Salzgitter Group’s Berg participations secure largest order in their corporate history

The Salzgitter Group participations Berg Steel Pipe Corp. and Berg Spiral Pipe Corp., both located in the United States, have received an order from Energy Transfer Partners, Dallas, USA, for the delivery of 480,000 net tons (approx. 430,000 metric tons) of large-diameter pipes for the ET Rover Pipeline Project.

The two companies in Panama City and Mobile are subsidiaries of EUROPIPE GmbH, Mülheim, Germany, a joint venture of Salzgitter AG and AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke.

The order volume for more than 1,000 km spiral and longitudinally welded pipes has secured sound basic capacity utilization of the Mobile and Panama City works throughout the year 2015 and represents the largest single order in Berg’s corporate history. In addition, EUROPIPE GmbH, Mülheim, Germany, will be supplying small volume of thick-walled large- diameter pipes as part of this order.

The ET Rover Pipeline is expected to transport up to 3.25 BCF (billion cubic feet) of natural gas per day from the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays to multiple markets in the Central United States and in Canada.