Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (ChTPZ Group’s largest tube and pipe manufacturers) supplied their consumers with 1.39 million tons of tubular goods in January-October 2008, which falls short of the figures for a year earlier (that is, 1.624 million tons) by 14%.

ChTPZ sold 737,500 tons of tubes and pipes in ten months of the year, which falls short of the figures for a year earlier (that is, 888,500 tons) by 17%. These figures include a 28% drop in the amount of large-diameter pipes: this came to 355,900 tons compared with 492,000 tons of LDPs in January-October 2007.

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant delivered 61,600 tons of tubular goods to consumers in October 2008 (which falls short of last October’s figures (84,800 tons) by 27%, including 36,100 tons of LDPs, which falls short of figures for October 2007 (48,000 tons) by 25%, the spokesperson for ChTPZ Group reports.

Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant delivered 49,800 tons of tubular goods to consumers in October 2008 (which is 30% less than the 70,900 tons delivered a year earlier) and 652,300 tons since the beginning of the year, which is 11% less than the 735,300 tons delivered in January-October 2007.