JOINT CONFERENCE
Pipe & Tube Pittsburgh 2010, October 3-5, 2010
Pipe and Tube Pittsburgh 2010 provisional programme
The next joint ITA/TPA conference takes place in Pittsburgh, USA from 3-5 October 2010. Included in the varied provisional programme are carefully selected technical papers, video tours of four plants, keynote economic and overview presentations, round table discussions and table top exhibits.
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Monday, October 4 from 08:30 hours:
Market Overview – The Americas - Steel Orbis
Soucone – Reduced Production Costs and New Design Potential for Conical Steel Poles, Mathias Binder, Soutec Ltd.
Tube Welding Fluxes – Yehuda Baskin, Superior Flux & Manufacturing Co.
Laser Fabricating in Structural Tube and Pipe – Jeff Arendas, BLM Group USA Corporation
Launching DP780 Light Wall Tube at ArcelorMittal Dofasco – Z. Kent Li, ArcelorMittal
Precise, Seamless, Superalloy Tubes Made with the Flowform Process – Matthew Fonte, Dynamic Flowform Corp.
Castrip® Technology – Mary Becker, Nucor Sheet Mill Group
Video Tour – V & M Starr
Keynote Speaker: Manufacturing Recovery – Fact or Fiction? – Chris Kuehl, FMA Economist and founder, Armada Corporate Intelligence
Automatic Data Collection Technology and the Power of the Internet to Drive Continuous Improvement – Joe McHenry, Profit Finders
Producing Premium HFW Pipes with Large Squeezing Out – Lia Xingtao, Baosteel Iron and Steel Company
Draw Bench Quick Changeover Technology to Accommodate Ever Changing Smaller Orders and ‘Just in Time’ Deliveries – Andreas Bultmann and Carey Krueger, Bultmann Machines
Making Tubes with Discontinuous Cross Section by Means of 3D Roll Forming –Albert Sedlmaier, dataM Sheet Metal Solutions GmbH
Producing Precision OD Tubes & Pipes Using Rotary Sizing Technology, Kusakabe Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd.
New linear Cage Forming System, Vittorio Travini, Olimpia 80 s.r.l.
Video Tours – Brass & Copper Company and Drawn Metal Tube Company
Tuesday, October 5 from 08:30 hours
The World Outside of the Americas, Preston Pipe Market Overview
Bar Code Identification of Pipe and Tubes – David Anderson, InfoSight Corporation
Finishing Equipment for Welded OCTG – Chad Rhodes, Bronx/Taylor-Wilson
Cost Savings by a New Cutting Process for Steel Tubes, Bars, and Profiles – Hans Jorg Braun, Reika GMBH & Co. KG
Fatigue Studies on High Frequency Induction Welded (HFIW) Steel Tubes – An Insight into Fatigue Life Enhancement Opportunities – Palaniyapillai Shanmugam and Ramamurthy Natarajan, Corporate Technology Center, Tube Products of India, Avadi
Video Tour – Latrobe Steel
Wall Thickness Measurement and Determination of Wall Thickness Distribution on Hot Tube – A Comparison of Systems – Burkhard Schottler, IMS Messsysteme
Smart Annealing for Tube and Pipe – Jeff Pierson, Thermatool Corporation
An Update on the Application of Ultrasonic Energy to Tube Drawing – Nicholas
Maropis, Maropis Technical Enterprises, Inc.
Method for Simulation and Development of the Forming Process in Tube Welding Lines – Axel Rossbach, SMS Meer
Video Tour – Baosteel