ChTPZ Group’s Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant delivered 155,700 tons of tubular goods to their customers in January and February 2009, which falls short of the figures for a year earlier (that is, 256,800 tons) by 39%.

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant shipped 86,700 tons of pipes and tubes to customers in the first two months of 2009, including 55,000 tons of large-diameter pipes. In February 2009, the plant delivered 48,300 tons of tubular goods to consumers, including 29,200 tons of LDPs.

Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant sold 41,000 tons of goods in February 2009 and 69,000 tons since the beginning of the year.