Novosibirsk Metallurgical Works named after Kuzmin (NMZK), a subsidiary of the Russian steel producer ESTAR Holding (ESTAR) and since July 2009 under the control of Russia's largest metal trader Metallservis Group (Metallservis), has announced that in April this year its mill 810 in its hot rolling shop produced 13,639 mt of hot rolled coils, from which it manufactured 12,079 mt of rolled products and pipes. Of these manufactured steel products, 11,344 mt were steel pipes, while the rest were cold rolled strip, and cold and hot rolled sheet.
According to NMZK's production director Vladimir Shamraev, the plant currently does not face any shortage of the slabs necessary for its operations, and all of its production workshops are loaded with orders.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, in April 2010 NMZK commissioned its new electric welding pipe mill 10-14, focused on the production of round pipes of 16-51 mm diameter under Russian standard GOST-10704, as well as on the production of shaped pipes under standards GOST-8639 and GOST-8645, of sizes from 15 x 15 mm to 40 х 25 mm with wall thickness from 1.2 mm to 2.0 mm.