Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya JSC, tube and pipe producer, allotted their third issue of debenture bonds with the total face value of 5 billion RUR on February 21, 2006. The bonds were allotted via Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MMVB Stock Exchange) in the course of an open auction aimed at determining the interest rate coming from the first warrant. 130 investor applications were presented altogether, the total demand coming to 7,745.505 million RUR with first warrant interest rate ranging from 7.70% to 8.15% a year. Most applications fell into the 7.9% to 8.0% bids. The

Ural car factory has recently gone through an auditing procedure which took four days. The executives of Moscow-based InterCertifica-TUF, on behalf of German ТUV-CERT, the major certificating authority, examined the factory and stated that the company’s management system was in full compliance with the international norms ISO 9001 of the year 2000, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative.

Vanadium, the ore mining and processing enterprise of Kachkanar, has recently paid dividends for the nine months of 2005. According to the decision made at the extraordinary general meeting, the total value of dividends coming from the company’s shares amounted to 4,498,360,888.56 RUR, the dividends per share coming to 11.78 RUR. It was also decided that the dividends should be fully paid off before February20, 2006. The total value of the dividends actually paid came to 4,496,941,575.20 RUR, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative.

According to the date presented by Sverdlovsk Region Energy Committee, Makovskiy food enterprise Ltd. will raise meat prices by the average of 13% starting March 1, 2006. Tallinskaya smoked sausage, for example, will cost 134 RUR per kilo instead of the earlier 122 RUR, Krakovskaya kind will jump to 140 RUR from the previous 128 RUR, Lipetskaya variety will be sold at 116 RUR instead of 105 RUR, Doctorskaya boiled sausage will go up from 120 RUR to 135 RUR, Molochnaya variety will go up from 119 RUR to 134 RUR per kilo, Russkaya variety – from 120 to 135 RUR. As for the slightly more upmarket

Magnesite Industrial Complex (part of Magnesite Group Holding) is going to receive the new Swiss press rigging equipment in April 2006. The corresponding agreement was signed between the company’s hi-tech center and GALIKA AG of Switzerland. As Magnesite Group spokesperson said to UrBC representative, the project is going to cost 76 million RUR, covering the setting up of their own production line (to be completed in 2008) and its further maintenance. The first tangible results are expected to be seen early in 2007. The project’s economic sustainability is such that it may actually pay off

Okami Motors trade center sold 241 cars in January 2006, of which 154 were Hyundai ones and 87 – Mitsubishi models, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative. These sales figures indicate a decrease of 35.73% compared to December 2005. ‘The reasons for this are, most likely, the winter holidays and the traditional lapse in the buying activity until mid-January,’ the spokesperson explained. Hyundai Getz, Hyundai Tucson, Hyundai Accent, and Mitsubishi Lancer were in the greatest demand last month, with sales figures coming to 13.3%, 12%, 25.3% and 25.6% of the total sales turnover,

Ufaleynickel JSC, regional nickel maker, assembled and put into operation the new shifting chute to be used in the company’s Raw Processing and Furnace Charge Preparation Department, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative. The chute will help transfer ore from the Department to the melting workshop. Its particular handiness consists in providing the uninterrupted ore supply even when the main chute is under renovation or repair.

Chelyabinsk-Stroyindustriya Manufacturing Commercial Enterprise Ltd. (part of ChelSI) building materials producer of Chelyabinsk, produced 3.5 million tons of rock products in 2005. Thus, the enterprise produced 2.3 million tons of crushed stone, 1.1 million tons of macadam-sand mixture, 395,000 tons of asphalt, 40,000 cubic meters of concrete, 120,000 square meters of paving slabs, 100,000 square meters of curbing, 130,000 fencing units, 200,000 face wall bricks, 300,000 masonry units, 10 kilometers of gutter, reports ChelSI spokesperson.

‘We are going to resume production within the next few days’, Lyubov Slepukhina, Production Manager of Yuzhno-Uralsky Spirtovo-Vodochny Zavod Ltd. (vodka distillery of Southern Urals located in the town of Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Region) said to UrBC representative. In January 2006, Russian spirituous liquors producers, unable to acquire new federal excise duty stamps, had to suspense their operations. ‘At the moment, our vodka distillery is completing the bank guarantee for the new duty stamps. In addition, we are about to finish putting into operation the barcode equipment. So, regardless of