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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. Moy 1, 1973 35
