Evraz to Expand Portland Tubular Operations
08/08/2011 - Evraz Group plans to expand Evraz Inc. NA’s structural tubing facility in Portland, Ore., to add capacity to manufacture API-certified pipe. The expansion is scheduled for completion by August 2012.
Evraz Group plans to expand Evraz Inc. NA’s structural tubing facility in Portland, Ore., to add capacity to manufacture American Petroleum Institute (API) certified pipe. The company expects this multi-million dollar investment to position it to meet the growing demand for oil country tubular goods (OCTG) products in the energy sector.
The expansion is scheduled for completion by August 2012 and will bring the mill’s total capacity from 120,000 tons up to 250,000 tons of API pipe and structural squares, rounds, and rectangles. Evraz will supply steel for the API pipe from its sister steel mill next door. The facility will continue to support the structural tubing market in addition to the new OCTG product line.
Evraz manufactures a comprehensive line of tubular products in small and large diameters for exploration and transmission as well as structural squares, rounds, and rectangles. In addition to Portland, Evraz operates pipe-making facilities in Regina, Saskatchewan; Camrose, Calgary; Red Deer, Alberta; and Pueblo, Colo. The steel for Evraz tubular facilities is supplied by the company’s steelmaking mills in Portland, Regina, and Pueblo.
“Energy exploration in the Bakkens region and western Canada is rapidly expanding, and our customers are looking for more high-quality heat-treated API pipe than we can supply from our western Canadian mills,” said Mike Rehwinkel, President and CEO of Evraz Inc. NA. “Our Portland facility is ideally suited to help fill this need, both in terms of its geographic location as well as the manufacturing expertise of our local team.”
Evraz Group S.A. is a vertically integrated steel, mining, and vanadium business with operations in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Europe, U.S., Canada, and South Africa. The company employs approximately 110,000 people and is ranked the 15th largest steel producer in the world based on crude steel production of 16.3 million tonnes in 2010. Evraz is largely self-sufficient with regard to its iron ore and coking coal requirements with the majority of its internal consumption covered by its mining operations.
