Russian steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that it is implementing a development program for the adoption of STO Gazprom series 9000 corporate standards requirements, in order to receive Gazprom's quality management systems certification.
Accordingly, by adoption of STO Gazprom 9001-2006 corporate standards requirements, MMK aims to improve its quality management system and to increase steel product deliveries to companies filling orders for Gazprom, including major Russian pipe producers such as ChTPZ, OMK and TMK.
The receipt of the Gazprom standards certification is planned for March 2010.
In 2008, MMK's deliveries of steel products to local pipe producers exceeded 1.6 million mt, i.e. 26 percent of company's total sales in the domestic market.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, in 2007 MMK and Gazprom signed a cooperation agreement for the period up to 2015, aimed at securing steel supplies from MMK to Gazprom and to its associated companies involved in manufacturing steel pipes for Gazprom.