KIEV, June 18 - Interpipe Nikopol Seamless Pipe Plant Niko Tube and Interpipe Nikopol Pipe Company (both based in Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk region), part of the Interpipe Group, will merge into Interpipe NIKO TUBE Ltd., stockholders in these companies decided at a meeting last week.

The share of Interpipe Niko Tube will be 83.85% of the united company, the statutory fund of which will equal to the united statutory funds of the two companies or UAH256.829 million.