In 2007 Almetyevsk Pipe Plant Increase Dispatch of Pipes by 8%

In 2007 dispatch of pipes of different range reached 169 thou tons including 44 thou tons of pipes with outer insulation which is 8% and 3% more than in 2006.

United Metallurgical Company (UMC) is one of the major Russian producers of tubes ad pipes, railway car wheel and other steel products for power engineering, transportation, and heavy industry. UMC incorporates 6 large enterprises of the steel industry. The tubes and pipes complex of UMC consists of Vyksa Steel Works (the Nizhny Novgorod region), Almetyevsk Pipe Plant (Tatarstan) and Trubodetal Works (the Chelyabinsk region); UMC steel complex consists of Chusovoy Steel Works and Gubakha Coke (the Perm region) as well as Shchelkovo Steel Works (the Moscow region).