Severstal Cherepovets, the main steel producing facility of
Severstal Russian Steel, has said that in 2010 it increased its shipments of rolled steel products to
pipe producers by 42 percent year on year to 1.9 million mt, of which more than 1.4 million mt were delivered to Russian domestic customers.
Accordingly, more than a third of
Severstal Cherepovets' total shipments of rolled steel products to Russian domestic
pipe producers consisted of plates produced at its rolling mill 5000 in Kolpino, St. Petersburg. "In 2010 compared to 2009, shipments from the mill 5000 to the
pipe industry increased by almost 1.5 times, amounting to about 550,000 mt," said the company.