The Russian steel and pipe producer United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has announced that in 2009 its Novgorod-based pipe producer Vyksa Steel Works (Vyksa) increased its pipe output by 7.5 percent year on year to 1.5 million mt, with its large diameter pipe production amounting to 967,235 mt - up 31.6 percent compared to 2008.
"In 2009, we had successfully filled important orders from our contractors...Our success is primarily the result of deeply thought-out investment policy aimed at technical re-equipment of the company, at the construction of new shops and at the modernization of the existing ones," Vyksa's executive director Vladimir Kochetkov commented.