Tube Solutions

ERW Steel Tubes Engineered for Consistency and Performance

Steel tubes are fundamental to industrial and structural applications. Their performance depends on dimensional accuracy, weld integrity, and compliance with standards. ALTRAD SPAR Steel’s Tube Solutions division delivers ERW pipes and welded tubes designed for scaffolding, structural, and industrial applications across the GCC. Our approach focuses on repeatability, compliance, and documentation readiness, ensuring tubes can be specified correctly, approved efficiently, and used reliably on site.

Product Range

ALTRAD SPAR supplies:

  • ERW pipes
  • Structural hollow sections (CHS, SHS, RHS)
  • Scaffolding tubes
  • MS and GI tubes
  • Industrial tubes for fabrication

Standards Alignment

ALTRAD SPAR tubes align with:

  • ASTM A53
  • ASTM A500 Grade B
  • API 5L (project dependent)
  • EN 10219

This ensures compatibility with international project specifications.

Manufacturing Process

Tube production follows controlled stages:

Coil Preparation

Steel coils are adjusted to meet specific width and thickness requirements.

Forming

Coils are shaped into tubular forms.

Welding

High-frequency welding ensures seam integrity.

Sizing & Straightening

Dimensions are refined for accuracy.

Cutting

Tubes are cut to specified lengths.

Quality Control

In-Process Checks

  • OD and thickness verification
  • Straightness control
  • Weld inspection

Final Checks

  • Dimensional accuracy
  • Surface condition
  • Length verification

Documentation Support

  • MTC (Mill Test Certificates)
  • Inspection reports
  • Compliance documentation

Applications

Structural

Frames, supports, and industrial structures.

Scaffolding

48.3 mm tubes for access systems.

Industrial

Fabrication, utilities, and general construction.

Benefits

  • Consistent quality
  • Reduced rejection
  • Faster approvals
  • Reliable performance

From Coile To Pipes

SPAR Steel’s reputation and goodwill stands on our expertise and industry experience. SPAR believes in evolving ourselves on the basis of constant progress and inclusion of new technologies that are deployed to satisfy the most demanding expectations, for a wide range of uses. Thanks to our great know-how on Hot Rolled coils and GI coils, and our incomparable ready stock, we can choose the raw material having the most appropriate mechanical and surface characteristics to avoid waste, rework and any thermic treatment of our steel tubes.

During our tube forming process, the dimensional accuracy is obtained by our step by step processes, so as to produce a precision tube offering tolerances in sizes much stricter than the normal standards in use. We are very particular about coils we choose for manufacturing our fine engineering products and those which can withstand the test of time. In line with this, all production lines use raw material with standards based features that allows us to offer the highest degree of mechanical characteristics of our tubes. This makes any last moment thermic treatment on the tube redundant.

Laser Process

Conventional welding of structural members is prone to inconsistency in terms of acquired strengths by the resulting joints across the length. The tiny air cavities and voids formed during the welding acts as region of stress-concentration and can become reason of crack propagation and failure of joints. SPAR’s experience has taught us that the type of welding source will cast an influence on the welding seam morphology and mechanical features of the joints.

SPAR’s specialized Tube Solutions laser welding presents far greater advantages. The laser source produces a predictable and extremely narrow welding seam and allows for a complete penetration into all our thickness of the slit member being welded. Due to homogeneity achieved after laser welding, SPAR tubes have the ability to perform reliably throughout its service life.

Our latest machinery and Tube and Pipe manufacturing know-how helps us reach a level of very small thermic distortions and far better dimensional tolerances on the inner and outer diameters of our tubes.

This process assures the welding zone to become extremely resistant and capable of enduring tensile loads, bending moments and shear force during its application in demanding scaffold industry.