Asbest branch of JSC «SeverskiyGranitnyKarier», recreated in 2005 at the place of Asbest stone crushing plant has just been hit on the investorsfocus again. The plant, a manufacturer of crushed stone and sand and gravel mixtures of high quality, historically had geography of deliveries from Moscow to Omsk and periodically experienced both rapid growth and hard times. At this point, we can say about the resumption of funding and productionrestart. Multi-million dollar investment in technological upgrading, namely the acquisition of crushing and screening plant and all necessary for the

May 29, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant drew up a list of its investment priorities. This year, the company intends to direct 11.4bn RUR to the development of Uralvagonzavod, the corporation’s press service reports. Uralvagonzavod is currently implementing over 35 different projects and programs, and about 15 are being elaborated at the moment. Last year, the Nizhniy Tagil-based plant’s development budget amounted to nearly 4.5bn RUR, which is about 20% more than the record-setting figure for 2011 – 3.7bn RUR. The better part of this money (3.9bn RUR)

May 29, 2013. A high-precision Zeiss check station will be installed at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant’s cutting-edge technologies production site, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports (ChTZ is a member of the corporation). It is reported that this modern piece of equipment was produced in Germany at the famous Zeiss enterprise that is well-known for the great quality of the tools it makes. The measuring accuracy of the machine is estimated at 3.7 microns: no other check tool that the plant’s metrologists are using at the moment is as precise as that.

May 29, 2013. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is mastering the production of new goods for the major oil and gas projects, MMK Domestic Sales Director Nikolai Anashkov said at the 3d All-Russian conference on the production and sales of steel pipes in 2013 in Volzhskiy. The company representative made a report on the current rolled metal goods market situation and spoke about MMK’s new offers for the pipe industry. According to Anashkov, given the current market situation, metallurgical enterprises should build up on their cooperation with the pipe manufacturers and master new kinds

May 29, 2013. Komsomolskaya Pravda carried a report on the findings of a research carried out by the Economic News Agency on the PR activity of the Russian business community in the first quarter of 2013. BOD Chairman of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Viktor Rashnikov was given the 18th position in the rating of Russia’s leading PR personalities. In fact, the Agency also carried out another research that was focused on how accurately and conscientiously businesses and banks inform the public of their activity. This is the responsibility of their PR Departments, so the rating of

May 29, 2013. The 14th coordination meeting of ChTPZ Group and OAO Severstal took place at Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant recently. The two parties, working within the framework of their existing cooperation agreement, agreed on the prospects of joined participation in a number of construction and oil and gas projects, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. The parties also agreed to work together on a cross-functional project known as Setting up the Delivery Process Control System; the launch of this system is believed to reduce the amount of time it takes to ship the goods from metallurgical

May 29, 2013. Mayor of Yekaterinburg and Chairman of Yekaterinburg Duma Evgeny Porunov and Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob met a group of delegates from Zhongshan on Monday, May 27. The foreign party was represented by Deputy Secretary-General of the People’s Government of Zhongshan, Deputy Director-General of the city’s International Relations Bureau, President of Zhongshan Institute for Economic Research, and a number of other officials. In his welcoming speech, Evgeny Porunov said he was very glad to see a delegation from China and the officials who came to Yekaterinburg as