The Russian pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has announced the production results for the first eleven months of 2008 of its subsidiaries; Urals area-based Chusovoy Steel Works (Chusovoy), Nizhni Novgorod-based pipe producer Vyksa Steel Works (Vyksa), and Perm region-based Gubakha Coke.
During the given period, Chusovoy recorded an 8.97 percent decrease in its finished steel output to 371,400 mt, and a 4.27 percent drop in its crude steel production to 450,400 mt, both compared to the same period of last year.
Vyksa's production of pipes during the first eleven months of 2008 amounted to 1.3 million mt, including 667,567 mt of large diameter pipes.
During the period in question, Gubakha Coke produced 466,100 mt of coke, recording an increase of 16 percent compared with the same period last year.