The drying facility of Mundybashskiy subsidiary of Evrazruda (ore maker and part of Evraz Group) has recently been repaired in order to make sure everything is going to function smoothly in winter. This included repairing the concentrate sorting belts and parts of the drying drums and checkups of electric drives, reductors, smoke suckers, and gas-cleaning systems of fireboxes. Everything was completed by the company’s employees. This week, the technicians have looked at the was the drums operate in a non-load mode and tested the alignment of the smoke sucker drives. The drying facility is

Federal Antimonopoly Service in Sverdlovsk Region found violations in advertising of 21st century Tobacco. The company’s billboards were located within less than is legal of a children’s hospital and a secondary school. The suit against Saturn EK, the company that was distributing the advertisements of the tobacco producer, was put off since the defendant was represented by someone without the procuration needed for the case.

‘The breakdown at the main station of the works occurred at 2.30 AM on October 4, 2006; it was caused by tube-rolling shop # 8 catching fire and damaging the equipment of the station that provides power and electricity for the works. The fire was only put out at 5.45 AM, which resulted in the better part of the departments left without electricity. The supply was partly restored by the beginning of the working day, and all the departments got back on track by 4 PM, except for shop # 8 (it will have to be given overhaul),’ the company’s spokesperson Janna Olkhovikova said to UrBC

A filling facility is being put up at Tashtagolskiy subsidiary of Evrazruda; this is part of the long-term development program of Evraz Group. Once the construction has been completed, the facility will make it possible to start dealing with the iron ore currently inaccessible as it is located under the production site of the mine and the River Kondoma. The workers have already fortified the foundation on the main building of the facility in compliance with the seismic resistance requirements and are now assembling the frame of the building meant for two ball crushers; these ball crushers

TMK, Russia’s largest and one of the world’s leading tube producers, announced that is was going to do a public offering of Global Depositary Receipts and ordinary shares. The company is thinking of offering them at London Stock Exchange and RTS (Russian Trade System). The shares will be offered by TMK Steel Limited, the majority shareholder. This offering is to be approved by all the corresponding bodes, including the registration and approval of the Federal Financial Markets Service and UK Financial Services Authority. Credit Suisse, Dresdner Kleinwort and Renessans Capital are going to

The company produced 2,116,500 tons of coal in January-September 2006, which falls short of the figures for January-September 2005 by 16.5%. This includes 686,100 tons of coal extracted at Kapitalnaya mine and 151,500 tons coming from Komsomolskaya mine. The daylighting operations resulted in 3,787,000 cubic meters of coal (which amounts to 64.1% of the figures for January-September 2005). The company’s miners developed 5,584 meters (70.5% of the figures for the year earlier), the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative.

Compliance with the company’s Collective Agreement was assessed at the meeting of Magnesite Industrial Group (part of Magnesite Group) employees with the company’s management. Prior to the meeting, special sessions were held in the corporate departments; the sessions were devoted to the potential amendments to the agreement; an ad hoc committee agreed on a number of those. It was announced at the meeting that the employees complied with all the regulations very obediently in January-June 2006. This was, among other things, due to the regular investments in the production and social fields.

Ural Airlines have already serviced 1.7 times more transit passengers in the nine months of 2006 compared to January-September 2005. The company plans on performing flights to 19 destinations (including Dushanbe, Moscow, Yerevan, Nadym, Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk, Noviy Urengoi, Salekhard, Samara, Saint Petersburg, Mineralniye Vodi, Sochi, Tashkent, Hudzhant, Chita, Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, and Yakutsk) in the winter of 2006/2007. These flights provide for over 70 two-sided interfacings that offer the best conditions for a passenger to travel to the place they need with a connection

Ural Turbine Works (part of Renova Group) and ElSib Scientific Production Association of Novosibirsk declared their cooperation as being strategic in nature, which was confirmed in the corresponding agreement signed at the end of September. They will now be partners not only in the field of power engineering projects but also in more general spheres of business and scientific activity. ‘This mutually beneficial cooperation with the Siberian company will allow us to expand our sales of goods and services and master a higher level of performing on the power engineering industry market,’ says GD