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Vallourec S.A.
French premium seamless tube/OCTG and line-pipe producer for energy and industry.
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Tubes & Services — Energy (OCTG and Line Pipe)
62%Tubes & Services — Industry
24%Mine & Steel (Brazil)
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Did you know2024
Vallourec owns the Pau Branco iron ore mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil — a captive iron ore supply that feeds the Jeceaba electric arc furnace and bloom casting facility, which then produces the seamless blooms rolled into OCTG at the Barreiro mill. The seamless casing and tubing Vallourec produces from Brazilian iron ore supplies Petrobras's deepwater pre-salt offshore oil fields (Buzios, Lula, Sapinhoá — the largest oil province in the Western Hemisphere). The same iron ore mine in Minas Gerais that supplies pipe for offshore oil extraction also supplies Vallourec with the steel for nuclear steam generator tubing (Inconel-690 alloy seamless tubes for pressurized water reactor steam generators). Vallourec is simultaneously vertically integrated from Brazilian iron ore to fossil fuel extraction infrastructure and from that same iron ore to nuclear power plant heat exchange infrastructure — fossil extraction and low-carbon nuclear power share the same upstream iron ore mine and steel mill.
Vallourec S.A. ↗Origin2024
Vallourec traces its lineage to Vallourec (a French steel tube company) and Mannesmannröhren-Werke (the German seamless pipe subsidiary of Mannesmann AG, which itself was founded in 1890 to commercialize the Mannesmann brothers' seamless tube rolling process). The two companies merged in 1997 to form Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes (V&M Tubes). After Vodafone's hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000, V&M Tubes was eventually fully consolidated under Vallourec S.A. In 2021-2022, Vallourec underwent a major restructuring: it sold its German Mannesmannröhren-Werke operations to Tenaris (its chief rival), completely exited Europe, and refocused around its Brazilian integrated operations (Pau Branco iron ore mine → Jeceaba steel mill → seamless pipe rolling). The company that inherited Mannesmann's seamless pipe legacy then sold those German operations to the Argentine company that inherited Dalmine's seamless pipe legacy — consolidating 130 years of European industrial pipe heritage under a single rival owner.
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