OMK starts to produce new class of pipes

Russia's United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has mastered the production of new class of pipes, which are in line with standard API 5L. The new technology in the pipe production was installed at Vyksa Steel Works, a member of OMK. Previously, the pipes with diameter of 762 mm and thickness of wall of 38.1 mm were produced only by four companies worldwide: Nippon Steel and Sumitomo (Japan), Europipe (Germany) and Corus (England). OMK shipped the first order of the pipes to construction of sea-based platforms for Lunskiy and Pilsnunsk oil deposits in the framework of Sahalin-2 project.