'It’s going to be very difficult for Maxi Group to break into the weldless pipe market, as it is saturated at the moment and the competition is quite fierce,’ a representative of Trubmetallkomplekt Ltd said to a UrBC reporter.

'There are three large weldless pipe makers in Sverdlovsk Region alone (one of them being Sinara Pipe Works), and plenty of intermediaries on top of that. This is why what Maxi Group wants to do is set prices that are lower than the current market ones. Otherwise their potential consumers simply won’t buy their produce, given that the quality of these goods is not likely to be strikingly different from that of Maxi Group’s competitors,’ he said.

Maxi Group has recently started putting up a weldless pipe production plant in Revda; experts tend to feel the company is going to have a hard time winning its share of the market.