The novel coronavirus and the metal fabrication supply chain

“A containership showed up at the Port of Los Angeles [on March 9]. You would think this would be a nonevent at the Port of Los Angeles, except this containership was the first to show up from China in almost 10 days. It was sort of like the Navy coming into an 18th century port, and boy, people were excited.”

JSW Steel Upgrades Reheating Furnaces

Fives received an order from JSW Steel, India’s leading steel producer, for an upgrade project of its reheating furnaces at JSW Steel Vijayanagar Works, which currently produces 12 million tons per year. Fives will modernize two reheating furnaces to increase their efficiency and capacity from 250 tons per hour to 295 tons per hour to meet the new requirements of the hot-strip mill N1. Both walking-beam furnaces were previously supplied by Fives. The project for both furnaces is scheduled to be completed by 2021.

Cleveland-Cliffs Completes Acquisition of AK Steel

Tube Manufacturing | Sandvik To Provide Steel Tube Umbilicals For Mero Oil Field Offshore Brazil

Tube Testing | Sikora’s Laser series 2000 measures metal tube diameter, ovality

Tube Processing | BLM GROUP’s Twincut cuts two tubes of different lengths

BLM GROUP USA offers the Twincut CNC tube sawing machine capable of cutting parts in two different lengths simultaneously. Tubes are fed automatically, cut, and unloaded automatically, and the double-bar configuration more than doubles output, the company reports.

Global oil & gas industry deals total $9.68bn in January 2020

Total oil & gas industry deals for January 2020 worth $9.68 billion were announced globally, according to GlobalData's deals database.

Tube Manufacturing | Thermatool delivers tube production equipment to L&R Industries

The worldwide leader in High Frequency Solid-State Induction Welding for tube and pipe applications, Thermatool, East Haven, Conn., has supplied equipment for a new mill in L&R Industries Inc.’s mechanical steel tube division in Mountain Grove, Mo.

Tube Processing | TRUMPF offers TruMatic 1000 fiber combination system

TRUMPF, the former exhibitor of Tube China, has developed the TruMatic 1000 fiber combination punch/laser machine, a compact system that offers a working range of 5 by 10 ft.

Tube Manufacturing | Schwarze-Robitec: General Overhaul of Tube Bending Machines

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