Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (ChTPZ Group’s largest tube and pipe manufacturers) supplied their consumers with 1,895,000 tons of tubular goods in 2007, which is 10% better than in 2006 when the figure only came to 1,721,000 tons.

ChTPZ Group sold 1,049,000 tons of tubes and pipes last year, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by 9%. These figures include a 16% increase in the amount of large-diameter pipes: it came to 593,400 tons, ChTPZ’s press officer reports.

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant delivered 75,300 tons of tubular goods to consumers in December 2007 (which falls short of the previous year’s figures by 7%), including 47,100 tons of LDPs, which falls short of figures for December 2006 by 2%.

Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant delivered 61,000 tons of tubular goods to consumers in December 2007 (which is 11% better than a year earlier) and 845,600 tons since the beginning of the year, which is 11% better than in January-December 2006.

The company’s press officer says the increase in shipment output can be explained by the fact that more orders came from their traditional customers like Gazprom, Transneft, and a number of vertically integrated oil companies in most branches of industry. This was particularly true of LDPs, producing strings, and weldless line pipes.