Pipes are used for shipping oil and gas from oil fields to export terminals, refineries and end-users. The global pipeline transportation industry is driven by increasing global energy demand and fuel trade.
Welded steel pipes are also used in construction and infrastructure sectors for different applications. These applications include scaffoldings, electrical and light poles, structural columns and beams in steel structure buildings like stadium roofs, metro and railway stations. These pipes can also be used in the sewage line and water supply lines.
The chemical industry is also one of the major consumers of welded steel pipes. Steel pipes are used to construct chemical processing lines, industrial sheds, and mechanical structures. Some of the sub-sectors include petrochemicals, agrochemicals, construction chemical, resins and polymers, synthetic foods processing plants, electronic chemicals, gas manufacturing, cement plants, pesticides manufacture, fertilizers industry, pharmaceutical industry and acid manufactures etc.
Welded steel pipes are also used in the automotive industry in making body frames supporting column and structures. These pipes and tubes are also used in engine exhausts.
Other end-user sectors include the mechanical sector, industrial sector, shipbuilding, energy and power sectors and metal furniture. In the mechanical industry, welded tubes find their applications in mechanical structures of machines, rollers of conveyor belts or in other cylindrical structures like hydraulic lifts, mills, production lines etc.
