The Yekaterinburg concern Kalina JSC announced its IFRS results for 2005: the company’s sales proceeds and net profit came to $288.1 million and $22.9 million, respectively (increases of 58.5% и 24.5% compared to 2004). These results include profits coming from Dr. Scheller Cosmetics AG that was bought by Kalina in the second half of 2005. EBITDA came to 40.5 million dollars (an increase iof 39.2%)

In February 2006, the company produced 500,702,000 RUR worth of goods, which exceeds the figures for January by 4.5%; the metal products output comprised 484,918,000 RUR. The works produced 39,932 tonnes of steel (an increase of 4% compared to January), 28,595 tonnes of rolled steel (.4% less than a month before). 27,234 tonnes of goods were shipped to consumers, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative.

Evrazruda JSC, part of Evraz Group and ore producer, has introduced the energy-saving project that is targeted at economizing on energy costs throughout the whole system of production. According to the company’s spokesperson, the project includes a few organizational and technical steps, for example, stricter disciplinary regulations on meeting overhaul deadlines in order to avoid energy wasting. Other steps consist in controlling the technological details, examination of the equipment aimed at looking into the possibilities of using fewer machines during the peak electricity consumption

On April 14, 2006, Metallurgical Works of Zlatoust will hold a press conference aimed at signing the Collective agreement for 2006-2007. The final changes to the agreement have been made at the last meeting of the conciliatory committee. The agreement, which regulates the relations between the management and the workforce, now says that the Veteran Board and the Women’s Committee will be receiveing more money, some perks will be offered to young employees; it also determined the lower wage limit. Provided that the company meets its financial and production goals as well as the quality

The furnace transformer has been replaced at the hydrometallurgical shop of Ufaleynickel JSC. The old one was dismantled, and the new one fitted with all the removable parts, examined and tested with and without electricity, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative.

Pervouralskiy Novotrubniy Zavod JSC, the tube maker, shipped 95,500 tonnes of tubes and pipes in January and February 2006 (which exceeds the figures for January and February 2005 by 4%), of which 54,700 tonnes were shipped in February (an increase of 3% against a year earlier). The company produced the total of 100,000 tonnes of goods within these two months, which is 4% more than a year earlier; of these, 53,500 tonnes were tubes and pipes, which is 2% less that a year before.

In 2005, Uraltrack shipped and exported over 1,014,000,000 RUR worth of produce, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative. The sales profits coming from civilian goods reached over 933 million RUR: 701 million came from goods exported to the NIS, 322 million from goods exported to other foreign countries, which exceeds the figures for 2005 by 68% and 25%, respectively. Over 750 million RUR worth of equipment was exported. 344 engineering machines were supplied abroad (an increase of 49.6%), of which 52 were DET bulldozers (13 new DET-320 ones). 7 DET-320 bulldozers and 16

CHTPZ Group signed a tube supplies agreement with Evraz Holding Ltd. valid until the end of 2006. According to the agreement, 90,000 tonnes of seamless pipes will be supplied by Evraz every three months; this is going to be a large part of all the pipes CHTPZ needs annually (about 1 million tonnes). The supplies will be delivered from the plants of Nizhniy Tagil and Novokusnetsk; CHTPZ will also cooperate with some other metallurgical companies and pipe suppliers such as Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Magnitogorsk and Ural Steel.