If projected shipments for 2017prove out, this segment will have posted a21% improvement over the market in 2016.Certainly we can see from the above thatseamless products enjoyed a substantialpercentage improvement. The oil and gassector is somewhat responsible for this asthe increase in demand for couplings alonewould represent almost 150k tons ofseamless mechanical tubing demand.Much of the other growth was driven by theoil and gas sector as well.
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