The network of sales offices covers the key markets of Ukraine, CIS, Middle East, North America, and Europe.
The mill was equipped with an electric furnace for generating steel from scrap metal produced from the waste of pipe and rail wheel production.
[9] Interpipe began supplying steel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) market in the early 2000s with up to 16% of global sales coming from this region.
[12] Awarded a long-term contract in 2016,[13] in 2017, Interpipe delivered an initial order of 3,000 wheels to the Saudi Railways Organization (SRO).
[16] In 2022, Interpipe increased production of oil well equipment and railway wheels by 60% compared to the same period in 2021, before the Russo-Ukrainian war had started.
[19] In 2024, the Swiss company KLW Wheelco delivered a party of 2,000 steel wheels to India manufactured by Interpipe.
This agreement resulted from an anti-dumping investigation into Interpipe's activities in the U.S. market and required Ukrainian pipes to be sold at a fixed price.
[27] In July 2021, the U.S. government imposed an anti-dumping duty of 23.75%,[28] leading Interpipe to announce its exit from the market.
[31] This decision followed an investigation initiated by Vallourec Star, which found that Interpipe had sold approximately 40,000 tons of pipes in the U.S. in 2019 at dumping prices totaling over $40 million.
[34] That same year, Interpipe and the French company Vallourec announced the establishment of a joint venture for exporting seamless pipes to EU markets.
[43][44][45] In 2017, Interpipe along with Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Commerce and Industry registered a new trademark to take action against fake steel products in Middle Eastern markets.
Roughly 80% of the pipe supplied by Interpipe in response to a contract signed under this tender were rejected for poor quality.
An industry expert called the supplied materials "scrap metal" and blamed Ukraine's Ministry of Economy for allowing Interpipe to exercise de facto monopoly power over the steel pipe market.
[50][51] As of August 2024, Interpipe was involved in a pre-trial investigation by the Ukrainian government regarding the overpricing of casing pipes, causing substantial damage to the state.
The HACC determined in a pre-trial ruling that the overpricing, amounting to about UAH 18 million, was conducted through the abuse of transfer pricing by subsidiaries of Interpipe and other companies.
These filings list Interpipe's business locations, tax payments, senior executives in Russia, certain expenses, etc.