Tianjin Pipe International Economic & Trading Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tianjin Pipe (Group) Corporation (TPCO). It enjoys independent corporate capacity and specializes in Imp.& Exp. Business and agent of various commodities and technology. Besides global marketing of TPCO’s products, procurement of raw materials, spare parts and equipments from abroad for TPCO, its business includes Sino-foreign cooperative production, processing raw materials on client’s samples, compensation trade, counter trade, sales of import products, mechanical equipment, metal materials and products, petrochemicals and equipment; freightage insurance, foreign labor service and foreign project contract.

Main export of Tianjin pipe International Economic &Trading Corporation are OCTG, line pipe, boiler tube, fluid transmission pipe, hydraulic supporting pipe, high pressure cylinder tube, structural pipe, slotted tube and other special pipes. Others exports products are stainless steel cold rolled coil, copper rod, color coating coil, stainless seamless and welded pipe, pipefittings, valve and equipment for oil extracting.

The export of the company has been growing steadily year-by-year from zero record since 1994. As one of Tianjin state-owned industrial enterprises, the company was listed as the No.1 enterprise of self-support foreign exchange earnings for several times and was honored many times as one of the top 50 exporters in Tianjin. It ranked 408th, 460th and 307th respectively in year 2003, 2004 and 2005 among the top 500 importers & exporters in China. The export reached 250,000 tons, value amounted US$ 260 million and total amount of export & import exceeded US$ 460 million. It is expected that the export value can be up to US$ 500 million.

TPCO has obtained the API Certificate, ISO9001 Quality Management System Certificate, ISO14001 Environmental Management Certificate and OHSMS-18001 Occupational Health & Safety Management System Certificate. TPCO has been granted certificates as qualified supplier successively by Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Qatar, India etc. state oil companies, as well as Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco, Philips, Total etc. western oil companies, totaled more than 50 oil companies, its products are being exported to more than 80 countries and regions.
　

Quality Products
Striving to becomes the world’s top quality producer of tubular products TPCO adheres to internal guidelines, developed around＂five areas refinements＂:
Superior material
Refined smelting
Accurate rolling
Precision finishing
Meticulous work

All products flow through our manufacturing process are manufactured from the highest quality billets and pass through the modern continuous casing process of TPCO’s steel work, whose features are: resulting in high purity, good uniformity and flawless surface. Through the meticulous work of TPCO personnel with most advanced rolling and finishing lines, high quality products with uniform inside and outside surface attain our goal of total quality.

Advanced Means of Quality Inspection
To ensure product quality, a number of on-line inspection equipments have been established to monitor composition analysis, non-destructive testing, wall thickness measurement, drifting, hydrostatic testing and other critical elements of the tubes.

In addition to on-line inspection and testing, TPCO has set up a pipe research institute and four full-time & professional quality inspection stations which are responsible for the analysis, inspection and determination of process quality, quality of incoming raw material, physical and chemical properties of products and technical indexes such as thread parameters to name a few.

Rich Human & Material Resources In R&D
TPCO has strong research and development institutions. Its core competence is the technical center, responsible for all research and development of new products and other creative work. There are teams of highly qualified professionals equipped with advanced instruments and equipment in the technical center to provide the technical guarantee required in new product development.

Total Quality &Customer Service
TPCO has Established proven quality control system in accordance with world-wide standards and are continuously implementing latest proven systems as they become available. The current system was established in accordance with API Q1 specification and ISO9001 standard.

TPCO insists on the system of internal quality examination and ha trained internal examiners organized in groups who play important role in system operations to attain the goal of ‘Total Quality’.

TPCO is committed to the highest level of customer service. Some of the goals set are, on time delivery, close communication and proactive after-sales service to attain full customer satisfaction.