Case Study
Pipe Producer Pushes the Quality Envelope While Slashing Energy Use
By David G. Kilburn Pipe Mill Segment Director - Lincoln Electric As one of the world’s premier pipe producers, Tata Steel’s LSAW Pipe Mill in Hartlepool, U.K., can produce up to 330,000 metric tons of pipe per year. The mill recently replaced more than 50 of its traditional transformer/rectifiers on five production lines with energy-efficient inverters from the Lincoln Electric Company, integrated through Uhrhan & Schwill GmbH, a Lincol