Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has announced
the launch of steel billet sales, produced by Interpipe Steel electric
steel-melting complex. The steel billet mill, commissioned in 2012, produces
round continuously cast billets for pipe and wheel steel grades with diameters
ranging between 150 and 470 mm.
The mill has already shipped trial lots of ER7 steel grade billets to
leading manufacturers of railway products in Spain, the Czech Republic and
Germany, and EA1N and ОС steel grade billets for a Ukrainian axle producer.
Interpipe stated that the company is now reaching its designed production rates
and that it is providing high-quality steel billets to its production
facilities, as well as starting deliveries to other customers.
In June Interpipe Steel melted its one millionth metric ton of steel billet.
The mill's total production in the first nine months of 2013 reached
approximately 900,000 tons of steel.
Interpipe Steel is a key project for Interpipe, designed to provide the
company's pipe and wheel production with its own steel billets. When the mill
reaches its designed capacity rate of 1.32 million tons per year, the
self-sufficiency in billets for Interpipe production facilities will rise to
90%. (SteelOrbis/Ukrainian metal)