TPT May 2007

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May/June 2007
Industry News
Leading steel company Interpipe has
awarded a major new contract to Italian
company Danieli to build a state-of-the-art
electric steel making facility.
Upon completion, the facility is expected
to be the largest of its kind in Ukraine
and western Europe. The contract was
signed in Kiev at a ceremony attended by
Interpipe’s founder Mr Viktor Pinchuk and
senior management from both Interpipe
and Danieli.
The new facility represents an investment
in excess of $610mn, and will have the
capability to produce 1.32 million tons of
round billets and blooms per annum. This
will provide Interpipe’s manufacturing mills
with high quality steel for the company’s
pipes and wheels.
With construction due to start in 3-5 months,
the site of the new mill will be within the
grounds of the company’s largest existing
mill in Dnepropetrovsk, the Niznedneprovsky
Tube Rolling Plant (NTRP).
Interpipe is a global producer of steel
pipes and wheels, and one of the fastest
growing producers in eastern and central
Europe. With sales in excess of $1.5bn,
the company produces 4.3 per cent of the
world’s seamless pipes and 12.8 per cent of
railway wheels.
Commenting on the project, Mr Alexandr
Kirichko, managing director of Interpipe
said: “This facility really is state-of-the-art. It
will allow us to make an eight fold reduction
in our gas consumption and a two and half
fold reduction in emissions overall. We
will be creating 500 new jobs for the local
community – and above all, we will be in a
position to provide our customers around the
world with better products more efficiently.”
The new meltshop will feature all the
latest Danieli technologies and high-tech
equipment available in steelmaking and
casting. It will include a 160t twin shell,
inert roof-type LF and a double-tank VD
equipped with a 4-stages 400kg/h steam
ejector vacuum pump. The split-shell
FastArc AC EAF will operate based on 100
per cent scrap and will be equipped with
the latest technology in chemical energy
injection and HIREG electrode digital
regulation systems.
One four-strand FastCast bloom caster and
one five-strand billet caster will be equipped
with the latest generation of tundish and
mould design, hydraulic oscillators and
all means to enable high-speed casting
of Ø 150-470mm quality round billets and
blooms.
The meltshop will include all auxiliary plants
and equipment, including material handling
system, fume dedusting plant and cranes.
Danieli Automation will supply all electrical
systems and advanced, fully integrated
automation system for the entire plant.
Mr Gianpetro Benedetti, chairman and CEO
of Danieli, states “At Danieli, we have great
expertise in building these ‘mini mills’ for
mining and smelting complexes and are
delighted to be awarded this prestigious
contract by Interpipe. Danieli will be
managing the construction as a turnkey
project, including all the technological
production, the auxiliary plants and services
along with the all of the infrastructure, civil
works and support buildings. This facility
will be the first of its kind in the Ukraine,
which is very exciting for both Danieli and
Interpipe.”
Mr Viktor Pinchuk, founder of Interpipe
added, “The future of Ukrainian industry is
not just about modernising existing mills
and factories, many of which were built
over the last 50 to 100 years – we also
need to invest in the new, high technology
manufacturing facilities. I am very pleased
that through working with partners like
Danieli on projects such as this, we are
making a significant step forward in the
building of a modern industrial infrastructure
for Ukraine in the 21st century.”
Danieli Headquarters – Italy
Fax: +39 0432 598289
Website:
Interpipe – Ukraine
Fax: +380 562 389482
Website:
Interpipe and Danieli collaborate on new
large-scale electric steel mill
The new facility
represents an
investment in
excess of $610mn,
and will produce
1.32 million tons of
round billets and
blooms per annum
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fi Signing the contract in Kiev: Mr Franco Alzetta (left), executive vice president of Danieli, and (right) Mr Alexandr
Kirichko, managing director of Interpipe