Svyaz-Bank’s Yekaterinburg subsidiary is going to offer Ural Rubber Goods Plant a credit line with the top limit of 150m RUR. According to the bank, the money will be offered for a period of two years so that the plant can get additional working assets. Now according to the latest data available, the plant owed about 20m RUR to its long-term debtors and over 700m RUR to the short-term ones by the first quarter of 2011.

Ural Airlines is now offering special prices on tickets from Chelyabinsk to destinations in Europe. Tickets to Munich, Prague, Milan, Rome, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Sofia, Paris, Istanbul and back are now available for only ?249 (plus the fees). The flights will be operated with a connection in Vienna with Ural Airlines’ interline partner Austrian Airlines.

The representatives of the Japanese metallurgical company Mitsui visited Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (a member of ChTPZ Group). The visit was mainly aimed at sharing the two parties’ experience in the field of kaizen practices – the philosophy of continuous improvement, the Group’s press service reports. The Pervouralsk Plant and the Mitsui representatives held a meeting on the kaizen launching technology and methods, they also visited the site of the Iron Ozone 32 electric steel-smelting facility and the finishing center for the OCTG production and processing. The finishing center, launched

RBC.Rating came up with a ranking of banks with the most extensive ATM network, and it appears that 79 banks out of 100 that took part in the rating have increased the number of their ATMs since the last rating was compiled. SKB-Bank was featured among the country’s top 25 banks in terms of the number of ATMs it runs and was given the 25th position. As of July 1, 2011, the bank ran 493 automatic teller machines in Russia. Throughout the year, SKB-Bank invested in both the installation of new ATMs and the replacement of the obsolete machines with the more updated versions.