SOCOTHERM

Our background

The Socotherm Group is the 2nd largest pipe coating organisation in the world with a permanent workforce of about 700 professionals involved in the design, construction and operation of plants in South America, Africa, Europe, Far East and Australia.

Socotherm S.p.A. pioneered the development of its own plastics coating technology in the early 1970’s performing its first 2-layer pipe coating project back in 1976. This was followed by the introduction of fusion bonded epoxy (FBE) coatings in 1977 and 3-layer polyethylene (3PE) coating systems in 1983. Socotherm S.p.A. achieved another milestone in 1985 by being the first in the world to apply composite polypropylene (PP) coatings. The company was historically listed on the Italian stock exchange in 2002 and the shareholders continue to enjoy a steady and consistent increase in the value of their investment.

APC Socotherm Pty Ltd (APCS) was established in 1998 and is 100% owned by the Socotherm Group allowing us access to a global pool of experienced managers, engineers and pipe coating technicians. In addition, we are privy to a vast amount of industry knowledge and can utilise other resources gained over 40 years of being in the oil, gas and water pipe protection business. We operate an 8Ha facility located close to both Orrcon and Onesteel pipe manufacturing mills and Port Kembla on the NSW south coast which ensures that we are a cost effective delivery point for locally produced bare pipes or pipe delivered from overseas.

APCS Facility

Our mission

APCS was founded to end a 30 year monopoly of the pipe coating business in Australia and to provide the industry with updated coating technology and systems, flexibility and value where the customer has traditionally received a poor deal due to lack of competition.

Our talented, energetic and pro-active employees provide new ideas through innovative thinking and also focus their efforts on providing reliable, quality products combined with a high degree of customer service. By winning new and retaining existing customers, our corporate objectives are to gain sufficient market share to return a profit to our principal shareholder, sustain long term growth and provide our employees with a sense of purpose and a satisfying work environment. | Top |

Our capabilities

Coating - APCS utilizes state of the art technology to apply internal and external coatings to pipes ranging in diameter from NB50 to NB1,500 in lengths from 9.5mtrs to 18.3mtrs*. Please refer to the Products and Services section for further technical information.

Coating process

Type of coating

Production capacity

External systems

2-layer Yellowkote HDPE

3-layer Trikote® HDPE

Single layer FBE

Dual layer FBE (for mech. protection, crossings, HDD)

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Internal systems

2 pack epoxy flow coatings

High build epoxies

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* Investigations are underway to consider upgrades to accommodate 24mtr pipe lengths. | Top |

Pipe storage - The bare and coated pipe storage area is approximately 4.5Ha in size and can accommodate the following total quantities of pipe by size based on 18mtr nominal lengths.

Pipe size	Total storage capacity	Stack height
NB150	800kms	10
NB250	400kms	8
NB350	280kms	7
NB450	200kms	6

Coated Projects

Over 100 Coating Contracts completed in Australia - APC Socotherm secured and completed its' 100th coating contract in Australia during April 2006. We would like to thank all of our customers for their repeated continual support in helping use reach this milestone.

Our partial reference list (does not include misc. work)

Month/Year	Client	Length (mtrs)	Size (mm)	Coating th’ness (mm)	Coating type	Project
May, 2005	Delco Australia Pty Ltd	225,500 21,100 2,500 48,250 2,000 500	219x4.40 219x6.10 219x6.10 168x4.00 168x5.80 168x5.80	1.150 1.150 3.220 1.150 1.150 3.220	YK YK T’kote YK YK T’kote	Central Ranges
Apr, 2005	Orrcon	30,492	114x4.80	1.220	T’kote	Unknown
Feb, 2005	Orrcon	5,000	324x6.40	0.400	P	Worley Epic Kemerton Lateral
Jan, 2005	Gasnet	1,752	356x9.53	1,425 0.050	T’kote Int	Snowy Hydro Project
Jan, 2005	Technip Oceania	10,931 390 11,041 561	508x15.3 508x17.7 114x4.80 114x4.80	0.400 1.000 1.150 1.000	P P2 YK P2	Woodside Otway Gas
Nov, 2004	Santos QNTBU	1,640 520 860 11,388 35,784	324x12.0 324x22.2 324x11.1 324x9.70 60.3x5.54	1.125 1.125 1.125 0.550 0.900	P2 P2 P2 P YK	Casino Field Development
Aug, 2004	Orrcon	22,824	114x4.80	1.220	T’kote	Unknown
Feb, 2004	Orrcon	25,272	114x4.80	1.275	T’kote	Unknown
Feb, 2004	Orrcon	6,228 1,188 270	508x6.40 406x6.40 508x6.40	1.275 1.275 1.500	T’kote T’kote P2	Enertrade/CH4
Jan, 2004	Orrcon	25,000	114x4.00	1.275	T’kote	Unknown
Dec, 2003	Orrcon	18,342 1,548	168x4.80 168x6.40	1.275 1.275	T’kote T’kote	Powerco/Tasmania Laterals
Oct, 2002	Orrcon	2,172 7,140 1,572 3,084 7,800	114x4.00 114x4.80 168x7.11 114x4.00 114x4.80	1.150 1.150 1.150 1.150 1.150	YK YK YK YK YK	Unknown
Aug,2002 to May2003	Spie Capag/Lucas JV	4,600 4,600 5,000 1,405 570 3,025 189,200 188,840 360 30,000 21,148 5,265 4,887	356x7.84 356x7.84 356x9.80 356x9.80 356x9.80 356x9.80 457x10.1 457x10.1 457x10.1 457x12.1 457x12.1 457x12.1 457x12.1	0.050 1.275 0.050 1.275 1.500 3.000 0.050 1.275 3.000 0.050 1.275 1.500 3.000	Int T’kote Int T’kote P2 T’kote Int T’kote T’kote Int T’kote P2 T’kote	SEAGas Australia Pty Ltd
Aug,2002	Orrcon	7,284	114x4.80	1.350	YK	Energex
Apr,2002	Orrcon	21,336	114x4.00	1.150	YK	OCA/W’grove
Dec,2001	Santos QNTBU	8,011	323x8.70	1.350	YK	Santos/Scotia
Sept,2001	Tubemakers Brisbane	25,570 6,245 1,484	219x14.3 219x8.20 219x18.3	1.350 1.350 1.350	T’Kote T’Kote T’Kote	Chevron/Moran Papua New Guinea
June,2001	Agility/Tubemakers – Brisbane	41,153	406x5.70	1.400	YK	Agility-Clough Lucas/CS Energy Roma Looping
Feb,2001	Tubemakers – Brisbane	28,809 277 1,668	168x4.00 168x6.40 114x4.80	1.200 1.200 1.200	YK YK YK	OCA/G’tulloch
Jan, 2001	Tubemakers – M’bourne	12,277 994	323x4.80 323x5.70	1.300 1.300	T’Kote T’Kote	Mission Energy/Loy Yang B
Jan, 2000	Duke Energy Int’l	16,825	219x9.10	1.035	P2	Duke Energy Int’l – EGP Lateral

Legend:-
Yellowkote(YK) - 2 layer HDPE to AS1518-2002

Powderkote (P) - Fusion Bonded Epoxy to AS3862-2002

Powderkote II (P2) - Dual layer FBE in general accordance with AS3862

Tri-kote® (T’Kote) - 3 layer HDPE (Trilaminate) to CAN/CSA-Z.245.21

Innerkote® (Int) - Internal flow coating to API RP5L2

Heavykote (H) - Concrete weight coating (available for special projects)