Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Metalloinvest Company intend to expand on their cooperation within the next three years. The parties agreed to have more flat stock shipments from Metalloinvest’s Ural Steel to Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant.

Metalloinvest will become one of the main suppliers of flat stock meant for the production of pipes that will be used in the main connecting Purovsky condensate processing plant and Tobolsk Neftekhim (the project is currently implemented by SIBUR).

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant signed a three-year contract with SIBUR for the delivery of 170,000 tons of pipe products in June 2012. The pipes with a protective outer three-layer corrosion-resistant polyethylene coating will be delivered in a few batches throughout 2012-2014.

‘Strategic cooperation with the key flat metal stock suppliers makes it possible for our company to meet our customer obligations on time and comply with the contract terms relating to the quality of the products and the delivery schedule,’ says the plant’s Commercial Director Vladimir Lobko.