TPT May 2007

View point : Review of the Russian tube industry and future development prospects

By Mr Alexander Deyneko, director, The Development Fund of the Tube Industry of Russia (FRTP)

Plant, Seversky Tube Works, Sinarsky Pipe Works, and Taganrog Metallurgical Works, with two Romanian enterprises – TMK-Artrom tube plant and TMK-Resita metallurgical complex. Practically the entire size range of TMK’s tube products is manufactured by these enterprises. This range is utilised in industries including oil and gas, chemical and petrochemical, power engineering, machine building, construction/housing, shipbuilding, aeronautical, space exploration, and agriculture. TMK’s main type of tube and pipe products are seamless oil and gas threaded tubes (OCTG), seamless linear tubes, seamless and welded tubes for industrial purposes, and large diameter pipeline pipes. These products are certified according to the international standards API, ASTM, EN/DIN. All TMK plants operate a quality system certified according to the requirements of ISO 9001 and API SpecQ1 standards. The United Metallurgical Company (OMK) tube network comprises Vyksa Steel Works – one of the largest Russian tube manufacturers, Almetyevsk Pipe Plant – the leading tube producer in the Middle Volga region, and JSC Trubodetal, a producer of pipeline connections. The tubes produced at these enterprises are utilised for construction of Russian pipelines such as the North-European gas pipeline and Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline. The modern scientific and technical developments of the Russian and international tube industry are used to bolster these enterprises with equipment and technology. In 2005, OMK undertook construction of a foundry-rolling complex for the supply of tube production lines (up to 530mm) using the rolled metal of Vyksa metallurgical and Aljmetyevsk tube plants. OMK: specialist in pipeline construction

ChTPZ Group: a leader in metallurgical products

The ChTPZ Group was established in 2002 and is currently one of the leading industrial groups of the Russian metallurgical industry. The main consumers of the enterprise’s products are the largest oil and gas and energy complexes of Russia, machine building enterprises, ferrous industry, construction industry and agriculture industry. The manufactured products are exported to more than 20 countries. The ChTPZ Group’s ferrous metallurgy division undertakes tube manufacturing at two plants – Chelyabinsk tube rolling and Pervouralsk Novotrubny. Manufacturing is carrried out on a vertically-integrated production line, which covers everything from scrap metal storage to production of tube billets and selling of finished products to consumers.

Introduction Today’s Russian tube manufacturing industry is a cohesive and dominant force, featuring three of the largest Russian companies: Tube Metallurgical Company (TMK), United Metallurgical Company (OMK), and the ChTPZ Group. This nucleus is solidly supported by the ESTAR group of companies, the Izhora Tube plant and other manufacturers of tube products within regional markets. This regional group of medium producers includes Agrisovgsz, JSC Almetyevsk Pipe Plant, Borskiy Pipe Plant, West-Siberian Metallurgical Works, Korolev Pipe Plant, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), Novgorodskiy Pipe Plant, Profil-Akras, Ryazanskiy Pipe Plant, SeverStal, Stroy-Profil, Trubostal, Uralskiy Pipe Plant, Filit Moskow Tube Works and Svobodny Sokol. These companies mainly supply products for water and gas supply, together with shaped and general purpose welded tubes.

TMK: Russia’s biggest producer and exporter of tube products

Founded in 2001, the Tube Metallurgical Company (TMK) is the largest producer and exporter of tube products in Russia. In 2005, the enterprises of TMK’s tube network provided 42 per cent of Russian tube products. TMK production facilities unite four leading enterprises of the Russian tube industry – Volzhsky Pipe

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