Among the “troika” driving China’s economic growth, fixed asset investment has received particular attention. Recently, a number of provinces have conducted intensive research and supervision on steady investment of structural steel pipe and a number of major projects have been approved and started. It is reported that in the f...

Since 2014, as China’s economy has entered a new normal, various deep-seated problems hidden in the period of rapid economic growth have begun to break out, and serious overcapacity of galvanized steel pipe in the steel industry has surfaced. At the 11th meeting of the central leading group for financial and economic work in November 2015,...

If you’re building a greenhouse, a proper choice of building frame used in projects will be one of your first considerations. Cyclic loadings on structural steel pipes occur because of changes in mechanical and thermal loadings as the system goes from one load set, e.g., pressure, temperature, moment, and force loading to any other load set. For...

In the modern times, hollow section tubes are very popular and widely used as structural materials in some large construction projects around the world. Especially in the recent years, China hollow section tubes have a great demand in the global steel pipe market due to their competitive advantages. Every year, a lot of customers around the worl...

For a long time, welded steel pipe has salient properties that can be utilized to advantage in buried pipelines. There are a few advantages of welded pipe for pipelines in service such as strength, ease of installation, high-flow capacity, leak resistance, long service life, reliability and versatility as well as economy in applications. However...