Her husband also lost his job, at a pipe manufacturer.

Production goals set in tons, for example, have led Soviet pipe manufacturers to use far more steel than necessary.

It is home to the pipe manufacturer Krah AG.

Bill Koehrsen, a 62-year-old iron smelter operator at a pipe manufacturer, said of the deficit: "This is something that took 30 years to do.

In the 1970s, a pipe manufacturer in Walsall received a parcel from a German competitor which contained a stainless steel pipe made to incredible tolerances on the latest computer-controlled lathe.

The fluid spill was due to a "faulty elbow pipe"; according to Walker, Range has since "gone to a completely different pipe manufacturer and a completely different pipe design".

A federal jury found the pipe manufacturer McWane Inc. and two company managers guilty on Friday of environmental crimes, including conspiring to violate the Clean Water Act.

TMK, a Russian pipe manufacturer, hopes to raise $1 billion in a November public offering.

The last two pipe manufacturers retired in 1956.

The company made its first move into San Francisco in 1910 with the purchase of a local riveted pipe manufacturer, the Francis Smith Company, whose own origins dated back to 1854.