RENOVA Group intends to get involved in the construction of electric power-generating facilities. For one, the company plans to launch Novobogoslovskaya power station in Krasnoturinsk, Sverdlovsk Region, in 2014, to launch another power station in Nizhnyaya Tura, Sverdlovsk Region, in 2015, and to launch yet another station in Yekaterinburg’s Academic district in 2017. The implementation of the project will require about 43bn RUR, the company’s BOD Chairman Viktor Vekselberg announced during a business trip to Yekaterinburg. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin and Viktor

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant’s Vysota 239 department has been certified in accordance with the international standard DNV recently. The certification procedures were first started by Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant in the fall of 2010 and were completed in less than a year. In fact, no other Russian company has managed to get the DNV certificate over such a short period before. The representatives of Det Norske Veritas certified the pipe production at Vysota 239, that is, the production of pipes with the diameter of 1,020 mm and wall thickness of 21.3 mm (strength 485 FD). The certificate

Magnum 8, a strong drinks supermarket based in Yekaterinbrug, was placed on the list of companies which owe over 1 million RUR to the Russian Federation budget. These data are available via Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service. The list of debtors is valid as of June 15, 2011.

The stockholders of Kyshtym Ore Mining & Processing Plant decided not to declare any dividends for the year 2010. This decision was taken at the annual general meeting in Kyshtym, Sverdlovsk Region. Last year’s profits, which amounted to 214,000 RUR, will be directed to increasing the joint stock company’s own funds.

Ural Airlines keeps renovating its fleet of vehicles. An Airbus A320 fit for 156 passengers arrived in Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg last Saturday and set off for its first Yekaterinburg-Moscow flight at once. The plane will from now on be used for the summer flights. Now that one more A320 was added to the air carrier’s fleet, the company runs eighteen Airbus planes altogether (thirteen A320 makes and five A321 models). The new aircraft is the fourth one Ural Airlines has bought in the year 2011, the carrier’s press service reports.