According to the data available from the country’s ferrous metallurgical enterprises, the ferrous metal-based rolled stock output decreased by 43.2%, 30%, 21.3%, and 18.5% at Severstal (Cherepovets Iron & Steel Works), Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works, Novolipetsk Iron & Steel Works, and Mechel (Chelyabinsk Iron & Steel Works), respectively, in January-May 2009 compared with January-May 2008. This has been reported by Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Industry and Trade. At the same time, Russia’s steel pipe production output amounted to 2,368,000 tons, with all of the country’s

Uralvagonzavod Scientific and Production Enterprise keeps cutting back on civilian goods production: in January-May 2009, the output figures only amounted to 58% of the output reached a year earlier. Within these months, the enterprise manufactured 1,070 cisterns and had to stop producing any carriages in May 2009. This information is available from the report on the state of Russian industry and retail trade in January-May 2009 that has been drawn up by the Russian Federation Ministry for Industry and Trade.

The Russian Federation Ministry for Industry and Trade reports the country’s virgin aluminum production output keeps going down due to decreased demand and falling prices on both the home and foreign markets. The production outputs dropped the lowest at enterprises located in the Urals and the European part of Russia. According to the data available, UC RUSAL Bogoslovskiy smelter’s output dropped by 35.7% in January-May 2009 compared with January-May 2008; the output figures also decreased by 28.8%, 26.5%, 15%, 5.1%, and 17.3% at Nadvoitskiy smelter, Kandalakshskiy smelter, Volgograd smelter,

Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin visited Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) to look at the new LDP mill. The Governor was accompanied by the Soviet of the Federation member Andrei Komarov, Deputy Governor Yuri Klepov, head of the regional employment center Leonid Shusharin, and Mayor of Chelyabinsk Mikhail Yurevitch. First, Sumin checked out an electric welding department that has received over $150m worth of investments over the last few years. For one, two anti-corrosion coating production lines have been launched there. The workers presented one of these lines to the Governor,