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SMS Meer to Provide PQF Seamless Tube Plant for Anhui Tianda

03 January 2008 - SMS Meer will supply a new 500,000 tonnes/year seamless tube plant featuring PQF technology to Anhui Tianda Oil Pipe of China.

Domestic Stainless Tube Producers Express Concern over Imports from China

05 December 2007 - Domestic producers representing the Seamless Stainless Tube Trade Action Committee (SSTTAC) express growing concern with the rapidly expanding increasing volumes of low-priced seamless stainless steel tubing from China.

SMS Meer to Supply Large-Diameter Pipe Mill for ChTPZ Group

29 November 2007 - SMS Meer will supply the machines and equipment for a new large-diameter pipe mill for JSC Chelyabinsk in Russia.

Commerce Dept. to Impose Tariffs on Steel Pipe from China

07 November 2007 - U.S. pipe makers and the United Steelworkers applaud the U.S. Department of Commerce for its preliminary finding that the Chinese government has been providing improper subsidies on Chinese circular welded steel pipe exports to the U.S.

SMS Meer to Supply Largest-Ever Welded Tube Plant for Jiangbei Steel Processing

25 September 2007 - Jiangbei Steel Processing and Logistics, part of the WISCO steel group, places an order with SMS Meer to supply a 26-inch high-frequency welded tube plant capable of producing up to 350,000 tonnes of pipes per year, the largest of its kind in the world.

SMS Meer to Provide Three-Roll Piercer for Mannesmannrohr Sachsen

24 September 2007 - SMS Meer will convert V&M Deutschland’s push-bench plant at the Zeithain Works into a cross-roll piercing and elongating plant with the installation of a three-roll piercer.

SMS Meer to Upgrade Rohrwerk Maxhütte Stretch-Reducing Mill

24 September 2007 - Rohrwerk Maxhütte contracts SMS Meer to repair and modernize an existing stretch-reducing mill at Sulzbach-Rosenberg, including the supply of additional rolls stands and upgrades to the mill’s drives, automation systems, and rotary saw.

SMS Meer to Supply 4th Large-Diameter Pipe Mill in China

17 September 2007 - SMS Meer will supply a large-diameter pipe mill equipped for the patented JCOE process that will produce large-diameter longitudinal SAW steel pipes for Zhongyou BSS Petropipe.

BMZ Starts up SMS Meer-Supplied Seamless Tube Mill

29 August 2007 - Byelorussian Steel Works celebrates the official opening of a complete SMS Meer seamless tube plant featuring PQF three-roll finishing technology.

Dofasco Tubular to Sell Elizabethtown Tube Facility to Samuel Manu-Tech

09 August 2007 - Dofasco Tubular Products signs definitive purchase agreement for the sale of its Elizabethtown stainless tubemaking facility to Samuel Manu-Tech of Mississauga, Ont.

Northwest Pipe Acquires Continental Pipe Manufacturing

06 July 2007 - Northwest Pipe announces the acquisition of the operating assets of Continental Pipe Manufacturing of Pleasant Grove, Utah.

Danieli to Supply Seamless Tube Plant for JESCO

18 June 2007 - Jubail Energy Services places order with Danieli for the supply of what will be the first seamless tube plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Japanese Steel Industry Welcomes ITC OCTG Decision

01 June 2007 - Japanese steelmakers welcomed the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision to eliminate anti-dumping duties on oil country tubular goods from Japan.

ITC to Revoke Orders for OCTG Imports

01 June 2007 - The U.S. International Trade Commission will revoke its existing antidumping duty orders on imports of oil country tubular goods from Argentina, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Mexico.

SMS Meer to Supply Finishing Center for Pervouralsk

21 May 2007 - OAO Pervouralsky Novotrubny Works, part of the ChTPZ Group, Russia, has placed an order with SMS Meer for a complete finishing center for their existing pipe plant.