OREANDA-NEWS. November 28, 2007. TMK announces today that a new finishing line for casing pipes is being installed at its Volzhsky Pipe Plant subsidiary. This new equipment will be added to the No3 pipe rolling workshop (TPC-3) and will have 200,000 tonnes of annual finishing capacity.

The equipment will be supplied by IVTWH (Germany), Bronx (USA) and EMAG (Germany) and installed by Teploenergomontazh (Russia). Over 46 tonnes of equipment has been already installed in the workshop. Commissioning of the new line is scheduled for June 2008.

Volzhsky’s TCP-3 produces seamless casing and line pipes with diameters ranging from 168 to 426 mm for use in oil and gas production and in the power industry.

The construction of this new casing finishing line is part of TMK’s Strategic Investment Programme, running up to 2010.

The workshop is to undergo further upgrading with the installation of a new 340,000 tpa heat treatment line and a production line with integrated phosphatising for casing couplings. Hot rolling equipment will also be upgraded and modified to permit the use of round billets, allowing its capacity to be increased to 720,000 tonnes of pipes per year.