Tubacero

Steel Pipe and Piping Products

Tubacero is a Spanish distributor of welded and seamless carbon-steel and stainless-steel pipe, fittings, valves, and other piping components. The company says it has been in business for more than 45 years and describes itself as an industry leader.

Products

• Pipe: ASTM carbon and alloy steel, stainless steel, and DIN and ISO pipe, welded or seamless.
• Butt-weld fittings: Carbon steel, alloy steel, and stainless steel.
• Flanges: Forged ASA flanges and DIN flanges and bends.
• Forged fittings: Couplings, 45- and 90-degree elbows, tees, unions, caps, sockolets, weldolets, plugs, and nipples; NPT and socket-weld connections from 1/4 to 4 inches.
• Valves and related products: Cast or forged gate, globe, and check valves; ball, butterfly, hydraulic, bellows, and piston valves; Y-strainers; instrumentation valves and fittings; and Victaulic accessories.

Additional Services

Along with distribution, Tubacero offers testing, shot blasting, primers and surface treatments, pipe cutting, valve pressure testing, machining, threading, grooving, and beveling. It has its own quality-control laboratory and works with outside metallurgical laboratories.

Facilities and Inventory

The company has 30,000 square meters of facilities in Cartagena, four company-owned distribution centers, and several sales branches. It reports a permanent inventory of 45,000 metric tons across 6,000 product references. The company lists ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certifications.

Industries Served

Tubacero serves the chemical and petrochemical, shipbuilding, desalination, wastewater-treatment and drinking-water distribution, thermal power, engineering, construction and installation, sewer and waste-recycling, and fire-protection industries.

Locations and Contact

• Headquarters: Ctra. de la Unión, Km 3.2, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain. Phone: +34 968 320 032. Fax: +34 968 320 033. Email: info@tubacero.es.
• Puertollano Logistics Warehouse: Sepes Industrial Park, Unit 420, 13500 Puertollano, Ciudad Real, Spain. Phone: +34 926 41 29 42. Fax: +34 926 41 29 44. Email: puertollano@tubacero.es.
• Northern Branch: 18 Calle Gobela, Office 6, 48930 Getxo, Biscay, Spain. Phone: +34 94 480 1544. Fax: +34 94 495 6306. Email: norte@tubacero.es.
• Madrid Branch: 82B Gran Vía de Hortaleza, 28043 Madrid, Spain. Phone: +34 913 005 391. Fax: +34 913 005 397. Email: madrid@tubacero.es.
• Tubacero Portugal: Phone: +34 968 320 032. Fax: +34 968 320 033.

The company also lists two affiliated businesses: Importadora y Comercializadora Tubesteel S.A. in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, and Tubesteel Perú S.A.C. in San Borja, Lima, Peru.