Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov arrives on a working visit in Chelyabinsk
11 September 2014, Thursday
On September 11, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov arrived in Chelyabinsk to visit production facilities and meet Acting Governor of Chelyabinsk region Boris Dubrovsky.
Ildar Khalikov will also meet Tatar diaspora of the region and visit agricultural complex “Ariant”.
Upon his arrival Ildar Khalikov visited Chelyabinsk pipe plant to see production of single-joint big-diameter welded pipes. Due to this production Russian fuel and energy sector can provide itself with big-diameter pipes. These pipes can be used in pipeline laying in permafrost areas, earthquake zones and under the sea.
The Prime Minister also got familiar with foundry production for fuel and energy industry at a new Russian-Italian steel plant OOO “BVK”, the most state-of-the-art plant in Russia and Europe.
Due to the electric-arc steelmaking unit with liquid steel degassing, the plant can produce high-quality carbon and stainless steel. The end customers of the produce are Russian oil and gas companies, enterprises of energy and military industrial sector.
The plant production capacity is 25,000 tonnes of foundry products per year.
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