UC RUSAL’s Bogoslovskiy smelter started working on some large treads and protectors meant for anticorrosion protection of an international gas pipeline located on the bottom of the Kara Sea. Over 74 tons of protectors have to be made within the first order, UC RUSAL’s press officer for Ural Federal District Roman Lukichev reports.

The protectors are made from aluminum alloys; the produce has been certified, awarded with the quality seal, and is believed to outstrip its foreign counterparts in some respects.

Bogoslovskiy smelter has already taken part in the construction of oil and gas platforms in the Barents Sea, the Baltic Sea, and in the Caspian Sea; the enterprise also participated in the putting up of North-European pipeline.

Now the smelter has managed to design, produce, and install the equipment necessary to make these unprecedented goods and launch the continuous casting and shipment of products within only three weeks of signing the agreement. The customer’s first order has already been completed, with all the protectors shipped to Moscow pipe facility.

‘Our plant and our contractor’s employees did a very good job. They did everything in a nice, organized and quick way and came up with good quality products. Doing business with customers like these is a very promising thing. For one, we have already received an order for the delivery of 44,000 tons of protectors,’ says Bogoslovskiy smelter’s GD Oleg Burkatskiy.