Interpipe Group (TTs Interpipe)

About Interpipe

Interpipe is a Ukrainian industrial company headquartered in Dnipro and a global manufacturer of steel pipes and railway products. The product range includes seamless steel pipes (including OCTG and premium threaded connections for the oil and gas industry), electrically welded steel pipes, hollow sections, railway wheels (monobloc wheels), rail tyres and steel billets. Steel production has taken place since 2012 in the company's own electric steel plant (EAF) with a capacity of 1.32 million tonnes per year based on steel scrap with an approximately 97% recycled share. The group comprises the plants Interpipe NTZ (Dnipro), Interpipe Niko Tube (Nikopol), Interpipe Novomoskovsk Pipe Plant (Samar) as well as the scrap processing company Interpipe Vtormet. Through a network of sales offices in Ukraine, Europe, North America and the Middle East, customers in more than 60 countries are supplied, including the energy, mechanical engineering and construction industries as well as rail operators such as the Saudi Railways Organization, Indian Railways and Greenbrier.

Site

Dnipro, Ukraine

Processes

Manufacture of seamless steel pipes (seamless pipes), Electrically welded steel pipes (electric welding), Manufacture of railway wheels (monobloc wheels) and rail tyres, Steel production via electric arc furnace (EAF) from scrap, Pipe finishing (pipe finishing line), Scrap metal processing, Manufacture of steel pipes (seamless, HSS, OCTG, premium threaded connections), Manufacture of railway wheels, tyres and railway products

Materials

Steel Billet, Carbon steel (pipes), Steel scrap (EAF input material), Recycled steel (EAF route), Carbon steel, Steel scrap

Founded

1990

Employees

9000

Industries

Energy / oil and gas industry (OCTG), Rail transport (freight and passenger transport), Mechanical engineering, Construction / general pipe applications, Metal processing

1. 01

   Scrap processing (Interpipe Vtormet)

2. 02

   Steel production in the electric arc furnace (EAF)

3. 03

   Continuous casting / steel billet

4. 04

   Seamless pipe manufacturing

5. 05

   Electrically welded pipe manufacturing

6. 06

   Pipe finishing (finishing line)

7. 07

   Rolling of railway wheels and tyres

8. 08

   Warehousing & shipping

9. 09

   Distribution via worldwide sales offices

Materials & Processes

Sites

Processes & technical limits

2 Anlagen & Maschinen

History

1. 1932

   Start of drill pipe production at the Karl Liebknecht plant; 1933: 7,020 workers, 420 engineers

2. 1943–1948

   Destruction in the Second World War, reconstruction from 1943, full restoration of production by 1948

3. 1990

   Foundation of the Interpipe Group

4. 2007

   Opening of the Middle East headquarters in Dubai

5. 2012

   Commissioning of the electric steel plant (EAF) with 1.32 million t/year capacity after five years of construction and approx. USD 700 million in construction costs

6. 2016

   Modernisation of the plants in Dnipro (railway products) for USD 16.2 million; market plans in Qatar; trademark registration in the UAE

7. 2017

   First delivery of 3,000 wheels to the Saudi Railways Organization; introduction of an online verification service against product counterfeiting

8. 2018

   Pilot operation of a new pipe finishing line at Interpipe Niko Tube (approx. USD 8 million); EU anti-dumping duty reduced from 13.8% to 8.1%

9. 2021

   US anti-dumping duty of 23.75% leads to exit from the US market; termination of the joint venture agreement with Vallourec

10. 2022

    Increase in production of oil drilling equipment and railway wheels by 60% compared to 2021

11. 2023

    End of the EU anti-dumping restrictions; sales growth to the EU of 44% (approx. 46,000 t); 850 t of pipes delivered to Iraq; loss of USD 1.2 million due to border blockades

12. 2024

    Fitch rating 'CCC-'; delivery of 2,000 steel wheels (via KLW Wheelco) to Indian Railways; contract with Greenbrier for railway wheels