ChTPZ Group's flagship assets - Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk Novotrubny Zavod - will be merged into one industrial group with Zagorsk Tube Plant to provide the fuel and energy sector enterprises with pipes and related products. The new group may occupy more than a third of the domestic market in the segment of large diameter pipes. At the first stage of the deal, ChTPZ's major shareholder Andrey Komarov, together with his partners, will enter into the capital of Zagorsky Pipe Plant at a 50% stake. The next stage will be consolidation of industrial assets of the parties.