Dniprostal will feel at the end of the year

The company expects to begin testing Interpipe steelmaking complex Dniprostal at the end of this year. This the company said. "At the end of 2011 we plan to start a cold tests in connection with which this year we will begin recruiting staff for the new plant - said Director of Dniprostal Gennady Yesaulov. - In general, for the mini-mill work, we will need to prepare around 400 highly qualified professionals who will be involved in the management process. "The company said that currently the construction site work completed by 72%. In particular, at the stage of completion is construction of a continuous caster, caster, 2 warehouse ferroalloys, flue gas cleaning and water treatment. Completed construction and successfully tested cable line of 330 kV. Work continues on setting up a substation Furnace and cell Dnieper power station. As you know, of Interpipe Nizhnedneprovskiy Tube Rolling Plant "and an Italian engineering Danieli company in February 2007 signed an agreement to build a mini-mill capacity of 1.32 million tons of steel per year at the site NPOV in Dnepropetrovsk. The project cost amounts to more than 610 million dollars Interpipe - the largest producer of seamless pipes in Ukraine. The company consists of " Interpipe Nizhnedneprovskiy Tube Rolling Plant ", OJSC" Interpipe Novomoskovsk Pipe Works, Inc. Interpipe Niko-Tube "and CJSC" Interpipe Pipe Company. "The company controls the businessman Victor Pinchuk and his family. Ministry of Industry