Russian tube maker TPK Soyuz commissions new mill
The Russian tube company TPK Soyuz is commissioning the first stage of its new hollow sections plant in Yaroslavl, Russia’s central federal district, Steel Business Briefing learns from the company.
The plant is equipped with a slitting line capable of processing 1-6mm thick coils into 80,000 tonnes/year of strip, and the tube welding line. The latter is designed to make 35,000 tonnes/year of tubes including 15-40mm square and 20x10-50x25mm rectangular hollow sections, as well as circular pipes of 19.8-51mm diameter and wall thicknesses of 1-3.5mm.
With the Yaroslavl plant fully operational, TPK Soyuz hopes to win new customers among furniture manufacturers and manufacturers of guardrails and traffic signs, greenhouses, tube-storage racks and water and gas transmission pipeline systems. It is aiming principally at the local market.
In 2013, TPK Soyuz wants to start adding two more welding lines with a view of expanding the capacity for pipes at the Yaroslavl plant fourfold to 140,000 t/y, SBB understands.
The Yaroslavl plant is the second tube plant owned by TPK Soyuz. Volgatruboprofil, its other mill in the neighbouring Kostroma region, produces similar range of tubes and hollow sections. To feed its pipe operations, TPK Soyuz sources the bulk of its requirements for hot rolled coil from Severstal’s Cherepovets Iron & Steel Works, also in central Russia.
Steel Business Briefing, 31.05.11
