ChTPZ starts production of 550 mm round billets

Pervouralsky Novotrubny Works, a subsidiary of Russian pipe producing company ChTPZ Group, has announced that it has started production of round billets with diameter of 550 mm at its electric arc furnace plant Zhelezniy Ozon 32. ChTPZ's demand for such billets is around 100,000 mt per year. The electric arc furnace plant produces round billets with diameters of 150 mm , 220 mm and 460 mm, as well as 150 mm square billets.