Tashkent Pipe Plant launches new capacities
23/04/2014 12:46
Tashkent Pipe Plant launches new capacities
23/04/2014 12:46
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Tashkent Pipe Plant JV LLC has commissioned a metal-rolling complex with total cost of US$30 million.
At the initial stage, the enterprise will be able to produce 55,000 tonnes of hot-rolled steel bars. Later, the company will be able to produce 130,000 tonnes of steel bars and rods of various sizes in diameter from 6 to 45 mm. Previously, these products were imported into Uzbekistan.
The length of installed rolling mill is nearly one kilometer, and on various technical and economic parameters and design decisions it has no analogues in Central Asia and in the CIS countries. The products will meet international quality standards.
Current task of the plant is to ensure uninterrupted work of new capacities, which provides jobs to 400 people and start the second stage of the project, which will increase number of employees to 5,000 people.
The project was financed due to resources of the founders of the enterprise.
As part of the expansion of capacities, the company also launched in April production of 89-219 mm longitudinal welded pipes and 270-700 mm profile pipes with a total capacity of 55,000 tonnes a year, as well as steel pipes coated with polyolefin with the capacity of 8000 tonnes a year. In June, the plant will start production of oil and gas spiral welded pipes of the standard API-Sp.5L 1220-1620 mm diameter with the capacity of 16,000 tonnes a year.
Tashkent Pipe Plant was commissioned in 1999 and currently it is the largest company on production of pipes in Uzbekistan. The founders of the joint venture were Almetyevsk Pipe Plant (Russia), Capital Industrial Supply (USA) and division and association Uzmontazhspetsstroy.
The company produces steel thin-walled water- gas pipes (designed capacity of 26,000 tonnes), steel pipes for main oil and gas pipelines with diameter of 159-377 mm (6000 tonnes) , as well as profiled sheets and wavy slate of galvanized steel and pipe bends .
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