The 1st pipe passed the whole set of tests, which confirmed the high quality on the billet’s steel. Production of the 1st pipe ensures that Interpipe moves on the vertically integrated company structure: from scrap procurement, through steel smelting, or longer to the output of steel pipes & railway wheels. Their e mail list of shoppers of Dniprosteel pipe billets ought to include Company’s plants namely Interpipe NTRP & Interpipe NIKO TUBE. Presently both enterprises are set for integration with the Dniprosteel electric steel smelting complex.
Interpipe rolled the primary great deal of China Seamless Tubing, with all the billets, produced at the new Dniprosteel electric steel-smelting complex. The primary pipe was rolled at Interpipe NTRP plant, having a steel billet, produced in the coursework of the 1st heat.
The rolling with the first pipe was carried out by of the Interpipe NTRP shops, producing coal & oil pipes. Twelve billets while using the weight of 100 tons were turn over ingots for production of casings (pipes used by gas & oil extraction). The rolling method resulted in 94 pipes with the period of 12 meters each.
Mr Alexander Kirichko GM of Interpipe said that “One of the leading reasons for Dniprosteel construction is to guarantee the provision of Company’ plants with this own billets for China Seamless Tubing & railway wheels. Interpipe currently purchases 70% of steel billets for China Seamless Tubing from outside suppliers. When Dniprosteel reaches its full capacity in 2014, Interpipe’s self sufficiency in billets for manufacture of China Seamless Tubing will state for 90%. Thus, the vertical integration with the company will likely be completed.”
Mr Andrei Korotkov chairman of Interpipe NTRP board declared “Manufacture of China Seamless Tubing & railway wheels from the continuously cast billets allows Interpipea??s mastering & certification of recent sorts of products, for example, e.g., corrosion-resistant pipes based on 5CT American standard & several other products. Moreover they expect a immense cut in the metal discharge coefficient. Limited to pipes they could save about 5000 tonnes of metal per year.”