June 20, 2013. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member of Uralvagonzavod Corporation), fulfilled its contract for the delivery of 10 B10M bulldozers to the oil and gas companies in Bashkiria, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Bashneft is now using a vast fleet of road construction vehicles and upgrades it on a regular basis, so ChTZ local representative Vigma that promotes the plant’s produce in Bashkiria won the tender for the new vehicles. The bulldozers were directed to Bashneft Technological Transport Division in Oktyabrsky; from there, the vehicles will be transferred

June 20, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation and Railway Carriage Repair Company signed a contract for the delivery of TMV-2, a multi-purpose vehicle, to the latter. The Corporation’s press service reports that the document was signed by the holding’s Deputy DG for Railway Vehicles Andrei Shlensky and Head of Railway Carriage Repair Company’s Management Company Evgeny Podalinsky. Under the terms of the contract, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation is to deliver one TMV-2 to the customer’s subsidiary in Khilok, Zabaikalye Territory, before mid-July,

June 20, 2013. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works DG Boris Dubrovsky’s decree introduced an environmental protection investment program for 2013-2015, the company reports. The main idea behind the program is to facilitate the implementation of MMK’s environmental policy, improve the enterprise’s environmental management system, facilitate meeting the environmental legislation requirements, and ensure environmental safety. Some of MMK’s major environmental investment projects in the next two years have to do with the company’s sintering plant. For one, a number of sulfur-trapping units will

June 20, 2013. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) presented its estimate of the long-term metallurgical goods market’s development at the International Metallurgical Summit on Russian Steel and the Global Market: A Look into the Future that took place in Moscow this week. Up to 2020, the world’s metallurgical industry will mainly be affected by the volatility of the global economy and the booming growth of the developing countries. This is particularly true of Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, North Africa, and some Latin American countries, MMK Business Development &

June 20, 2013. On June 20, 2013, the new internal coating department will be launched at TMK NGS-Nizhnevartovsk (earlier known as UpoRT) in the course of a solemn opening ceremony, TMK press service reports. Governor of Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, Nizhnevartovsk Council officials, and representatives of the region’s leading oil producers have been invited to attend the opening. TMK NGS-Nizhnevartovsk has therefore implemented its investment project on creating an internal coating department for pipes with the diameter of 73-168mm. The reconstruction of the casing tubing section