In 2016 the share of stainless steel imports decreased to 40.3% from the record of 86.5% in 2007, while the seamless stainless pipes imports dropped to 33.5% from its highest in 2010 (63.8%). According to the Pipe industry development fund director Igor Malyshev, the decrease of imports resulted in the creation of pipe capacities in…
Gazpromtrubinvest intends to enter the new segments of the market, where the pipes, which cannot be welded, are used. Thus the company will build a seamless pipe manufacture. A three-roll technology will be used to reach the precision of the welded products. After the construction is complete, GPTI will have a unique manufacturing complex to…
Rosneft has chosen the winners of its pipe purchase tender started in December 2016. The initial price of 180 billion rubles dropped by 31.3%, to 123.9 billion rubles. TMK and Gazpromtrubinvest won the largest lots. The pipes will be supplied for the development of deposits. In late April Rosneft announced another tender for the purchase…
In 2016 Trubprom started developing new manufacture – large diameter pipes of stainless steel. According to the company director Ilya Vorontsov, last year Trubprom received trial orders, and this year it has many more. The company has also modernized the mill, having increased the range of products. (Ukrainian metal)
Ferrum has received the new pipe-welding mill. The mill produces thin-walled cold-rolled pipes with 0.5-1.6 mm wall thickness. This will be a unique product for Novosibirsk region. The mill will be put into operation in late May. Ferrum started producing electric-welded pipes in 2015. It has 3 mills with the total capacity of 15 thousand…
Trubodetal, a part of OMK, has passed an inspection audit of its quality management system according to Gazprom 9001-2012 standard. The commission checked the quality management system efficiency, evaluated the operation of inner auditors as well as the results of the corrective measures following the previous check in March 2016. “We regularly improve our business-processes,…
At present Techno Tube, a part of Special Steels and Alloys company, operates 8 pipe-welding lines, including 6 TIG lines and 2 LAZER lines. According to the SSA CEO Semen Serikov, modernization allowed the works to produce 480 tons of welded pipes in December 2016. In 2017 the company plans to start producing 500 tons…
The manufacturing company DIA has started making new products – oval-section pipes. The flat half-ovals are in demand by furniture manufacturers. The company specialists have developed the necessary rolling tools for the production of the new pipe. (Ukrainian metal)