About us

ChelPipe Group is a major player in the Russian metallurgical market and a leading domestic producer of steel pipes.

Company profile

ChelPipe Group operates steel products facilities and companies, including: Chelyabinsk Pipe Plant; Pervouralsk Pipe Plant; a warehouse facility selling the Group's steel pipes in Russian regions; META, a scrap procurement and processing company; Pipeline bends, ETERNO and MSA (Czech Republic), trunkline equipment manufacturers, and Rimera, a provider of oilfield services.

Chelpipe Group is one of the largest pipe manufacturers globally and second largest pipe producer in Russia with a diversified client base. Key segments of Chelpipe is seamless industrial pipes, seamless oil&gas pipes, LDP and another welded pipes, trunk pipeline systems and oilfield services. Chelpipe Group is best-in-class producer of steel pipes with strong position in the Russian market and leadership in growing industrial seamless pipe segments.

ChelPipe Group's mission is to meet any needs of Russian and global fuel and energy companies by developing and supplying integrated solutions to trunkline and intra-field pipeline transport.

With its capacities sufficient to offer a wide product range of welded and seamless pipes, and a mature warehousing system, ChelPipe Group is an effective universal player in the Russian and CIS pipe market, offering steel pipes to all major economic sectors. Chelpipe Group has a corporate META philosophy based on the principles of sustainability and consists of two parts: production system and corporate culture.

Tubular products

manufactured by ChelPipe annually

Number of facilities

serviced by the Rimera-Service network

Currently operating pipelines

in Russia featuring our pipes

Product applications

ChelPipe Group supplies products to fuel and energy companies and other local and export markets in the: EU, CIS, North America, Middle East and North Africa.

Oil and gas
Chemistry and petrochemistry
Engineering and car industry
Energy sector
Construction and public utilities
Industrial facilities

Our footprint

All divisions
Pipeline
Oilfield services
Scrap

Our history

2020

TAPI (Turkmenistan – Afghanistan – Pakistan – India) trunkline

Approximately 200 km of the pipeline in Turkmenistan will be built using ChelPipe Group’s 1,422 mm X70 steel pipes with external corrosion-resistant coating. ChelPipe Group is the only Russian company to have passed all the qualification stages, and its supply conditions were the best of those offered by 94 bidders.

2019

Saryarka trunkline

For the construction of the Saryarka trunkline, ChelPipe Group supplied over 130,000 tonnes of pipe and pipeline components. The 820 mm K60 steel pipes with a wall thickness of 12, 14 and 18 mm have external and internal corrosion-resistant coating. The pipes were manufactured by Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (part of ChelPipe Group).

2018

Nord Stream 2

ChelPipe Group supplies three-layer coated pipes for Nord Stream 2. In total, to build a gas pipeline on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, ChelPipe Group shipped in 2016–2018 around 600 kt of LDP. We also remain the only supplier of low-temperature LDPs to build the near-shore part of the pipeline.

2016

Launch of ETERNO

ChelPipe Group launches ETERNO LLC manufacturing stamp-welded pipeline parts using nanostructured materials. It boasts advanced technology, production process and working culture. The new import substitution facilities were launched by the country’s President Vladimir Putin.

2012

The Agglomerated Flux project

ChelPipe Group doubled its agglomerated flux capacities by putting the second phase of the project into operation. Now the company is able to deliver proprietary “ceramics” for its own LDPs, and sell excess product to third parties.

2011

Establishment of the PNTZ Training Centre

Launch of the corporate «The Future of METAllurgy» training programme and construction of the PNTZ Training Centre. Pervouralsk Pipe Plant, the Government of Sverdlovsk Region and Pervouralsk Metallurgical College signed an agreement on creating a unique training programme.

2010

METAllurgy concept creation

ChelPipe Group launches its cutting-edge Vysota 239 plant for the production of large-diameter single-seam pipes and Iron Ozone 32 electric arc furnace plant.

ChelPipe Group acquired 100% of shares of Pipeline Connecting Bends company (SOT CJSC) specialising in the production of pipeline elbows and assemblies, and 100% of shares of MSA, a manufacturer of pipeline valves.

2009

Launch of the Finishing Centre

The official opening ceremony of the Finishing Centre for the production and processing of oil pipes. Finishing Centre capacities include a coupling production floor, pipe heat treatment line, pipe end upsetting area, pipe NDT site, and tubing and casing pipes threading lines. Investments in the project total RUB 6 bln.

2008

Acqusition of META and Rimera

ChelPipe Group acquired META (META LLC), a scrap company and Rimera (Rimera CJSC) specialised in oilfield services and equipment.

2004

Acquisition of PNTZ

The company acquired 57% of the share capital of Pervouralsk Pipe Plant (PNTZ JSC). In May 2008, ChelPipe increased its stake to 84.5%, and in December 2008 acquired 100% of PNTZ.

1990

Refurbishment of main plants

In the 1970s through 90s, the company refurbished its main plants to boost annual pipe output. Domestic demand for tubular products surged driven by the recovery and rapid development of the oil and gas industry.

1980

World's largest pipe plant

In the 1970s and 80s, we became the world's leading pipe manufacturer with an output of up to 3.5 mtpa. Our pipes were used in the country’s main pipelines, including Druzhba, Bukhara-Ural, Central Asia-Centre, Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod, Surgut-Polotsk, Siyaniye Severa, etc.

1967

Cold-rolled pipes

ChelPipe Group kicks off cold-rolled pipe production with improved mechanical properties and high-accuracy geometry, as well as launches the production of blade spars for MI-26, a heavy transport helicopter.

1963

Launch of LDP production

We were the first company globally to manufacture large-diameter pipes welding two half-cylinders. This news, supported by a photograph of the first pipe with a caption “A pipe for you, Adenauer!!” engraved on it, was a response by the plant's workers to restrictions on large-diameter pipe supplies from West Germany to the USSR.

1942

First ChelPipe products

Resulted from painstaking efforts of our employees working 12–18 hours a day. During the war, Chelyabinsk Pipe Plant was among the suppliers of the Soviet Army, particularly, providing large bombs to the frontline.