Interpipe has appointed Andrey Burtsev a new director on pipe sales in Ukraine, Near East, Africa and Asia. Burtsev started working in his new office on September 1. In addition to sales on Near East, African and Asian markets he will also be responsible for Interpipe commercial activity in Ukraine. Andrey Burtsev has been working…
Ukrainian Railways have ordered Interpipe Ukraine LLC the delivery of tyres valued at 149.8 million UAH. This year the company will supply 5713 pieces of tyres of carbon steel produced by Interpipe NTZ not earlier than March 2018. The price of the agreement was 0.001% below the expected cost of the purchase. The only competitor…
In 2015-2018 Interpipe lost some 14% of the Ukrainian market of seamless hot-rolled pipes. The drop is due to the growth of Chinese products on the Ukrainian market, which are sold at dumping prices. “There has not been such a growth before. But in 2018 Chinese deliveries began increasing drastically resulting in such damage. As…
In January-July Interpipe Steel produced 549 thousand tons of steel, down by 5.8% YoY. In July the company produced 73 thousand tons of steel, while in June – 75 thousand tons. In 2018 Interpipe Steel produced 973.8 thousand tons of round steel billets, up by 15% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
The European Commission has decreased the antidumping duties on Interpipe Niko Tube and Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsk Pipe Works from 13.8% to 8.1%. The decision has been taken under a partial revision of antidumping duties on the import of some steel pipes from Ukraine. The revision has been initiated by Interpipe. The EU started revising duty size…
In January-June Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsk Pipe-Rolling Plant increased net profit 2.1-fold YoY, to 1.918 billion UAH. Net income grew by 8.3%, to 7.639 billion UAH. Undistributed profit as of the end of the first half-year totaled 2.179 billion UAH. (Ukrainian metal)
Electric energy expenses of industrial consumers have grown by 22%, and the full price has reached 1.93 UAH per kW-h. According to Interpipe, on July 1-2 the average electricity price was 1.58 UAH per kW-h, roughly on par with the June level. But now a tariff of Ukrenergo has to be added to this price,…
Vallourec Niko Tube, a joint venture of Vallourec and Interpipe, was created in April 2018 to produce seamless pipes for the European market. The manufacture is situated in the city of Nikopol and consists of two lines in the pipe-rolling shops Nos. 2 and 7 of Interpipe Niko Tube. Interpipe is responsible for the manufacture…