However, since 1999, IMK has lost its market share, and now primarily serves the domestic market.
The company’s manufacturing plant produces welded spiral pipes in sizes up to 80in diameter, and 3-14mm wall thickness. The capacity of the spirally-welded manufacturing plant in 1980 was about 50,000t/yr; this was increased to 150,000t/yr in 1981 with the introduction of a longitudinally-welded manufacturing process.
The Kosovo Trust Agency, which his under United Nations Mission to Kosovo (UNMIK) jurisdiction, privatises enterprises in the country through asset spin-off and liquidation. This process began in June, 1999, when the UN’s ‘interim mission’ in Kosovo was established.