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After a stalled 2005, slight growth in the European auto market was seen in the
second half of the year, above all in Italy, France, Spain and Germany and a stable
US market with a significant change in market share among the Big 3 and the
Japanese auto makers.
Demand is ever more oriented towards supplying tubes
according to complex client specifications and supplying
semi-finished products, like tubes cut-to-length or with
additional special operations, all the way to the request
for complete components.
With high request for pipes in the oil&gas market, the seamless
tube business in the industrial sector finds itself facing capacity
constraints, and is therefore looking for ever greater efficiency
and globalization of offers for added-value products. We spoke
to Ricardo Perugini, responsible for special product business in
the European market. Prior to looking after this market Perugini
was, in 1998, the commercial manager for the automotive market
in Nafta, and subsequently headed the new automotive component
center in Veracruz, Mexico.
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