Application Areas

Seamless hot-rolled steel tubes from VALLOUREC & MANNESMANN TUBES have a wide range of applications in our modern world. Here are the main industrial branches which require different tube and pipe products suited to their special applications:

Oil & Gas Industry

Drill pipe, casing, tubing, riser pipe, couplings (OCTG)  Machined tubular accessories  Line pipe for offshore and onshore projects

Chemical & Petrochemical Industries

Line pipe

Power Generation

Boiler tube and pipe  ID controlled pipe and piping components, machined  Multi-rifled boiler tubes, cold-drawn  Feedwater heater tubes, cold-drawn

Mechanical Engineering

Steel tube and pipe, unalloyed and alloyed  Mechanical tubing (MecaVal, MBS tubes)  Steel tube and pipe in weldable fine-grain steels  Structural hollow sections (MSH)  Machined components

Automotive Industry

Steel tube and pipe, unalloyed and alloyed  Mechanical tubing (MecaVal, MBS tubes)  Axle tubes

Construction & Civil Engineering

Structural hollow sections (MSH)  TECNIPILES for foundations

Mining Industry

Tubes for hydraulic props and cylinders  Machined hollow bodies for blind-end cylinders  Pipe for free-hanging shaft columns

Hollows for further processing

for oil and gas field tubular goods (OCTG)  for precision steel tubes  for roller bearing tubes  for pipe fittings  for gas cylinders and pressure vessels