UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) launched a new automatic steel cylinder stamping unit, the Group’s press service reports.

‘The unit can stamp up to 600 small-size steel cylinders a day. The unit stamps the serial number, manufacture date, the date of the next necessary tech exam, the working and testing pressure parameters, thermal treatment info, and capacity and mass parameters onto the cylinders automatically. What is more, the data for each cylinder get stored in an e-archive as well,’ the press service says.

ChelPipe Group has been working on getting its tech processes automated as part of the customer-oriented transformation program. This results in reduced operating costs, improved production, and better product quality,’ says ChelPipe Group’s Tech Director Kirill Nikitin.

Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant is Russia’s only enterprise to make a wide range of cylinders from carbonized, alloyed, and corrosion-resistant steels and alloys. The plant’s produce gets used in the aviation, space, chemical, and oil-extracting industries as well as in machine-building and ship-building sectors, healthcare, and in firefighting vehicles.