Annual report 2015

fourth quarter, hard-metal rollers in two baskets of the push bench started to be tested. The December repair involved an investment in roller cooling in the drawing reduction mill, allowing us to achieve higher rolling finish temperatures and improved structural and mechanical properties of rolled tubes. In the product range of precision cold-drawn tubes, we pro - duced 50 007 tonnes in 2015 and sold 50 580 tonnes of pre - cision tubes to external customers, of which 1 377 tonnes were galvanised tubes, 1 738 tonnes were divided precision tubes and 67 tonnes were hydraulic tubes. The breakdown of precision tubes by the purpose of their use shows a stable situation in terms of the number of orders in most major product groups of the tube drawing plant: standard con - struction, heat exchanger and boiler tubes, and tubes for hydraulic and pneumatic lines. One of the most important investments this year in terms of improving the quality of products was the installation of an ultrasonic head on the Prestar finishing line, which allows us to test tubes using ul - trasound in the dimensional range from 13 to 55 mm. Continuously cast steel blooms, seamless hot-rolled tubes and precision cold-drawn tubes accounted for 99% of the total production of Železiarne Podbrezová a.s. in 2015. Other products –– butt welding elbows and reducers rep - resented a supplementary product range. In 2015, we pro - duced 1 986 tonnes and sold 2 203 tonnes of butt welding elbows and sold 61 tonnes of reducers. Sale of Main Products in 2015 Total Sales of Products Slovakia- 9% Export- 91% in tonnes EUR ‘000 Share in sales in tonnes EUR ‘000 in tonnes EUR ‘000 Con cast steel blooms 95 208 41 901 20.0% 90 41 95 118 41 860 Seamless hot-rolled steel tubes 114 376 91 144 43.4% 11 699 10 259 102 677 80 885 Precision seamless steel tubes 50 580 72 796 34.7% 4 954 8 107 45 626 64 689 Buttwelding elbows and reducers 2 264 3 893 1.9% 81 161 2 183 3 732 Company store (1) 255 288 0.1% 255 288 0 0 Total 262 683 210 022 100% 17 079 18 856 245 604 191 166 (1) Retail of seamless and welded tubes and butt welding elbows. In 2015, recertification audits according to ISO 9001:2008 and ISO TS 16949:2009 and a supervision audit according to ISO 9001:2000 – VDA 6.1:98 were performed as part of the quality management system at Železiarne Podbrezová a.s. All audits were successful and we retained certificates indicating that the production processes are verified and in compliance with the requirements specified in the rel - evant standards. We also successfully passed the environ - mental management system recertification according to ISO 14001:2004 and the supervision audit of the work safety management system according to OHSAS 18001. 14 Report by the Board of Directors on Business Activities, Assets, and Financial Performance in 2015 and Information on the Business Plan