Metalloinvest holding and Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant expand cooperation

Representatives of Metalloinvest Management Company and Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant met at Ural Steel (a subsidiary of Metalloinvest holding) and discussed prospects for further cooperation. 

Ural Steel and Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant are long-term partners and Ural Steel is to become the main supplier to Chelyabinsk’s Plant. The parties discussed at the meeting possibilities to expand production of strip and tube billets with advanced specification resulting from the mill’s reconstruction.

The start up of a new continuous caster at Ural Steel will enable to upgrade the quality of seamless tubes and to occupy the appropriate niche at this market, sales director of Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant Vladimir Krasilshikov said.

The account director of Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant Andrey Medvedev is positive that new equipment of Ural Steel plate rolling mill makes possible to produce high quality European-standard plates. Cooperation with Ural Steel gives us an opportunity for stable work and supply chain and hopes for implementation new joint projects, Andrey Medvedev adds.

“We demonstrated to our partners the result of upgrading the mill during last four years. Ural Steel completes testing the equipment for producing steel with improved mechanical properties. So we can confirm that the plant made another step toward leadership in plate and strip production”, resumed Metalloinvest Management Company’s commercial director Andrey Prosyanik.