Vallourec

The Group's historical and technological cradle, the Europe/Africa Region serves all of Vallourec's markets from its production and service units. The industrial activity includes rolling mills, heat treatment, finishing and specialities plants.

A world leader in its markets, Vallourec provides benchmark tubular solutions for the energy sectors and for other applications, including some of the most demanding: from oil and gas wells in extreme conditions to next-generation power plants to daring architectural projects and extremely high-performing mechanical equipment. Adapted to the challenges of the 21st century, our comprehensive, innovative solutions are designed for three main markets: oil and gas, low-carbon energy, and industry.

A trusted partner that creates solutions

True to our pioneering spirit, we now go even further by prioritizing two areas of focus:

• Expanding our offering by digitizing it via (for example) smart, connected tubes.

• Developing a range of services, specifically digital services, that are bundled into the Vallourec.smart offer. These services represent a new overall experience for our customers and are designed to provide them with support throughout their entire value chain by combining the best of our physical and digital skills.
  
  This approach of constant innovation enables us to maintain our technological leadership and satisfy our customers’ requirements by helping them meet the challenges they are facing head on.

An international and local industrial footprint

To this end, we have more than 17,000 employees based in 20 countries so that we can be as close to our customers as possible. Vallourec’s international presence is all the stronger thanks to its strong local presence. This proximity guarantees competitiveness for a start: each of our four regions is able to serve its markets via industrial routes that have been optimized with regard to time and cost from production to delivery.

Oil and gas market

Vallourec markets innovative solutions designed for exploring and extracting oil and gas deposits—drilling operations, line pipe, shaft equipment—in the most extreme conditions.
 

Low-carbon energy market

Vallourec offers a broad range of smart tubes that are able to resist the highest pressures and temperatures and are designed to be used in the construction of traditional and nuclear power plants.
 

Industrial market

Vallourec has developed an offering of strong, light tubes designed for numerous industrial applications: refineries, hydraulic cylinders, machine tools, automobiles, construction, etc.