 In that year the company headquarters were moved to Düsseldorf - at that time the center of the German tube and pipe industry.The company was renamed Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG in 1908.In the following years the company's position in the export business, which was important from the beginning, was consolidated and expanded by the acquisition of the Mannesmann tube mill in Landore/Wales and by the founding of a Mannesmann tube mill in Dalmine/Italy.