OREANDA-NEWS. Seversky Tube Works, a subsidiary of OAO “TMK”, has celebrated the completion of the assembly of a new piercing mill.

According to the press service of TMK, it is the latest project of the company’s strategic investment program and a component of the modern high-tech seamless pipe production complex being created at the enterprise.

The assembly of the mill was begun in October 2006. Startup and adjustment work will be done in January 2007, and the completion of warranty testing is scheduled for February2007. The new piercing mill was built at Elektrostaltyazhmash. It will replace the technological link that included a piercing press, a warming oven and elongating mill.

The continuous casting machine, on which startup and adjustment work is also being done, and the new piercing mill will work in a single complex with the continuous rolling mill and arc-jet steelmaking oven that the company is planning to launch at Seversky Tube Works in the next two years.