Russia: ChTPZ net profit up in 2018

In 2018 ChTPZ net profit grew 1.9-fold YoY, to 7.7 billion rubles. Sales revenue increased by 13%, to 178.84 billion rubles, and gross profit – by 17.9%, to 44.29 billion rubles. The product prime cost went up by 11.5%, to 134.56 billion rubles. The company fixed liabilities dropped by 5.3%, to 74.2 billion rubles. (Ukrainian…

Russia: ChTPZ pipes sales down in 2018

In 2018 the ChTPZ pipes enterprises – Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Works and Pervouralsky Novotrubniy Works – sold 1.92 million tons of pipes, down by 3.7% YoY. The decrease is due to the completion of large diameter pipes deliveries for the Nord Stream-2 construction. Deliveries to the Russian market grew by 1.2%, to 1.42 million tons, including…

Russia: ChTPZ and PNTZ pass environment audit

The systems of the environment management at ChTPZ and PNTZ have been named efficient. SAI Global carried out the audit at ChTPZ and TUV Rheinland – at PNTZ. This year ChTPZ has started a large-scale project on the construction of the wastewater purifying facilities. Investments total 600 million rubles. PNTZ is also modernizing its water…