Rimera Group, a services division of Russian steel pipe producer ChTPZ, has announced that its shipments to CIS customers were up by more than 20 percent in 2013. Aggregate product shipments by Rimera to CIS markets exceeded RUB 0.7 billion ($19.65 million) in 2013.
Just like in 2012, Kazakhstan remained the chief foreign trade partner of Rimera among the neighboring nations in 2013. Contracts with petroleum production companies in Kazakhstan account for almost 40 percent of all Rimera shipments to CIS markets.
Rimera Group's Czech asset, MSA, accounted for the bulk of 2013 shipments to Uzbekistan, another CIS member state. The five-time increase in the volume of deliveries compared to 2012 is owing to MSA's winning bid in a tender process to select a supplier of pipeline valves for Asia Trans Gas, which is building the Uzbekistan-China gas pipeline.
Fuel and energy sector companies of Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Belarus are also among customers in neighboring nations that take delivery of products from Rimera Group companies.