INDUSTRY NEWS COMMENT W Vince Maynard


elcome to the fi rst print issue of IMT 2017. With four printed issues this year scheduled these are supported by our E-newsletters eight times a year ensuring a monthly fl ow of information. Our E-Newsletters are


proving ever more popular with more of you are sign up to receive them in the last three months compared to the previous six months, our newsletters and print issues are also supported via the website www. internationalmetaltube.com for those news items that are very time sensitive.


Last year we were asked to start including information on sheet metal as so many of you our readers also worked with sheet as part of the production and processing activity, this has now been fully integrated into all aspects of IMT and continues to be a very popular subject.


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Coming up in the next three months, to contribute to any topic please email Vince Maynard at imtmagazine@virginmedia.com


April -E – Newsletter – Measuring & testing May - E – Newsletter – Sheet metal


June issue Tube in an automotive setting Handling & Bundling Technology (including vehicles, logistics & Cranes) Modern Tube & Pipe mills


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ISSN 2047-9662 www.internationalmetaltube.com www.internationalmetaltube.com EXHIBITIONS IMT March 2017 1 30 WELDING TUBE BENDING 25 PRODUCTS & EQUIPMENT 14 22 INDUSTRY NEWS


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