Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Metalloinvest Company intend to expand on their cooperation within the next three years. The parties agreed to have more flat stock shipments from Metalloinvest’s Ural Steel to Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant. Metalloinvest will become one of the main suppliers of flat stock meant for the production of pipes that will be used in the main connecting Purovsky condensate processing plant and Tobolsk Neftekhim (the project is currently implemented by SIBUR). Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant signed a three-year contract with SIBUR for the delivery of 170,000 tons of

Ural Airlines is launching a unique cockpit simulator center in order to train its pilots, the company’s press service reports. The most advanced cockpit simulator to date was purchased in the Netherlands. The unit was made specially for Ural Airlines by one of the world’s major manufacturers SIM Industries, which joined Lockheed Martin recently. The equipment cost ?7.5m. The new flight simulator center will allow the company to enhance the efficiency of its flights. What is more, pilots will be able to train as much as they need, while training in Europe is always limited in time: a standard

UTair Airlines’ Boeing 737 had to perform an emergency landing in Yekaterinburg because of the right engine failure, the press service for Ural Investigative Administration for Transportation of Russia’s Investigative Committee told reporters. UTair Aviation Company’s press officer confirms this information is accurate. ‘The sensors indicated the engine was unstable. A landing was performed at Koltsovo Airport to look into the causes of the problem. There were ninety-one passengers and seven crew members on board. The landing went through smoothly,’ the airline says.

The losses incurred by Sredneuralsky Copper Smelting Plant (SUMZ) in the financial year 2011 came to 207.75m RUR. These data were announced in the course of the recent annual general meeting. It was decided that the losses should be made up for by using the future profits; it was also decided not to pay any share dividend for the year 2011.

Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Yakob met Mayor of Kostanay (the Republic of Kazakhstan) Gauez Nurmukhambetov. The officials from the near abroad arrived in Yekaterinburg to look into the city’s experience in the field of housing construction. The Kostanay delegation also comprised head of Kostanay Region Architecture & City Planning Administration Sara Umarova, head of Kostanay Council Construction Department Raikhan Urdabayeva, and some representatives of the building industry. Nurmukhambetov said Yekaterinburg proved an impressively developing city, which included the housing field.