Tubular Rolling
Includes seamless and welded pipe, tube and OCTG rolling and finishing processes.
Latest News
Baosteel Puts Large Diameter Longitudinal Welding Pipe Line into Production
01 October 2008 - Baosteel officially puts its Large Diameter Longitudinal Welding Pipe Production Line into production, the first such line in China.
SMS Meer to Supply PQF Tube Mill for ArcelorMittal JV in Saudi Arabia
05 September 2008 - SMS Meer will supply a PQF (premium quality finishing) seamless tube plant for ArcelorMittal’s joint venture OCTG plant with the Saudi Bin Jarallah Group.
SMS Meer to Supply Seamless Tube Plant with PQF for Baosteel Subsidiary Yantai
08 August 2008 - SMS Meer will supply an 18-inch premium quality tube finishing plant for Yantai Baosteel Pipe Co.
Sumitomo Metals Expands Capacity for High-End Seamless Pipe Products
10 July 2008 - Sumitomo Metal Industries completes expansion work to add production capacity for high-end seamless pipes, at Steel Tube Works in Amagasaki and Wakayama Steel Works, both part of Sumitomo Metals’ Pipe & Tube Co.
Linde, ArcelorMittal to Highlight Flameless Oxyfuel Technology at AISTech
02 May 2008 - Linde and ArcelorMittal will describe the benefits of using flameless oxyfuel technology in a continuous steel reheat furnace next week at AISTech 2008 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.
Commerce Finds Unfair Dumping of Rectangular Pipe and Tube from Turkey
09 April 2008 - The U.S. Department of Commerce announces its affirmative final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on imports of light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Turkey.
PSI BT to Implement Production Management System for V&M Tubes Facility
02 April 2008 - PSI BT GmbH will implement PSImetals, a production management system, for Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes’ tube mill in Aulnoye, France.
SMS Meer to Supply PQF Seamless Tube Mill for Vallourec & Sumitomo do Brasil
12 March 2008 - Vallourec & Sumitomo Tubos do Brasil has awarded a contract to SMS Meer to supply a new Premium Quality Finishing seamless tube plant.
United Spiral Pipe Breaks Ground for New Facility
03 March 2008 - United Spiral Pipe—a joint venture of United States Steel, Posco, and SeAH Steel—breaks ground for a new state-of-the-art spiral welded pipe manufacturing facility in Pittsburg, Calif.
Danieli and Kocks to Upgrade Seversky Seamless Tube Mill
21 January 2008 - Friedrich Kocks will supply the 3-stand extractor and 14-stand sizing mill for Danieli’s conversion of an existing Pilger mill into a continuous 14-inch seamless tube mill for TMK Group’s Seversky Truboprokatny Zavod subsidiary.
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.
