6802
Email: admin.chinalw@gmail.com

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