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Commerce Finds Unfair Dumping of Rectangular Pipe and Tube from Turkey
Apr. 9, 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
Apr. 2, 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
Mar. 12, 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
Mar. 3, 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
Jan. 21, 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
Jan. 3, 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
Dec. 5, 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
Nov. 29, 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
Nov. 7, 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
Sep. 25, 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
Sep. 24, 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
Sep. 24, 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
Sep. 17, 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
Aug. 29, 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
Aug. 9, 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
Jul. 6, 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
Jun. 18, 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
Jun. 1, 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
Jun. 1, 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
May 21, 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.

TMK Standardizes on Broner MES for its Russian Pipe Mills
Apr. 22, 2007 - TMK has standardized on Broner MES technology to improve production monitoring and control at each of its four pipe mills in Russia.

Dofasco Tubular Products Shelby Plant Earns TS 16949 Certification
Feb. 26, 2007 - Dofasco Tubular Products announced that its Shelby, Ohio, plant has been awarded certification for its compliance with the TS 1694

ITC to Conduct Sunset Review of Welded Line Pipe
Feb. 6, 2007 - The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to conduct full five-year "sunset" reviews of the antidumping duty orders on welded large-diameter line pipe imported from Japan an

Arcelor Mittal Enters Partnership for Seamless Tube Mill in Saudi Arabia
Feb. 1, 2007 - Arcelor Mittal has signed a joint venture agreement with the Bin Jarallah Group of companies for the desi

Ipsco to Increase Large Diameter Pipe Capacity
Jan. 29, 2007 - Ipsco Inc. announced plans to further expand its Regina large-diameter pipemaking facility with an additional pipe forming mill and related finishing equipment. The $52.5-million expansion

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