The United Metallurgical Company (UMC) is one of the key Russian market players, which provides leading energy, transportation and industrial companies with its goods and services. The UMC group comprises five large metallurgical enterprises. The Company’s Pipe-Rolling Division consists of Vyksa Steel Works (Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast) and Almetyevsk Pipe Plant (Tatarstan). The Metallurgical Division includes Chusovoy Metallurgical Works and Gubakhinsky Coke and Chemical Works, both located in Perm region as well as Shchelkovo Metallurgical Works, located in Greater Moscow.The UMC provides over 20% of all domestic steel pipes’ supplies including 30% supplies of the large diameter pipes. The Company holds more than 60% market shares both of the railroad wheels and automotive springs. In 2004 the UMC group produced almost 1 million tones of steel pipes, over 430.000 tones of medium section and hoop and 750.000 of railroad wheels. The Company’s Pipe-Rolling Division consists of Vyksa Steel Works and Almetyevsk Pipe Plant, both located in the Volga region. Vyksa Steel Works (VSW) is a leading Russian producer of the steel pipes, from 15 mm to 1067 mm in diameter and wall thickness up to 32 mm. The pipes are manufactured with two- and three-layer anticorrosive polyethylene coatings. Almetyevsk Pipe Plant (APP) produces steel pipes, from 15 mm to 219 mm in diameter with two-layer anticorrosive polyethylene coating. All steel pipes produced at UMC’s plants are certified according to the American Petroleum Institute (API) standards.

Areas of Expertise: Raw Materials, Tubes and Accessories (Tubes made from various manufacturing and processing methods (welded, cold and hot drawn, pressed), Tubes made from various manufacturing and processing methods (welded, cold and hot drawn, pressed), Tubes made from various manufacturing and processing methods (welded, cold and hot drawn, pressed), Tubes made from various manufacturing and processing methods (welded, cold and hot drawn, pressed), Conduits, Conduits, Construction Tubes)