Russia: PNTZ confirms correspondence to Gazprom standards

Pervouralsk Pipe Works has successfully passed voluntary certification and confirmed its high level of business reputation according to Gazprom standards. During the audit the experts inspected the quality management system, market position, financial indexes and other PNTZ operation parameters. In May Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Works also confirmed its status of Gazprom reliable supplier. (Ukrainian metal)

Russia: PNTZ to increase billet manufacture speed

PNTZ has finished repairing its electric steel smelting shop Iron Ozon 32. The repaired machinery is expected to improve manufacture efficiency. In particular, a new heat elimination system will increase the intensity of steel manufacture, while continuous casting machines repair will speed up steel ingoting. Iron Ozon 32 is one of the most efficient pipe…

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…

Russia: PNTZ to use HBI in steel smelting

The technique to use hot-briquetted iron in steel manufacture is being developed at Pervouralsky Pipe Works. According to the ChTPZ commercial director Denis Prikhodko, HBI will be purchased at Mikhailovsky and Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Works of Metalloinvest. “We have great prospects of cooperation with Metalloinvest”, he added. In particular, PNTZ intends to increase purchases…

Russia: PNTZ replaces 7 thousand gas-purifying filters

Pervouralsky Pipe Works has replaced bag filters of the gas-purifying equipment. The cost of the project was 20 million rubles. The filter replacement will decrease dust emission and minimize the manufacture impact on the environment. According to the company managing director Alexei Dronov, this year environment projects budget has been increased by 20%. (Ukrainian metal)

Russia: PNTZ passes ISO 14001:2015 EMS audit

Pervouralsky Pipe Works was one of the first enterprises of Sverdlovsk region to confirm the correspondence of its environment management system to ISO 14001:2015. The audit has been carried out by TUV Rheinland. The certificate is valid for 3 years. Its first ISO 9001 certificate PNTZ obtained in 2002. (Ukrainian metal)

Russia: PNTZ gets 10-year bank guarantee

Chelyabinsk Pipe Works has become a guarantor on the bank guarantee granted to Pervouralsk Pipe Works. The guarantee was granted by Bank Uralsib. The agreement was concluded on December 22. According to the document, the guarantor will be responsible to the bank together with the borrower. The volume of the guarantee is 1.58 billion rubles.…

Russia: PNTZ pipes certified according to Intergazcert

Pervouralsky Pipe Works has passed the certification audit and received the certificate for compliance with the Gazprom 9001-2012 standard requirements in the Intergazcert system. The successful passing of the audit has confirmed the correspondence of PNTZ quality management system to the Gazprom corporate standard for suppliers. The Intergazcert system of voluntary certification was created by…