Ukraine’s Interpipe to supply railway wheels for Delhi subway

Monday, 21 February 2011

The Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel company Interpipe, one of the largest global producers of railway wheels under the KLW brand, has announced that it has won a tender to supply railway wheels for the subway system in Delhi, India.

The total volume of the order is 200 wheels. Railway wheels under the KLW brand will be used to repair the rolling stock of the Delhi subway.

"For the last 10 years we have supplied railway wheels under the KLW brand to the Indian market. In previous years, we have supplied wheels mainly for suburban and freight transportation. One of the last projects finished in September 2010 was the handover of production technology for 955 mm diameter railway wheels for local EMU [electric multiple unit] trains to the Durgapur Steel Plant (Durgapur, India)," Interpipe's director of railway wheel sales Mikhael Iskov said.

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Tags: India , Ukraine , CIS , South Asia , Indian Subcon , construction , steelmaking , manufacturing , production , consumption, Durgapur Steel Plant

Ukraine temporarily suspends rolled steel product shipments to Egypt

Monday, 07 February 2011 15:12:40 (GMT+2)
Ukrainian steel producers have temporarily suspended shipments of rolled steel products to Egypt, due to the political crisis in this country, Russian information agency Prime-Tass has reported, citing Vladimir Pikovskiy, head of the steel and mining industry department of Derzhzovnishinform (DZI), the Ukrainian national research and information center for monitoring international commodity markets. According to Mr. Pikovskiy, none of the Ukrainian steel exporters will risk making shipments to Egypt until March. "No one is canceling contracts, but shipments in February are probably not worth the risk," he said, adding that the temporary stoppage of shipments of rolled steel products to Egypt will not affect the output of the Ukrainian steelmakers. According to DZI data, in 2010 Ukraine's steelmakers exported 944,000 mt of rolled steel products to Egypt, accounting for 3.5 percent of total export of these products. Ukrainian steelmakers' total rolled steel product exports to North African countries amounted to 1.23 million mt in 2010, accounting for 4.6 percent of the total exports of Ukrainian steel products (27 million mt).
Tags: Egypt , Ukraine , Africa , CIS , steelmaking , trading
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