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SMS Meer GmbH is a company of
the SMS group which, under the
roof of the SMS Holding GmbH,
consists of a group of companies
internationally active in plant
construction and mechanical en-
gineering for the steel and non-
ferrous metals industry.
With more than 13,500 employ-
ees, the group generates sales
of about EUR 3.3 billion.
SMS Meer GmbH
Ohlerkirchweg 66
D-41069 Mönchengladbach
Germany
Tel.: +49 2161 350 2030
Fax: +49 2161 350 1870
Companies
Corinth Pipeworks from Athens,
Greece, has signed a contract
with SMS Meer, Germany, for the
supply of a JCOE® large-diameter
pipe mill for longitudinally weld-
ed pipes. With this investment,
Corinth Pipeworks is expanding
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 pro-
duce Longitudinal Submerged-Arc
Welded (LSAW) pipes with out-
side diameters from 18” to 56”,
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 t.
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 Busi-
ness Area in operation. With the
new JCOE® large-diameter pipe
mill, the company is now complet-
ing its range of production tech-
niques for pipe welding.
The new mill is scheduled for com-
missioning in the 1st quarter of
2015.
Corinth Pipeworks orders JCOE®
large-diameter pipe mill
SMS Meer
With the JCOE® forming process an
open-seam tube is produced and
subsequently welded.
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