TMK, one of the world's leading producers of steel pipe for the oil and gas industry, Wednesday announced that it has partnered with the US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to become a member company in the school's Industrial Liaison Program (ILP). TMK becomes one of approximately 200 companies across the globe (and the first Russian company) to gain access to MIT resources and receive benefits from the ILP's extensive human and intellectual capital.
Piotr Galitzine, Chairman of TMK IPSCO, the American division of TMK, is eager for this new relationship between academia and industry.
"MIT is one of the world's outstanding research universities, and TMK is one of the world's leading oil and gas pipe producers," said Galitzine. "By joining the ILP, TMK will partner with internationally recognized experts in business and technology, and have access to unique research and development opportunities."
TMK IPSCO operates in North America as a division of TMK, one of the three global market leaders in energy pipe production. TMK operates twenty three production facilities around the world.