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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.
OMK: specialist in
pipeline construction
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.
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.
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)
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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