April 23, 2014. ChTPZ Group's Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant delivered 410,300,000 kg of steel pipes to consumers in the first quarter of 2014, which was 8% more than a year earlier (381,600,000 kg).

According to ChTPZ press service, pipe plants shipped 238,300,000 kg of weldless pipes to consumers in January-March 2014, which was 1% more than the 236,000,000 kg delivered a year earlier.

The company sold 172,000 welded pipes to consumers, which was 15% more than in the first three months of 2013 (146,000,000 kg). The increase has to do with bigger deliveries of weldless pipes to the CIS markets and the markets of the far abroad and of welded and weldless LDPs to the home market.
All in all, the Group delivered 348,500,000 kg of goods to the domestic market. The increase was 7.2% on a year earlier (323,400,000 kg). Export shipments increased by 5.8% and reached 61,800,000 kg compared with 58,200,000 kg in Q1'13.