Ukrainian pipe producer Interpipe Corporation (Interpipe) will postpone the commissioning of its new electric steelmaking plant from August 2011 to late 2011 due to delays in equipment supplies, according to media reports.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, the construction of the plant, which will be capable of producing 1.32 million mt of round billets and blooms per annum, started in 2007, with all necessary equipment being supplied by Italian plantmaking company Danieli
The site of the new $610 million electric steel plant is within the grounds of the company's largest existing mill in Dnepropetrovsk, the Niznedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant (NTRP), and has been designed to replace NTRP's obsolete steelmaking capacities and to supply cheap steel semi-finished steel for all Interpipe-owned pipe and rail producing plants.