KIEV, Sept. 20 - The Interpipe Corporation's Nyzhniodniprovsky Pipe Plant announced plans to export $70 million in railway wheels to non-CIS countries in 2006, rising to $100 million in 2007.

Mikhail Iskov, general manager of Switzerland's KLW Wheel Co., the exclusive distributor of the NDTZ wheels, told Interfax that Europe would import 40%-45% of all railway wheels shipped to the non-CIS this year, North America - 30%, East Asia - 30% and Australia, Africa and Latin America - 10%.