OREANDA-NEWS. On 28 May 2008 as part of its ongoing strategic investment program Interpipe announced the realization of the project aimed at increase of non-destructive testing (NDT) facilities, based in tube-rolling shop No. 5 at the Interpipe NTRP operation in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.

Completion of the project will enable Interpipe NTRP to provide fulln on-destructive testing of its steel pipe products, ther by improving its offering to customers. The new line includes a rotary ultrasonic testing system, pipe flushing equipment and automated ultrasonic testing of pipe ends.

The US company Magnetic Analysis Corporation (MAC), one of the leading non-destructive testing suppliers, was selected to provide the ultrasonic pipe testing equipment for  both the pipe body and pipe diameter. Starmans Electronics from the Czech Republic will provide the testing equipment for the pipe ends.

Commenting on the new facilities, Aleksey Slyusarev, Interpipe’s Director for Production and Investments said: “Increase of non-destructive testing facilities is one of Interpipe’s strategic goals. Over the last two years we have added NDT facilities at our operations and now have the capability - through ultrasonic, electromagnetic, eddy current and magnetic particle testing – to test seamless and welded pipes at all of our mills.”