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Company Established in 1992, United Metallurgical Company (OMK) is currently one of Russia’s largest industrial companies. OMK comprises seven large metallurgical enterprises located in Russia’s Central Russian and the Volga Region (Moscow Region, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Republic of Tatarstan), and the Mid-Ural Region (Perm Territory, Chelyabinsk Region). OMK comprises two divisions – the Pipe-Rolling Division and the Steel Works Division. At present, the OMK entities employ a total of over 26 thousand people.
In 2008, OMK products accounted for as much as 16% of pipe consumption in Russia, including 35% of large-diameter pipes, 63% of Russian railroad wheel consumption, and about 80% of automobile spring consumption. In 2007, OMK entities produced 1.8 million tonnes of pipes of various sizes and 820 thousand railroad wheels. Major consumers of OMK products include such leading Russian and foreign companies as Gazprom, LUKOIL, Transneft, Surgutneftegas, Rosneft, TNK-BP, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, General Electric, and Samsung.
OMK is a team of professionals with successful experience of managing large-scale investment projects. The Company is working to achieve its strategic goal of becoming the most efficient in the Russian ferrous industry. To that end, OMK builds new enterprises in Russia and makes substantial investments in rehabilitating the existing facilities.
Pipe-Rolling Division
The OMK Pipe-Rolling Division comprises Vyksa Steel Works (Vyksa, Nizhni Novgorod Region), Almetyevsk Pipe Plant (Almetyevsk, Republic of Tatarstan), and Trubodetal (Chelyabinsk).
Founded in 1757, Vyksa Steel Works is Russia’s largest pipe plant and a historic center of the Russian metallurgical industry. Its potential capacity is over 2 million tonnes of pipes per year. Today, Vyksa Steel Works has the most advanced and high-technology pipe production in Russia. Its principal products are electric-welded steel pipes with diameters ranging from 15 to 1,420 mm and wall thicknesses of up to 48 mm for the transportation of oil, gas, and water; casing pipes for oil and gas field construction; and shaped pipes. Vyksa Steel Works is Russia’s only manufacturer of large-diameter thick-walled pipes designed for subsea pipelines. Vyksa Steel Works pipes have two- or three-layer anticorrosive polyethylene coatings. Vyksa Steel Works uses technology and equipment satisfying the highest international standards. VSW is Russia’s largest producer of railroad wheels. OMK-branded railroad wheels are supplied to many countries. In Russia, the key buyer of OMK-made wheels is Russian Railways.
Built in 1966 in the mid-Volga region, Almetyevsk Pipe Plant is regarded as a major producer of medium-diameter pipes for the local oil industry. Its shops were radically rehabilitated and its primary manufacturing equipment was renovated in 1992–1998. Almetyevsk Pipe Plant makes pipes with diameters ranging from 17 to 219 mm and wall thicknesses ranging from 1.5 to 8 mm, square- and rectangular-section shaped pipes with sizes of 15x10 to 100x100 mm and wall thicknesses of 1.5 to 4.0 mm. Its total annual capacity is 300 thousand tonnes of pipes. Almetyevsk Pipe Plant uses Mannesmann’s high-performance equipment and technology to protect pipes with two- or three-layer external anticorrosive polyethylene coatings. Almetyevsk Pipe Plant also provides COPON epoxy-based anticorrosive protection for internal surfaces of pipes with diameters ranging from 114 to 426 mm.
Trubodetal became a part of United Metallurgical Company in 2005 and is currently one of Russia’s and the CIS’s largest producers of low-alloyed connection fittings for pipelines with diameters ranging from 57 to 1,420 mm. Trubodetal is a key supplier for the construction of oil and gas supply pipelines and main pipeline networks. Its design capacity is 30 thousand tonnes of fittings per year, with a product range of over 500 items in seamless and welded forged versions. All of Trubodetal’s products have ISO and GOST R certification and comply with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. Since 1970, Trubodetal has taken an active part in all large-scale projects for oil and gas condensate field construction, such as Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod, Yamal-Europe, Baltic Pipeline System (BPS), Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), and Blue Stream.
In 2007, Trubodetal set itself a goal of modernizing its production of seamless knuckle bends complying with GOST 17375-2001 and GOST 30753-2001, forged T-bends complying with GOST 17376-2001, concentric reducers complying with GOST 17378-2001, and elliptical blind flanges complying with GOST 17379-2001.
Steel Works Division
Chusovoy Metallurgical Works is one of the oldest ferrous mills in the Urals area with a complete metal production cycle. In 2009, CMW celebrated its 130th anniversary. The specific nature of its business was originally determined by its geographical location in the very heart of the Urals off the Chusovaya River, close to sources of raw materials and energy. Chusovoy Metallurgical Works is Russia’s only ferrovanadium manufacturer with a complete production cycle. Its unique feature is the use of vanadium-containing titanomagnetite iron ore as raw material. Chusovoy Metallurgical Works has blast-furnace, steel-smelting, ferroalloy, rolling, and spring production processes. It makes high-quality metal products: rolled section steel; special shaped steel for the automotive, machine building, shipbuilding, and other industries; vanadium cast iron; refined cast iron; automobile springs. Today, Chusovoy Metallurgical Works is one of the most promising and successful industrial enterprises in the Kama River region. It is a Russian leader in the manufacture of automobile springs and ferrovanadium and holds a firm position in the rolled products and reinforcing steel market. Its products are well known in Russia and in many European and Asian countries. Among customers of Chusovoy Metallurgical Works are automotive giants, such as KAMAZ, GAZ, etc.
Gubakha Coke is a company established as a result of reorganization of the Western Urals’ oldest enterprise, the Gubakha Coke and Chemical Works. At present, this is an up-to-date high-technology facility with a complete coke-chemical production cycle. Put into operation in February 2002, existing coke-oven battery No. 2-BIS with annual capacity of 650 thousand tonnes of total coke is one of the industry’s “youngest” and satisfies the strictest technical and environmental requirements. The Coal Preparation Shop, the Coal Tar Processing Shop, and the By-product Recovery Shop form a sophisticated complex of industrial production facilities operating in an integrated processing chain. Gubakha Coke products—furnace coke and chemical coking products—are well known outside the Perm Territory and are supplied to leading enterprises of the Russian metallurgy and chemical industries. Gubakha Coke’s high reputation is based on the reliability and high quality of its products.
Shchelkovo Metallurgical Works is the Russian unique steel mill that embodies recent engineering advances of Russian R&D centers and accomplishments of leading Western European companies. Shchelkovo Metallurgical Works is the only plant in Russia to make high-quality ultrathin bands out of cold-rolled steel and alloys with an ultralow carbon content and with the preset level of stress-strain and physical properties. Its products are designed for the automotive, electric-bulb, cable, and instrument-making industries and for manufacturers of storage batteries, chemical power sources, and other equipment.
The Casting and Rolling Complex (CRC) was put into operation in September 2008. The initial capacity of CRC is 1.5 million tonnes of coils per year. CRC supply high-quality hot-rolled coils to the electric pipe welding shops of Vyksa Steel Works и Almetyevsk Pipe Plant producing small- and medium-diameter pipes. CRC is also capable of making high-grade rolled steel for the automotive and shipbuilding industries, and for the production of railroad cars. The CRC project based on the world’s latest advances in science and engineering in the field of metallurgy makes it technologically unique. For the first time in global practices, rolled strips, including those designed for ultra-strength and corrosion-resistant pipes, will be made out of thin slabs.
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