Michigan Seamless Tube (MST), a leading manufacturer of high-quality carbon and alloy seamless cold-drawn pipe and tube, announced Wednesday that it will complete construction on a new 9,600 square foot pickling house later this year. The new pickling house will be the fifth of its kind at the company's current 320,000 square foot facility, enabling MST to produce an additional 450 tons of product monthly. The pickling process is a surface treatment that removes oxides and scale from the steel tubes, and is an integral part of the cold-drawn process.
"The addition of a fifth pickling house is part of our broad plan to invest capital and resources into our facility so that we can materially improve production capacity to better serve our customers," said Les Whitver, vice president of operations for MST.