While any one particular size of pipe or tube will fit the requirements of many different customers, what happens to the pipe or tube when it arrives at it final location varies as much as TSI customer vary. Some of the value TSI provides lies in it abilities to provide modest processing of pipe and tube prior to delivery.

The benefit it TSI customers is that (1) the material requires less first-stage processing equipment on site; (2) its customers devote less space to storing and processing material; and (3) its customers have little or no scrap costs since TSI has systems and procedures to make the most efficient use of material.

These savings can translate into production, capital, time, labor and other savings.

Material Preparation at TSI includes, but is not limited to:

• Cutting to length, square and mitre cutting, close tolerance production cutting
• Deburring
• Surface Preparation, including sandblasting, wheel-abrating, steam-cleaning, oiling
• Stress Relieving, Normalizing, & Annealing
• Shearing
• Grinding
• Forming
• Chamfering
• Machining
• Boring
• Honing
• Trepanning