Low demand was a problem, now it is becoming a curse for the Russian sheet steel market. Consumer activity has completely died down. In turn, distributors are reducing purchases of steel products from plants. Metallurgical plants, of course, are reducing output and/or exporting more rolled products, but the volumes of warehouse stocks at trading houses and independent metal traders, at a minimum, are not decreasing. Some metallurgical companies have not abandoned the idea of raising factory ...

Chepetsk Mechanical Plant (ChMZ, an enterprise of Rosatom's Fuel Division in Glazov, Republic of Udmurtia) has realized production of seven new nomenclatures of titanium alloy pipes for aviation pipeline systems. Such pipes with diameters from 6.35 mm to 31.75 mm and wall thicknesses from 0.4 mm to 1.3 mm were previously purchased by the Russian aviation industry from European suppliers. By 2030, Chepetsk Mechanical Plant plans to produce about 100 kilometers of titanium pipes for hydraulic ...