Corinth Pipeworks Orders Pipe Mill from SMS Meer
06/21/2013 - Corinth Pipeworks in Athens, Greece, has signed a contract with SMS Meer for the supply of a JCOE® large-diameter pipe mill for longitudinally welded pipes.
With this investment, Corinth Pipeworks will expand its product range in order to meet the growing worldwide demand for high-strength pipes for oil and gas extraction and transit.
The new mill will be able to produce longitudinal submerged-arc welded (LSAW) pipes with outside diameters from 18- to 56-inches, wall thicknesses up to 40-mm and pipe lengths up to 18.3-m in high-strength steel grades up to X100. The annual capacity will be 400,000 tonnes.
The pipes from Corinth Pipeworks will be used by its customers in future energy supply projects — for example in the Mediterranean region, the Gulf of Mexico, Latin America, West and East Africa and in the North Sea.
Corinth Pipeworks has already an HF welded pipe plant and a spiral pipe mill from the SMS Meer Business Area in operation. With the new JCOE® large-diameter pipe mill, the company is now completing its range of production techniques for pipe welding.
The new mill is scheduled for commissioning in the first quarter of 2015.
Pictured below: With the JCOE forming process, an open-seam tube is produced and subsequently welded.
