Ural Chemical Company JSC allotted 500,000 bonds with a par value of 1,000 RUR each on the stock market; the total value of bonds comprised 500 million RUR. Bonds are offered publicly; the serial number is 4-02-31401-D of December 8, 2006.

Specialists of TroitskEnergoRemont CJSC, the power plant’s general contractor, started the overhaul of power-generating unit № 9 last week. The repairs are to include elimination of breeching leakage, replacement of armoring and beaters of hammer mills, and fixing the feed turbine pump 9A. Also, the defects of the electric filter and examination of № 5 low-pressure heater are to be paid attention to. All this is being done within the framework of the regular-basis overhauls, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative.

N.A. Semikhatov Scientific Production Association of Yekaterinburg (aka Automatica) is to host an instrument-making technological park meant for producing particularly sophisticated circuit boards. This has been made possible owing to the decision of Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Vladimir Molchanov, directors of regional instrument-making enterprises, and representatives of the defense industry. According to the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region Governor, a special committee of executives from the Ministry of Industry, Power Engineering and Science, defense enterprises, and

‘We are currently having nearly 30,000 square meters of production area and 500 square meters of offices rented, with the total area available for rent coming to 100,000 square meters (30,000 meters of warehouses and 10,000 meters of administrative buildings among them), Deputy GD of Stankomash JSC Vyacheslav Golub said to UrBC representative. ‘The plant now hosts furniture- and instrument- making enterprises, lumber dealers, food facilities, and companies dealing in blank metallurgical production and sales and purchases,’ Mr Golub said. According to Mr Golub, the issue of offering 35,000

Ural Chemical Company JSC allotted 500,000 bonds with a par value of 1,000 RUR each on the stock market; the total value of bonds comprised 500 million RUR. Bonds are offered publicly; the serial number is 4-02-31401-D of December 8, 2006.

The company produced 695,830,000 RUR worth of goods in the first two months of 2006, which is 24.6% more than a year earlier. 231 engineer vehicles with the total value of 400,901,000 RUR, 40 tractors, 2 pipelaying cranes, and 184 bulldozers were produced. The sales turnover came to 781,691,000 RUR (an increase of 31.2% compared to a year before); the sales included those of 224 engineering vehicles (444,306,000 RUR), tractor parts (266,061,000 RUR), the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative.

Standard & Poor’s announced the increase in the national scale long-term credit rating for Kalina Concern JSC (from ruBBB+ to ruА-) owing to the company’s stable business dynamics and the fairly low financial risks. ‘This increase reflects the company’s ability to build up their business activity and keep key positions in the core segments of the dynamic and competitive health and beauty products market. Besides, despite the quick growth, Kalina manages to improve its profitability indicators and maintain the financial risks at a fairly low level,’ said the credits analyst for Standard

Zlatoustovsky Metallurgichesky Zavod JSC (Metallurgical Works of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Region) is now a recognized supplier of electric vacuum-treated steel (specification B1-A) onto the North-American market. This information was reported in the beginning of March 2006 by Arwin Meritor Company. The latter is among the main US producers of heavy-duty trucks. Arwin Meritor is ready to buy 500 tonnes of rolled metal from Zlatoustovsky Metallurgichesky Zavod monthly. In 2005, Zlatoustovsky Metallurgichesky Zavod produced a pilot batch of axial billets made of AISI 1050 steel. The batch size was

‘A great number of our flights to various destinations are unprofitable, and they always have been. Today, people blame us for the absence of new aircrafts. This is a real problem for the bulk of Russian air-carriers, and, within the next few years, the situation will turn even worse due to the deficient domestic production of aircrafts and high import duties,’ the spokesperson for Ural Airlines PR-department said to UrBC representative. According to the PR-department of Ural Airlines, the company has successfully abided by its existing aircraft fleet up to now. It was quite enough to provide

Director of German Weinig Gruppe Alois Eismannberger visited the annual Weinig NIS representatives meeting in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Region. It’s the first time this meeting takes place in the Ural capital. ‘Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government and Minister for Industry, Power Engineering and Science Vladimir Molchanov met Mr Eismannberger on March 9, 2006 to discuss the prospects of introducing high-level timber processing technologies in the Ural works,’ reports the spokesperson for the Ministry. ‘Weinig Gruppe set up its Sverdlovsk Region subsidiary in 1995, and Weinig Ural