TPi July 2021

Business & market news

Severstal completes first delivery of large-diameter pipes to South America

PAO Severstal, a vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining company, has delivered an order of large-diameter pipes to Peru, in the company’s first ever shipment to South America. The products were produced at Severstal’s Izhora Pipe Plant, located in St Petersburg, Russia. Pipes were manufactured in line with API 5L PSL 1 steel production standards, grade X52, diameter 762mm, thickness

9.53mm and shipped directly from St Petersburg port to the port of Ilo, in southern Peru. The pipes were produced using Severstal’s own rolled metal, produced by Mill 5000 and the company’s sheet rolling shop, both based on the same industrial site as Izhora Pipe Plant. The ability to access its own rawmaterials base, in addition to steelmaking and rolling production facilities, affords

Severstal complete control over the price and quality of products at every stage of production. This, combined with the close proximity of Izhora Pipe Plant to the port of St Petersburg, ensures orders are able to be delivered promptly, and at a competitive price, to locations all around the world. Severstal www.severstal.com

IMS Messsysteme and voestalpine Tubulars sign contract as synergy continues to evolve

The next step in the synergetic business relationship between IMS Messsysteme and voestalpine Tubulars has now been contractually agreed for the summer of 2021. The IMS finished tube gauge has already been installed behind the stretch reducing mill (SRM) in the seamless tube mill of voestalpine Tubulars, which will be equipped with the IMS 3D tube surface inspection system ‘surcon 3D Tube’. Surface inspection of the hot-rolled finished tubes is moving a step closer to the manufacturing process: in the future, possible surface defects will be detected immediately after the SRM – the last of the three forming stages – and at tube rolling speeds of more than 10m/s. This extension of the existing system will enable voestalpine Tubulars to

detect even the smallest defects on the surface of the tubes even earlier and to initiate corrective measures regarding the process and tools correspondingly quickly. The project comprises integration of the IMS 3D tube surface inspection system into the existing IMS 4-channel tube gauge. The main advantages of this implementation variant compared to an additional, stand-alone gauge are that all measurement data such as wall thickness, diameter and profile, temperature and surface defects are determined simultaneously at the same measuring point and have the same tube length reference; the existing IMS gauge can continue to be used as before and there is no need to create additional installation space for another gauge. The two companies IMS Messsysteme GmbH in Heiligenhaus, Germany, and

voestalpine Tubulars GmbH & Co KG, Kindberg, Austria have been working together in the field of hot seamless tube measurement for more than 30 years. IMS Messsysteme GmbH www.ims-gmbh.de voestalpine Tubulars GmbH & Co KG www.voestalpine.com/tubulars

The seamless tube mill of voestalpine Tubulars will be equipped with the IMS 3D tube surface inspection system

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