Companies@UA: База компаний Украины

Kyiv, August 3 (Interfax) - The Metinvest holding's Khartsyzsk Pipe Mill from Ukraine's Donetsk region saw large-diameter pipe output soar tentatively 2.1-fold year-on-year in January-July to 350,800 tonnes, the company told Interfax.

July output was 48,100 tonnes.

Output on a monthly basis was low for much of the first half of last year, when the plant sold pipes in spot deals. It rose to 52,700 tonnes in December, from 21,000 tonnes in June.

Output of large-diameter pipes in 2008 as a whole fell 23.8% to 387,746 tonnes, including 347,450 tonnes with anti-corrosive, down 24.3%.

Khartsyzsk, one of the FSU's biggest producers of straight-seam pipeline tubes 478-1420 millimeters in diameter with anti-corrosive, has the capacity to produce 1.6 million tonnes of pipes per year.