TMK, one of the largest world producers of pipes for oil and gas industry and leader of the Russian pipe market, declares the production results for period, finished on March, 31, 2009. During the first quarter of 2009 TMK shipped to the users 581 thousands of tons of steel pipes, on 17,8% less than as compared to the first quarter by a year before.Volumes of shipping of pipe products (thousand of tons)
Seamless pipes
it is constrained products, foremost, with the considerable diminishing of capacity of pipe market, above all things, in the segment of pipes of the industrial setting. In particular in Russia a market volume went down on 33%. At the same time TMK was able to increase shipping volumes such hi-tech
products as pipe OCTG, which are used in neftegazodobyvayuschey industry. Due to strategic partnership with anchorwomen the Russian neftegazovymi companies which are the basic users of products of TMK, Company strengthened a market
positions. Also Company develops the production of vysokogermetichnykh of screw-thread connections of class actively «Premium» own development and grows powers on cutting. In the first quarter TMK shipped 29,4 thousands of tons of pipes with bonus connections, that on
28,3% more than for analogical period the last year. Weakening of demand in the conditions of worsening of obscheekonomicheskoy situation affected diminishing on the whole on 19,7% shippings of TMK of welding pipes, foremost, industrial setting. Thus Company considerably
increased the issue of welding OCTG due to acquisition of enterprises TMK IPSCO and to mastering of production on joint with Corinth Pipeworks enterprise TMK-CPW. An output in this vysokomarzhinal’nyy a market segment allows TMK to produce a complete gamut to the pipe products for neftegazovogo
complex. The pattern of production of TMK became better including due to mastering of new powers, in particular truboprokatnogo complex with a continuous figure PQF on Tagmete, complex on the production of pryamoshovnykh 2000
pipe factory and elektrostaleplavil’nogo complex at the Severskom pipe plant. In addition, Company continued mastering of the areas of heat treatment of pipes entered last year on Tagmete, by Volzhsk and Sinarskom pipe factories, and also in the first quarter entered
new termootdely on two enterprises TMK IPSCO. A company forecasts growth of production in the second quarter of current year.
