SOVIET FACILITIES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 1020 MM PIPE (S-1011)

Created: 6/10/1963

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Goviet Facilities for tho Production

or lego gg ripe

Tho USSR han, or claims to novo, faclllttCB forrm

pipe atplants: the fiovo rtoakovok Tube Works, the Chelyabinsk Tuba Hill, the Zlylch Steel Plant at Zhdanov, and tho Khartsyszk Tube Plant-

1. floyo HpskovskThe0 era pipe-making equipment inetailed ln this plant The pipe is madeouble-veldlo, by veldlng together tvo pre-forwed itaLveo. egligible amount of pipe was producedl anil although output increased Inroduction admittedly was less than the plan in the first half of tho year ond probablyf the year-

0 ma pine capacity reportedly was installed in the plant recently. Those facilities have been described no the "second oection" of the ohop, as a "second production'line, and as tho "second stage" of the shop. ch of these designations could have different mscnlnco In rclctlon to potential output. econd production line.

for crxrplc, couldoubling of existing capacity. The other designations, however, could refer to the Installation of additional

welding equipment but with no additional forming nreoseB--in which case

edacityecessarily double, Jtoroovcr, there ore references to

Alno being Installed at thin plant are facilities for producing welded pipe ranging ln olaozs ln diameter. Production problomn nay well devolop whon these fncllltica are put in oporation. It vlll bc tho first known Soviet application of high- frequency welding (lnoteod of submerged-arc voiding) In raklag pipe ao largea.

Thla la tha (OSD'a largcot pipe and tubevan oald InB'to coke "the bulit of tho,a gas and oilhe plant cokes bothwelded pipe. Until early30 mm nipe vas madealthough constructionhop for such This project vas behind schedule during nost if not all

2 and It una only under tho lupoct of the ranbergo that the "priority" ohoracter of tho plant vas finally translated into action.

Aa at Bovo0 on pipe being cale at Chelyabinsk in producedLraight-eeen, double-woldwelding toghtbor two pre-formerf halve*. The first batches of plyo were made late inecond "tcehnftlogleal" line reportedly una bolaa Ciniohed coril. This could ncea that additional ve'.dlng equipment was being installed cszl does not neceanarlly mean the Installation of another line of preparation and forming equipment and vcldi^fe- equipment.

(Shdsnov) Pacllltleo foripe wereinstalled ln this plant- eport ofSyndicatedand adjusting of the nill van beginning. Thla equipment,at novo, BOSkovsk end Cholynblnflk,piral weld nlll. Milstypo have been ln operation at Ilylch ol least1 and were

designed to no Kb pipe la the6n.

VorJc. apparently hoo been underway olnce2 ong thc existing equipment ln order to utilize opiral voiding Inmm pipe. This probablyeport early? tc vhlch lt vac claimed that the first "batches" of opiral0 ma pipe had been node ot thae plant. fVobably on the basio of technology developed ot that point, end aa iaiproved during tho remainder of the year, plans vero made for tho loo3 At ion of tvo nev spiral veld cilia and ths reconstruction of an eKinting millS3. Tha nev mlUo vera scheduled to he ln operation in April and In -August; tha reconstructed on* vca to ba put in production in Juno. "Testing and adjusting" of the "main mechanism" of the first of these was reported ontoy and the oacn report claimed that the mill scheduled to be brought ln in June will be put in operation ln Jiiy

snort ayaskno of tbo older pipe and tube plants in tho PBSttj the Ithnrtayggk plant boo prcdoced large diameter veldcd pipe at least since theo, This plant and tho Xlyieh Sbdanov plant reportedly were tlie first ln the USSR to produce olectrle welded goo and oil lino pipe upm diameter. Until recently, tho raxlxuc olzo line pipe the plant could producem diaooter, modetraight-veld, single Been ban is.

Inravda report otated that conatruction hod been completed onomplex cf theipe voiding mUlo" nt Ebartsyzsk. Thlo development eimont eertrinlyesult of the embargo. There lo no

evidence in availablen piano for tha industry that vould indicate any previous intention to0 en pipe at thin plant. The Pre-van report Claim that construction of thiaoo completed inmonths. It ia obviousompletoly new pipo voiding shop could not bo otorted end coaplotcd in that tins. If ths plant ia in fact to0 ma pipo, thc "construction" referred to in Pravda may have consisted of installing larger forming prcssco or of modifications cf existing production facilities, in which case produotion0 en pipe will Ira in part at tha expense cf othor large-diameter pipe.

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