JSC «Severskiy Granitny Karier» is in the process of strategy decision making. Recently there has been the rearrangement of the share capital. At the moment of factory transference the former owners had provided the main technological process and initiation of production. Now in the plans of new shareholders is continuing of a large-scale modernization, the second processing chain introduction and the field Severskoe-2 elaboration. According to a source closed to the JSC «Severskiy Granitny Karier» managing company, a tender for the supply of crushing and sorting complex to organize the

December 14, 2012. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) will soon deliver a customized B-12 bulldozer to the border patrol division of Russia’s Federal Security Service, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Specially for the border patrol officers, the bulldozer was fitted with wider-than-usual caterpillar wheels. The tractor with a trident-shaped ripper will be shipped to one of the divisions on the Northern Caucasus and will be used for fortifying the border and the posts. The Chelyabinsk tractor manufactures have already supplied their khaki colored vehicles to the border patrol

December 14, 2012. The 1,000-ton-strong machine is meant for cutting bar sections and can produce between 600 and 800 ingots with the diameter range 80-170mm per shift. The new shearing press cost about 12m RUR; it was manufactured by the German firm Erfurt, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The foundry shop is already using a few shearing presses produced by the same company. The 315-to 1,000-ton ones have been ‘the weakest link’ so far, as they were made in the 70s and the 80s, grew totally obsolete, and needed repairing almost every week. Quite often, workers had to

December 14, 2012. The rating agency Expert RA came up with the 17th rating of Russian federal constituencies’ investment appeal for 2011-2012. Moscow Region, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar Territory, and Tatarstan kept their top positions in the rating and their levels of A12. These constituencies have some of the highest potential indices and some of the lowest risk level figures, the agency reports. ‘The rating is indicative of the takeoff of the third wave of the constituencies’ investment appeal growth, which is characterized by three parameters: proximity to economic centers,

December 14, 2012. The employees of Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ), a member enterprise of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), took part in a charity event and donated their blood to children who are currently undergoing treatment in Yekaterinburg Children’s Oncologic Center, the company’s press service reports. The event was coordinated by the plant’s Youth Council. STZ workers – both long-time donors and first-timers – donated their blood at the Center’s blood transfusion unit. This blood is literally vital for the seriously ill kids. In fact, blood donation is already a tradition at STZ. In

December 14, 2012. There are quite enough Class A business centers in Yekaterinburg at the moment, as their share of the market is only expected to come to 7% to 10%, RED Management Company Deputy DG Andrei Braude says. ‘We are running out of the suitable construction sites downtown, and no new ones will appear unless something extraordinary happens, as is the case in Moscow, for example, when one quarter gets pulled down completely and a new one is put up in its place,’ Braude said. ‘We’ve got enough Class A office buildings in the city. They should only constitute no more than 7% to 10% of