Mumbai, 27th June 2017: Tubacex Group, the Spain-based multinational, has inaugurated the ‘Regional Distribution Centre’ at the SEZ of Kandla Port. With this, the largest worldwide producer of seamless tubes in stainless steel and high-nickel alloys and provider of premium tubular solutions, has further boosted its presence in India. This Stock and Service Centre is part of Tubacex Service Solutions (TSS) – a global master distributor (already having presence in Dubai, Iran, Spain, France, Austria, Houston and Brazil) – is aimed at offering immediate product availability and tailor-made special services to Indian customers.

Tubacex caters its products range to the most critical segments like Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Chemical, Power Generation, Aerospace and Water Desalination to name a few.

While addressing the media Mr Ajay Sambrani, MD, Tubacex – Asia & Middle East & North Africa said “This distribution centre will serve the biggest portfolio in Asia of seamless stainless steel tubes and pipes including hydraulic and instrumentation and heat exchangers stock plan for quick deliveries. With TSS India, we reinforce our commercial positioning in India bringing our tubular solutions closer to our customers with a stock & service centre supported by a global network of industrial plants and warehouses integrated in the Tubacex Group worldwide.”

“India is our hub for the Asian region covering important markets of China and Korea, among others, so this is an important step for Tubacex. We came to India in 2014 inspired by the government’s Make in India initiative and have made substantial progress since then,” said Manuel Sarabia, Executive VP – Tubacex TSS Global, who had flown in for the occasion.

Briefing on the journey of Tubacex in India so far, Mr Sambrani said, “Tubacex first established its Asia Sales Office in India in 2014, followed by the acquisition of Seamless Stainless Steel Tube business and manufacturing plant of Prakash Steelage India at Umbergaon, Gujarat in 2015. Now in 2017, with opening of Tubacex Service Solutions (TSS) in Kandala Port with an aim to supply products and tailor-made service to entire Asia continent has made group’s presence complete in India.”

Tubacex’s strategic decisions about expansion in India market have helped the Group’s positioning in gaining competitiveness in standard products, whereas reinforcing its TUBACEX positioning in higher added-value products, with particular emphasis on Asia, with the strengthening of the company’s sales team.

TSS India Facilities: Asia has become one of the main markets in TUBACEX Group positioning, where the 69% of the Group’s sales are destined. Its Premium business strategy takes relevance in this market with special focus on the Caspian Sea, where the Tubacex Group has received its largest order to supply umbilical tubes for the Shah Deniz Project, one of the world’s largest gas fields; or China, a market in which five orders have been placed recently for new power stations, as well as an important order for Premium tubes for one of the country's main refineries. These orders also include significant engineering solutions for the end user, such as full tube connection packages and services for gas extraction wells. They represent a qualitative and quantitative leap in terms of client relations and business model conception.

Tubacex commitment in the country goes beyond its business approach with the launching of a social action program in support of UNICEF to promote Education and access to water, sanitation and hygiene in the schools covering 5 blocks of Palghar district, Maharashtra in India. This agreement is framed within the initiatives of the Tubacex Foundation and will have a three-year term and it is fully-aligned with the lines of action of UNICEF and the 'Clean School Clean India' campaign promoted by the Indian Government.