Posted on 08/14/2012 7:08:44 AM PDT by thackney
Pipe manufacturer TMK IPSCO will move its corporate headquarters from Illinois to Houston to increase its exposure to the oil and natural gas market, the company has announced.
Currently based in Downers Grove, Ill., TMK IPSCO said it will move most of its headquarters offices to the company’s new research and development center on Houston’s northwest side. The company expects to complete the Houston move by the summer of 2013 and build a new headquarters in the city within the next two years.
“Houston is the hub of the global oil and gas industry. It’s important for the company to be positioned there in order to facilitate relationships with key customers, attract and retain energy-industry talent and demonstrate our commitment to the industry,” said TMK IPSCO Chairman Piotr Galitzine, in a written statement. “Most importantly, this transition will enable us to be a better, more efficient and more service oriented company.”
The company is the U.S. arm of Russia’s largest steel pipe maker, TMK, which counts Exxon Mobil, Shell and other major oil producers among its customers. It manufacturers drill pipe, well casing and other products for the oil and gas industry.
TMK IPSCO has 11 facilities in the United States. In addition to its research and development office on Houston Oaks Drive, the company has three manufacturing plants in Texas.
There's "Texas weather," and then there's "Houston weather." A towel is useless 9 months out of the year.
Sounds like pipe makers are serious about the energy biz.
Chicago, not to worry. Many pipe smokers will be moving into downtown.
Do you live here in IL? Doubt you do making a stupid statement like that. Outside Chicago and C(r)ook County, the "collar counties" such as DuPage where this company is are pretty darn RED. DuPage County is one of the most Conservative counties in IL.
Yes, I lived in Houston for about 18 months after growing up in North Central Texas. One thing that stood out is how friendly people in Houston were, despite the crime and grimy humidity.
The weather if fine if you don’t mind being wet all of the time.
Wrong. Your simple mathematical example fails to take in the massive voter fraud that comes out of the locales I named.
Some folks on here just prefer to paint everyone who lives in Illinois with the "Obama brush" I suppose. Ignorant jackasses that they are.
I guess they got tired of “Chicago Values” /s
It just irritates me sometimes when people paint everyone from Illinois with the same broad brush. It’s bad enough having to live under such conditions, let alone not being counted by our fellow patriots.
The company mentioned comes from the Greater Chicago area. The distance from Downers Grove to Downtown Chicago is less than my daily commute.
That’s why I live in Ft. Walton Beach. It’s Houston without the crime.........;^)
You can’t fool the Laffer curve.
It gets you every time.”
Beuhler?
Beuhler?
Anyone?
I bet Texas will turn blue in the next decade. With all these companies moving to Texas from the north, they will be bringing their employers with them (most of them anyway). That is why you are seeing a slow shift in the mid-west to red states and the south will be turning blue. However, we cannot allow Texas to turn blue without California or New York turning red.
Outside Chicago and C(r)ook County
Outside of those two counties there are hardly any people.
I named Chicago, not the greater Chicago area. Downers Grove is 40 miles directly East of me. It’s a suburb, and likely has as many Republican voters as it has Democrats. Also, as a suburb, it falls within Obama’s attack on suburbia.
Just because the company comes from near Chicago doesn’t mean the employees are, by default, Democrats.
You're an ignorant jackass (with all due deference to jackasses everywhere.)
Maybe they didn’t get the special tax discount some of the other Illinois industries received.
I grew up in Michigan and moved to Houston in 1979. I'll second what CMAC51 said. Skipping the Michigan winters more than makes up for the Houston summers. Weather is pretty nice from October through April - and sometime into May.
Moving into a conservative region after growing up in Michigan was like finding a home after being a stranger in my home town all of my life. But the primary reason I came here was that I could not take the Michigan winters.
The kind of people that are brought to Texas as their firm moves there to escape liberalism, taxes, and over regulation, are probably already pretty well hip to the real world consequences of politics, I would think that they would be a net gain for conservatism in Texas, and a counter to immigration.
Outside of those two counties there are hardly any people.
That's the most clueless statement I've seen on FR in quite some time. But then, maybe your intention was to denigrate Illinois patriots. It's one or the other...
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