This is an article about OAO TMK. For Soviet Space Project TMK see TMK.
OAO "TMK"(Russian: OAO ТМК Трубная Металлургическая Компания)(LSE: TMKS and RTS:TRMK) is the largest Russian producer and supplier of seamless steel pipes. It produces a wide range of commodity and medium range pipes used in the oil and gas sector, by chemical and petrochemical industries, for construction and housing, shipbuilding, aviation, as well as for space industry needs and applications. Its pipes are manufactured from carbon steel, stainless and heat-resistant steels, and titanium and nickel alloys.
Founded in 2001, it has production plants in Russia, the United States, Romania and Kazakhstan and has an annual production capacity of more than 5 million tonnes of pipe products that it delivers to companies in more than 60 countries. TMK employs 50,000 employees worldwide and its annual net sales exceed US$3 billion.
The Company’s Russian plants are Volzhsky Pipe Plant, Seversky Tube Works, Sinarsky Pipe Plant (since February 2002), Taganrog Metallurgical Works (since October 2002), Orsky Machine Building Plant, and Truboplast. TMK’s Romanian assets include TMK-Artrom pipe plant (since February 2002) and TMK-Reşita metallurgical works. In June 2008, TMK finalised the acquisition of IPSCO Tubulars Inc in the United States and acquired Uralsk, Kazakhstan-based Kaztrubprom.
