Chusovoy Metallurgical Works Increased Output in 2007

In December 2007 the works produced 44.6 thou tons of steel (79% up against 24.9 thou tons in December 2006). In 2007 the total steel output reached 514.6 thou tons, which is 5.2 thou tons more compared to the total steel output in 2006.

United Metallurgical Company (UMC) is one of the largest Russian producers of tubes and pipes, railway car wheels and other types of products for power engineering, transportation, and industrial companies. The company incorporates 6 large steel works. UMC tubes and pipes complex includes Vyksa Steel Works (the Nizhny Novgorod region), Almetyevsk Pipe Plant (Tatarstan) and Trubodetal (the Chelyabinsk region; UMC steel complex includes Chusovoy Metallurgical Works and Gubakhinsky Coke (the Perm region) as well as Schelkovo Metallurgical Works (the Moscow region).