Engineer Mohamed Shimi, Minister of Public Business Sector, paid a field visit to Nasr Steel Pipes Manufacturing Company, affiliated to the Holding Company for Metallurgical Industries, as part of the ongoing field visits to affiliated companies to monitor the progress of work and modernization and development plans.

During the visit, he inspected factories and production lines for longitudinally and spirally welded pipes and followed up on the stages of production operations in addition to workshops and warehouses. He also met with the company’s executive leadership and reviewed its current position, performance indicators, production rates, sales volume, inventory position, production requirements, maintenance work, development plans and future vision.

Directing the need to intensify work to improve the company’s performance according to a clear and specific work plan, operating at maximum capacity, developing factories with modern technology, exploiting available assets and capacities, partnering with the private sector, adding new lines, developing workers’ skills and adhering to periodic maintenance, implementing the ERP system to manage the warehouse control system, improving the work environment and occupational health and safety procedures, in the presence of Eng. Mohamed El-Saadawy, Executive Managing Director of the Holding Company for Metallurgical Industries, and Eng. Hesham Abdel Aziz, Managing Director of El-Nasr Steel Pipes Manufacturing Company.

Eng. Mohamed Shimi stressed the importance of the steel pipe industry and its multiple uses, especially in many national and development projects, and that the company is promising and has the elements of success, pointing out the need to raise operational and production capabilities in a way that contributes to meeting the market’s needs for pipes and tubes of various diameters and opening new markets and exporting, within the framework of the state’s orientation to support national industry and localize technology.