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Large And Small

Pipe Bends Available

From New Company

A new company known as Pipe

Benders, Inc. has begun commerci- al pipe-bending operations in Du- luth, Minn., with capacity to sup- ply industries worldwide with sin- gle, compound, large and short radius bends in pipe from 6 inches to 60 inches in diameter.

According to company president

Robert M. Meierhoff, the company will employ the largest and most sophisticated automatic pipe^bend- ing equipment in the world. Bends in both heavy and light wall thick- nesses can be made in a wide range of pipe materials, including car- bon, stainless and chrome-moly steels and aluminum, copper, and nickel alloys.

In addition to its pipe-bending operations, the company will pro- vide complete physical and metal- lurgical testing facilities to test bending procedures and to assure that quality requirements meet the specifications as demanded in in- dustries where pipe bends are most commonly used, such as gas and oil transmission, power generation, pulp and paper processing, chemi- cal processing, shipbuilding and refining.

According to Mr. Meierhoff, the company was formed by parties long associated with pipe fabrica- tion and mechanical construction in response to the need for pipe- bending facilities to handle the in- creasingly popular large-diameter pipe.

Consideration for the Duluth lo- cation included not only immediate rail and interstate freeway access, but also Duluth's status as a St.

Lawrence Seaway port for receiv- ing and shipping of pipe and pipe bends.

Further information may be ob- tained from Robert Meierhoff, Pipe

Benders, Inc., P.O. Box 396, Du- luth, Minn. 55801.

Army Engineers Ask

For Proposals On One

Steel Derrick Boat

The Army Engineers have asked for proposals for one welded steel derrick boat with the following di- mensions: maximum length, 150 feet; width, 82 feet, and a loaded draft of 7 feet 6 inches. The vessel would have a 90-foot boom crane test load of 270,000 pounds, and a 130-foot boom crane test load not under 112,- 500 pounds.

Requests, which must be submitted by May 15, 1973, should be sent to

U.S. Army Engineer District, Louis- ville, 600 Federal Place, Louisville,

Ky 40402. Reference: DACW 27- 73-R-0010.

Elpac Inc. Subsidiary

Bludworth Shipyard

Buys Three Drydocks

Bludworth Shipyard, Inc., marine repair and construction subsidiary of

Elpac, Inc., located on the Houston

Ship Channel, has purchased three drydocks which will provide addition- al marine repair service to the Hou- ston area. Two sections have been joined and are in service, and the third one is expected to be in service by June 15, 1973.

The three sections measure 150 feet long, 100 feet wide and 24 feet high, with 76 feet between the wing walls. The lifting capacity is approxi- mately 1,700 tons.

The drydocks were towed to Hous- ton from Port Lavaca, where they were purchased from B-R Dredging

Company.

Bludworth Shipyard's 22 acres on

Brady Island in the Ship Channel in- cludes 10 work stations, two marine railways capable of handling two ves- sels each at a time, and six dockside work stations.

The yard has just completed 1,000 feet of bulkheading adjacent to its existing railways and on the Ship

Channel. Also in the finishing stages is an enclosed 16,000-square-foot fabricating building and a new office building.

Capital improvements at Bludworth

Shipyard since October 1972 total approximately $1,500,000. This yard is rapidly developing into one of the most modern and best equipped ma- rine repair and construction facilities in the West Gulf area.

Elpac, based in Houston, has Cali- fornia operations in both electronic component manufacturing and road resurfacing, but is heavily concen- trated in oil and gas services, as well as oil and gas production. The stock is traded over-the-counter.

DEVCON distributors supplying M-5 Marine

Repair Kits

BAHRAIN

The international Agencies Co. Ltd.

P.O. Box 584

Cable: INTERC0L

Phone: 4275, 4166, 3607, 5931/2

BELGIUM

Compagnie Commerciale Kreglinger, S.A.

Grote Markt 9 2000 Antwerp

Cable: KREGPLASTICS

Phone: 329889 (15.1)

CANADA

Dumart, Ltd. 671 Wilson St.

St. John, N.B.

Phone: (506) 672-6370

Industrial Plastics 2105 Douglas St.

Victoria, B.C.

Phone: (604) 386-1477

E.B. Peerless Ltd. 5934 Fraser Street

Vancouver, B.C.

Phone: (604) 327-1181

W.N. White & Co. 213 Bedford Highway

Rockingham

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Phone: (902) 454-6431

CANARY ISLANDS

Alcorde, S.L.

Benecharo, 1 - 3°

Las Palmas

Cable: ALCORDE LAS PALMAS

Phone 26 1324 - 26 1328 - 26 0284

FINLAND

AB Axel Von Knorrings Tekniska Byra

P.O. Box 38020

SF-00380 Helsinki 38

Cable: MASKINAXEL

Phone: 554488

FRANCE

C.O.M.E.T. 10, Avenue Eugene-Gazeau 60, 304 Senlis

Cable: COMELEVAL-PARIS

Phone: 455-35-40

GERMANY

A. Friedrich Kruse KG

Geeren 26-28 (Postfach 1321) 28 Bremen 1

Phone:(0421) 310648

Louis Taxt

P.O. Box 50-1528

Oelkersallee 29 2 Hamburg

Cable: TAXIT HAMBURG

Phone: 431007

GREECE

Stelios Athanassacopoulos & Co. O.E. 59, Platonos Street

Athens 208,

Cable: AGENCITA - ATHENS

Phone: 547 - 117

HOLLAND

Machine-En Gereedschappenhandel Tools N.V.

Schakelstraat 21 (P.O. Box 8040)

Amsterdam 1016

Cable: TOOLS AMSTERDAM

Phone: (020) - 822655

Van Gelder Compagnie N.V.

Schuttevaerweg 60

Postbox 660

Rotterdam, 3008

Cable: VEEGEEC0 - ROTTERDAM

Phone:(010) 156622

HONGKONG

Casey Company, Ltd. 1914, Prince's Building,

Chater Road

Cable: CASEYC0 - HONGKONG

Phone: H-239619 H-242916 H-231652 H-242906

IRAN

Boroudat Company Ltd. 14 Sagheb Street

Roosevelt Avenue 15164 Tehran 5

Cable: BOROUDAT COMPANY LTD. 1445 TEHRAN

Phone: 830873-4 / 827328

ITALY

Rimassa, S.A.S.

Via A. Cecchi, 13 16129 Genova

Cable: AMERIT00LS

Phone: 56.62.68 - 58.13.23

KUWAIT

Arabi W.L.L.

Safat P.O. Box 4090 cable: HAMSEF - KUWAIT

Phone: 210-07

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES

Philipsburg Utilities Co., N.V. inc.

Post Office Box 18

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

SAUDI ARABIA

National Auto Parts Distributor Co.

P.O. Box 79

Alkhobar

Cable: NAPCO ALKHOBAR

Phone: 42663

SPAIN

Navinter, S.A.

Muelle de Uribitarte (Esquina Deposito Franco)

Bilbao -1,

Phone: 215405 y 215261

SWEDEN

A/B Eskilstuna-Boden

P.O. Box 476

S-401 27 Goteborg 1

Phone: 031/27 54 20

TAIWAN

Fu Yen Trading Co., Ltd. 83, Chin Hua Street, Taipei

Xai wan

Cable: WAIC0 - TAIWAN

Phone: 25216

THAILAND

United Machinery Co. Ltd. 406-414 Worachakr Rd.

P.O. Box 1618, Near S.A.B.

Bangkok

Cable: UMAC BANGKOK

Phone: 211673, 217223, 212481

UNITED KINGDOM

Burnyeat Ltd. 5/9 Dod Street

Limehouse, London, E. 14

Phone: LIMEHOUSE (01-987) 2484

Butlers Stores Ltd. 13/16 West Smithfield, London, E.C. 1

Phone: City (01-248) 1212

Mersey Equipment Co.,

Arc House 121 Corporation Street

Birkenhead, Liverpool, Cheshire

Phone: Birkenhead (051-647) 9751

Watts Finchem Ltd.,

Ships Stores 9 St. Helens Place

London, E.C. 3

Phone: London Wall (01-588) 5216

UNITED STATES

Gulf Coast Marine Supply 501 Stimrod Road

Mobile, Alabama

Phone: (205) 432-4465

Marine Sales, Inc. 835 Tchoupitoulas St.

New Orleans, La.

Phone: 524-6549

Pedley Knowles Co. 533 Second Street

San Francisco, California

Phone: (415) 421-9500

Texas Marine & Industrial Supply 8050 Harrisburg Blvd.

Houston, Texas

Phone: (713) 923-9771

H.S. White Co. 251 19th Street

Brooklyn, New York

Phone: (212) 768-5300

O.C. & K.R. Wilson, Inc. 32 N. Moore St.

New York, New York

Phone: (212) 227-2326

For names of other distributors, contact Devcon offices on facing page.

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