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Ukrainian SME, a manufacturer of electric-welded thin-walled pipes of various sections, is looking for distributors.

Summary

Profile Type
  • Business Offer
POD Reference
BOUA20230131028
Term of Validity
31 January 2023 - 30 January 2025
Company's Country
  • Ukraine
Type of partnership
  • Commercial agreement
Targeted Countries
  • All countries
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General information

Short Summary
Ukrainian SME, whose main activity is to provide a wide range of electric-welded thin-walled pipes of various sections at prices that will satisfy the capabilities of customers. The main task of the company is to ensure a clear and well-coordinated delivery of products, as well as access to new promising markets. Proposed cooperation through a distribution services agreement. Main advantages: pricing policy, high quality and innovative solutions.
Full Description
The company was founded in 2009 as a manufacturing enterprise producing thin-walled electric-welded pipes. Today MSP is the leading Ukrainian manufacturer of electric-welded thin-walled pipes of various sections: rectangular, square, round, oval, flat-oval, semi-oval (arched), triangular, as well as pipes of a special profile. Thickness range from 0.5mm to 2.0mm. The length of the pipes can reach 12 meters. It is possible to manufacture hot-rolled pipes with a wall thickness of 1.5 to 2.0 mm. Steel grades used in production: 08KP (DC01), 1-3 PS (S235JR). The production range includes a large number of exclusive standard sizes widely used in the implementation of various furniture solutions. Also, some sizes of rectangular pipes are made with a side (on the smaller side) seam.
To date, the production facilities of the enterprise consist of 3 lines, with a diameter of products from 10 mm in a round section to 80x40 mm in a rectangular one, as well as 2 high-tech cutting lines, with a cutting range of 10 mm. A line was purchased that cuts pipes at an angle of up to 30 degrees.
The production equipment park also includes an external deburring unit, which ensures a high quality of the pipe surface in the weld zone.
The company is constantly improving the quality of the cut products, from the introduction of installations for removing burrs from the inner surface of the weld, to the launch of fully automatic high-precision cutting lines, providing an opportunity with an accuracy of 0.1 mm. to produce directly products in the required size of the customer.
Our own fleet of vehicles delivers products both throughout Ukraine and anywhere in Europe.
The company offers the following types of pipes:
- The pipe is round.
- The pipe is semicircular.
- The pipe is arched.
- The tube is square.
- The pipe is oval.
- The pipe is flat-oval.
- The pipe is rectangular.
- The tube is triangular.
- A pipe of a special profile.
The technological process of manufacturing longitudinally welded electric-welded pipes includes several stages:
- Unwinding of sheet metal (coiled steel) and its cutting. The operation is performed using a longitudinal cutting unit, which makes it possible to produce metal strips (strips) of the same width with high accuracy. This further ensures the convergence of the edges of the strips during the formation of the tubular billet.
- Welding strips. For the production of pipes, a continuous supply of metal strip is necessary. This operation is performed using semi-automatic submerged arc welding and ensures the formation of strong and ductile seams with the minimum possible number of defects. The resulting strip is transferred to the drive.
- Forming of tubular blanks. To give the flat billet the shape of a tube, it is passed through a system of horizontal and vertical rolls. Each subsequent pair of rolls reduces the radius of the workpiece until its edges are as close as possible to each other.
- Welding of a longitudinal seam. For this purpose, high-frequency welding, induction method, is used. When using it, the joined edges of the workpiece are heated by high-frequency currents to the melting point, and then squeezed by crimping rollers. The result is a strong and durable connection. This process is very fast and takes no more than three seconds. Then, to improve the appearance and quality of the weld, a deburring operation is performed.
- Profiling. This operation is performed only in the manufacture of profile pipes. To do this, round blanks are passed through forming rolls, which give them a rectangular or square shape.
- Calibration. At this stage, the ovality of the pipes is eliminated and the accuracy of their geometric dimensions and shapes is ensured. For this, the products are first cooled with water, and then passed through the sizing rolls.
Advantages and Innovations
Undoubtedly, the main advantage of a rectangular or square corrugated pipe is its significant spatial rigidity compared to a round pipe.
The thing is that such a closed profile has four stiffeners (two in each mutually perpendicular plane). When a corrugated pipe is used as a bearing beam, and the load is applied at right angles to one of the planes, the bending resistance of the product will be approximately 30 percent higher than that of an equivalent round pipe analogue in weight.
The profile pipe has many advantages:
- Profile pipes cope well with heavy loads and, at the same time, the strength of their design does not undergo major changes.
- The weight of such products is small - it is very convenient during operation.
The cost of raw materials is low, primarily due to easy production.
- Can be used in various metal structures, building products of any complexity.
Stage of Development
  • Already on the market
Sustainable Development Goals
  • Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Partner Sought

Expected Role of a Partner
The scope of activity of the sought partners is the sale of pipes. SMEs are looking for both small businesses and large sales. Potential business partners should have good communications and experience in selling similar or complementary products, experience in international cooperation. The partners' role will be to expand products to new markets.
The expected form of cooperation a distribution services agreement.
Type and Size of Partner
  • SME 50 - 249
  • SME 11-49
Type of partnership
  • Commercial agreement

Dissemination

Technology keywords
  • 02002013 - Moulding, injection moulding, sintering
Market keywords
  • 08005 - Other Industrial Products (not elsewhere classified)
Targeted countries
  • All countries