OREANDA-NEWS. Trubodetal factory (Trubodetal Open Joint Stock Company, based in Chelyabinsk, part of United Metallurgical Company, OMK CJSC, based in Moscow) has won the "Top 20 Best Products of the Chelyabinsk Region" competition with its new product for the nuclear and thermal energy industries: bends for high pressure steam pipelines.

This April, the factory was one of the first in the country to get a certificate from the Customs Union enabling it to deliver these parts across Russia, as well as to Belarus and Kazakhstan. That same month, the factory made its first deliveries to clients.

"Trubodetal has been participating in the competition since 2005, and the panel has always highly rated the quality of the factory's products," said Andrey Korotkov, the factory's Managing Director. "We closely follow the latest trends, and we try to offer the products which are in demand on the market. For instance, last year, we presented custom-made pipeline fittings for the South Stream gas pipeline. This year, we entered the competition with a product which is required by the energy complex."

The "Top 20 Best Products of the Chelyabinsk Region" project is organized by the regional government as part of the "Top 100 Best Products of Russia" national competition, which is one of the domestic industry's most prestigious awards. A victory on the competition's regional level gives a company a chance to participate in the All-Russian stage. The results of the "Top 100 Best Products of Russia" competition will be announced at the end of the year.