News

First Quarter 2010

Looking Ahead

Alloy Metals and Tubes International is excited about 2010 and believes that our cyclical business is due to recover!

We enter 2010 in a business climate that is considerably more settled, if not positive, than what we saw a year ago. Excited about the outlook of the future and the potential for growth, we are ready to put our plans into action. Our inventory is replenished, our people are better trained and our energy is focused on servicing the needs of our customers.

Looking back to 2009, we saw the Baker Hughes Rig Count, a weekly compilation of the number of working drilling rigs, dip to a low of 876 in the US at mid year. By mid-January 2010, there are 1,248 rigs working – more than 40% above the 2009 low mark - and we expect that to translate into increased business opportunities for companies in our markets. We see the stabilization of the financial markets and the leveling off of unemployment rates, and it leads us to feel as if the worst has passed.

During the downturn, Alloy Metals and Tubes International remained active. We have been working on bringing new products to the market, training our people, streamlining our processes, and investing in our business with the goal of continuing to provide excellent service to our customers.

Alloy Metals and Tubes International has made our plan for 2010, and it is a positive one. We seek to continue to build our inventory with what our customers have told us they need, while keeping our pencils sharp to be sure we remain flexible and competitive. We will be out in the markets, and we will be working for our customers to fill their needs and find the best products that make them the most successful.

Let us know how we can help you grow in 2010!

Curt Kates, president

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Nitronic 50® Tubing

Nitronic 50® Stainless Steel (UNS S20910/XM-19) is an austenitic steel that possesses a unique blend of strength, including twice the yield strength at room temperature, and corrosion resistance superior to that of Stainless Steels 316, 316/L, 317 and 317/L. Nitronic 50® owns good mechanical properties across a wide range of temperatures, does not become magnetic when cold worked or cooled to sub-zero temperatures, and enjoys excellent corrosion resistance in harsh environments.

In applications where SS Types 316, 316/L, 317 and 317/L might only be marginally effective, Nitronic 50® tubing often proves to be the alloy of choice. These applications are seen throughout a wide variety of industries – petroleum, petrochemical, chemical, fertilizer, nuclear fuel recycling, pulp and paper, textile, food processing and marine – and include many different things – pumps, valves and fittings, fasteners, cables, chains, screens and wire cloth, marine hardware, boat and pump shafts, heat exchangers, springs and photographic equipment. Alloy Metals and Tubes International provides Nitronic 50® tubing in standard instrumentation sizes and also as custom mechanical tubes to the oil field service industry to serve as housings for down-hole tools.

Alloy Metals and Tubes International, stocking and supplying Nitronic 50® tubing to meet the diverse needs of customers in varied markets and applications, seeks to be your preferred quality supplier of Nitronic 50® tubing. Contact us, or send us a request for a quote today.

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Contact us today and to get a competitive quote on all of our instrumentation tubing.
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Fax: 713.464.9194
Phone: 713.935.0100

Subsea Tieback Forum and Exhibition

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Alloy Metals and Tubes International will be an exhibitor at the 2010 Subsea Tieback Forum and Exhibition in Galveston, TX at the Moody Gardens Hotel & Conference Center, from March 2 -4. Come by our booth (#1209) and meet us, and let’s talk about how we can help you with your tubing needs. Last year we met lots of old friends, and made some new ones, and we are looking forward to the event this year so we can add to our support of the offshore energy industry. Over 2,500 attendees and 150 exhibitors are expected at this year’s conference. You can’t afford to miss it.

Strength under pressure, corrosion resistance in the hostile offshore environment, and light weight tubing solutions are the kind of benefits Alloy Metals and Tubes International offers to our customers in the offshore energy industry. Our nickel and nickel-chrome or titanium alloys offer solutions to the complex problems and challenges faced in the deep frontier. The high quality mills that we use provide materials that can be trusted to last a lifetime in the deep applications that require long life. Whether you need instrumentation tubing for subsea equipment or topsides, or custom mechanical tubes for MWD or LWD applications; Alloy Metals and Tubes International can deliver the goods. We want to be your 3PL supplier! We can manage your material from the mill through machining, heat treating, manufacturing, testing and inventory monitoring.

We hope to see you in Galveston!