Dmitry Medvedev signed the tube TAGMET.

visiting Taganrog, Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev pobyvap at Taganrog Metallurgical Plant. He visited a tube mill, which established a complex to produce seamless pipes with a continuous tube mills PQF capacity of 600 thousand tons of pipes per year. These pipes are intended for use in extreme conditions, drilling and production of hydrocarbons, including offshore and Arctic oil fields. Employees of the plant asked Dmitry Medvedev to sign on one of the pipes, which will be delivered in "Pechoraneft for the development of the Pechora fields.

Head of State wrote in pipe "Russia, forward! TAGMET 29.01.10.

Seamless tubes are made from scrap metal in the open-hearth shop casting. A year hearth casting will be discontinued and replaced it will elektroduhovaya continuous. TMK is the first company in the world, successfully launched the most modern technological equipment for the production of a new generation of seamless pipes used in oil and gas developments.