Tube Making in Ukraine and Current Development Trends  Full text

G. G. Shepel¹, V. P. Sokurenko¹, Ya. I. Litvinskiy¹, I. V. Kalinin¹, L. P. Ksaverchuk²

¹ State Enterprise "Ya. Yu. Osada Scientific Research Tube Institute"
1a Pisarzhevskiy St., 5, Dniepropetrovsk, 49600, Ukraine
² Association “Ukrtruboprom”

UDC 621.774(477)

Metall. Min. Ind.,  2010, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 130-132

Abstract

The role of Ukrainian pipe & tube industry, its formation and development in the independent state are shown. The role of individual plants and leading companies in the innovational and investment process of present tube making development is described. Necessity of innovational and investment activity of pipe & tube producers and cooperation with the branch scientific-research organizations to support the product competitiveness in the foreign and home markets is pointed out.

Keywords: TUBE MAKING, INNOVATION PROJECTS, TUBE PRODUCERS