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Tube Industry Activity
TubeNet statistics is pretty good indicator for the activity within Tube & Pipe Industry.
The recent development shows that the activity is rising after long period of downtime.
Therefore I could ironically say that if there is no new terrorist attack, the coming
months should be positive for our industry.
The European insudtries are returning from holidays soon and I expect that the
coming authumn will recall the investments at machinery sales side. Steel tube
sales has been successful due to high pricing and huge demand in China. It is
also expected to remain similar during authumn.
New Domain Name for Asia-Server
I am changing Domain Name for the server located in Malaysia. The
TUBENET.CX became difficult to maintain, so soon you will be able to use new one:
TUBENET.US. The server will still locate in Malaysia - thus - offering fast access
to TubeNet for Asian visitors.
New Statistics
Finally I am able to show better statistics about the traffic at each TubeNet
server. Feel free to check them out here. The charts generate from the raw
data by Webalizer. Generally speaking the monthly number of visitors is
now exceeding 50.000 on regular basis. This figure includes all visits -
also if some visitor has entered TubeNet several times. The daily average
number of visitors is about 1700.
I am happy with these figures. This is now the 9th year I am running TubeNet
and can still remember well, when it was cool to have 500 visitors per month
- now the traffic is 100 times more.
Keep your contact details updated!
An important reminder for all TubeNet Members: Please check that your contact
information is updated in TubeNet's registers. Especially the e-mail addresses.
You can use TubeNet's search engine to find all the categories you are listed
in. Each of them needs to be updated separately. I am planning to introduce
a better registration system in the near future including this information
in a single database, which makes the updating easy.
Cheers my friends
Juha
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