Ukraine-based seamless stainless steel tube producer Centravis Production Ukraine has announced the successful testing of its new cold rolling tube mill KPW-25 supplied by Germany-based producer SMS MEER. The total investments in the mill amounted to USD 5.1 million. Accordingly, the new KPW-25 mill will allow Centravis to increase its production capacities and to improve the quality of cold drawn tubes of 8mm to 30mm outside diameter. The average capacity of the KPW-25 mill is 280m per hour, which is three times faster than the current capacity of the tube drawing mills at the plant. In August 2009 Centravis plans to commission its second analogue KPW-25 mill and to launch a new tube pressing line.