UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 14, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was recently featured in the WWF Russia rating as one of the country’s best companies, MMK Information & PR Department reports.

The rating gets coordinated by the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and the Russian representation of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP); this year’s one got completed by the National Rating Agency based on the companies’ publicly available data such as annual reports, presentations, media footprint, and company websites.

The final rating was based on three crucial criteria: a company’s environmental management; environmental impact; and information transparency. MMK is one of the several companies assigned the No.1 position in Environmental Impact category for Russia’s mining and metallurgical enterprises.

The rating offers an insight into the mining and metallurgical companies’ environmental responsibility, their environmental impact, and the change dynamic this given sector. This year, some forty major mining and metallurgical businesses operating in Russia submitted their data for the rating.