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and would like to extend its business activity to new markets. Website : www.ltz.com.ua

United Metallurgical Co Russia

United Metallurgical Company (OMK) is one of Russia’s largest producers of pipes, railroad wheels, and other metal products for energy, transport, and industrial companies. OMK comprises six of the largest enterprises in the metallurgical sector. The OMK Pipe-Rolling Division comprises Vyksa Steel Works (Nizhni Novgorod Region), Almetyevsk Pipe Plant (Republic of Tatarstan), and Trubodetal (Chelyabinsk Region); the OMK Steel Works Division comprises Chusovoy Metallurgical Works and Gubakha Coke (Perm Territory), and Shchelkovo Steel Works (Moscow Region). In 2007, OMK products accounted for 18 per cent of pipes consumed in Russia, including 34 per cent of large diameter pipes, 62 per cent of railroad wheels, and 75 per cent of automobile springs. In 2007, the OMK enterprises produced 1.8 million tonnes of pipes of various sizes and 820 thousand railroad wheels. The main consumers of OMK products include such leading Russian and foreign companies as Gazprom, Russian Railways, Lukoil, Transneft, Surgutneftegas, Rosneft, TNK-BP, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, General Electric, and Samsung. OMK supplies its products to 20 countries. In 2007, on the VSW site, OMK began a project for construction of a plate mill (mill- 5000), Russia’s first metallurgical facility for the manufacture of wide sheets used to produce pipes. Mill 5000 will produce wide sheets of high-strength steels (up to X-120) that are not currently manufactured in Russia. In October 2008 OMK built the casting and rolling complex (CRC) in the Vyksa District, Nizhni Novgorod Region. The commissioning of CRC phase 1 makes it possible to provide the electric-weld pipe workshops of Vyksa Steel Works and Almetyevsk Pipe Plant with high quality hot-rolled steel coils for the production of small- and medium-diameter pipes complying with international standards. Website : www.omk.ru ■

For complete full-body ultrasonic inspection applications, the Truscope system provides fast and accurate flaw detection and wall thickness measurement for both statistical control and conformance to industry specifications. The company also offers the ERW Amalog system for full-body electromagnetic induction (EMI) inspection, with longitudinal defect detection of both the weld seam and the pipe or tube body. WeldSonic C, Truscope and ERW Amalog all incorporate Tuboscope’s latest developments in digital signal processing, graphical presentation and connectivity to host computer systems. Website : www.varco.com  Truscope provides complete full-body ultrasonic inspection Ukrmetallotorg Ltd is the official representative of CJSC Lugansk Tube Plant and delivers its products for export. The company has been working on the international metal market for over 10 years and supplies welded steel tube/pipe produced by Lugansk Tube Plant. This supply schedule includes more than 25 countries including those in the CIS, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Syria, Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Israel, and South Africa. Since December 2007, Ukrmetallotorg Ltd has also been the exclusive representative of Tube Works Levoberezhnyy, which is specialized in the production of steel welded profile pipes. Ukrmetallotorg Ltd is interested in broadening its foreign-economic activity Ukrmetallotorg Ltd Ukraine

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