April 23, 2014. ChTPZ Group's Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant delivered 410,300,000 kg of steel pipes to consumers in the first quarter of 2014, which was 8% more than a year earlier (381,600,000 kg). According to ChTPZ press service, pipe plants shipped 238,300,000 kg of weldless pipes to consumers in January-March 2014, which was 1% more than the 236,000,000 kg delivered a year earlier. The company sold 172,000 welded pipes to consumers, which was 15% more than in the first three months of 2013 (146,000,000 kg). The increase has to do with bigger

April 23, 2014. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) used 18 different vehicles to have a clean-up day in Pervouralsk: loaders, KAMAz trucks, and multi-purpose road maintenance vehicles, the company's press service says. To make Pervouralsk look nice and clean, the plant bought the necessary appliances such as brooms, spades, whitewash for the trees, buckets, paint rolls, and 26,000 trash bags. The clean-up day's slogan was, 'Pervouralsk. White. Clean. Mine.' 'We cleaned up 32 hectares of municipal quarters last year, whitewashed 1,170 trees, and took over 2,000 m3 of

April 23, 2014. An awarding ceremony completed the Innovation Nizhniy Novgorod 2013 contest, and Burevestnik, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation, won in the IT Innovation category, the corporation's press service says. 'The contestants presented their videos on innovative projects to the jurors; the videos were accompanied by some comments on the economic and technical parameters of the innovation: the idea, the savings effect, the implementation stage, and the scale of the innovation, that is, whether it is local, national, or world-wide,' the press release

April 23, 2014. An up-to-date Italian concrete plant Piccini, owned by UBT-Service (a daughter company of Uralvagonzavod Corporation), now operates in Nizhniy Tagil. According to the corporation's press service, the maximum capacity of the new facility is estimated at 50 m3 an hour. 'The launch of the new concrete plant is expected fully to cover Nizhniy Tagil and the corporation's demand for readily available good quality concrete that is currently under-supplied because of a greater amount of building jobs going on,' the message says. This is actually the second plant

April 23, 2014. Consumer prices of goods and services rose by 2.2% in March 2014 compared with December 2013. In March 2013, the figure was actually 0.2% lower than in December 2012, Sverdlovskstat reports. Food items grew 4% more expensive, including a 3.9% increase in food prices and a 5.1% increase in the price of strong drinks. The prices of fruit and vegetables increased by 17.8%, including a 46.2% increase in the price of potatoes, a 28% increase in the price of vegetables, and a 9.6% increase in the price of fruit and citrus fruits. The price of cabbage rose the most (it actually