According to the European Commission documents, the European Union may lower import duties for Interpipe, the Ukrainian maker of pipes, for the second time since July.The European Commission passed a draft resolution to the EU Council that envisaged cutting the duty to 13.8% from 17.7%. The tax was decreased to 17.7% from 25.1% last month.…
Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has stated that in the current year its subsidiary Interpipe Novomoskovsk Pipe Works plans to increase its production by 7.5% YoY to 235,000 tons of pipes. In 2011 the mill increased its pipe production by 20% YoY to 218,600 tons.The company supplies 30% of its produced pipes…
Interpipe, one of the leading steel pipe producers in Eastern and Central Europe, plans to close Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsk Pipe open-hearth furnace capacities in Q4 2012 while its output will be fully indemnified with Dneprostal electric furnace steel production.Project capacity for Dneprostal in 2012 is estimated at 700,000 tons of assembled steel, while Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsk Pipe…
Interpipe rolled the first lot of seamless pipes, using the billets, produced at the new Dniprostal electric steel-smelting complex. The first pipe was rolled at the Interpipe NTRP plant.The first pipe passed the entire set of tests, which confirmed the high quality of the billet steel. Production of the first pipe means that Interpipe moves…
On January 17, 2012 Interpipe and Italian general contractor Danieli Company successfully began hot testing of the manufacturing equipment at the Dneprosteel Electric Steel Smelting Complex. During the first melting process 100 tons of steel billets were produced.The hot testing will be carried out on the entire production chain of ESSC including arc steel-smelting furnace,…
Interpipe has launched two new production floors for scrap processing at Dnepropetrovsk Vtormet. These facilities are equipped with a shearing press, produced by AKROS, and scrap re-loaders, made by Sennebogen. The production capacity of one floor is 16 to 30 tons of scrap per hour.Commissioning of these new facilities is a part of the company…
It is reported that a $700 million Greenfield investment by billionaire Mr. Viktor Pinchuk will soon bring Ukraine, already one of the world’s top 10 metals producers, its first brand new steel mill of significant size since Soviet times.Company officials said that cold testing of equipment in idle operation had already started at the Dniepropetrovsk-based…
Mr. Oleksandr Kyrychko, CEO of Interpipe, said that Interpipe had plans to put into operation the Dniprostal steel smelting complex in March 2012.According to Mr. Kyrychko, cold tests at the factory are expected to begin on October and hot tests should begin in December.All the tests are expected to be completed in early March, and…
