Description Tex-Tube Company, a member of the Villacero Group, manufactures line, standard, fire protection, and sprinkler steel pipe. Tex-Tube specializes in coating and roll-grooving of its thin-walled steel products. With multiple grades of hot-rolled coils, Tex-Tube prepares electric resistance welded (ERW) pipe -- one of the company's core products. The company also offers multiple types of end finishes to its products, from plain-end beveled to vic-grooved to square cut varieties. It also distributes products produced by one of U.S. Steel's tubular products units (which had been a part of Lone Star Technologies). The Texas-based company has been in business for more than 50 years.