June 4, 2014. The employees of ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) received a letter from a machine operator named Jan Hoffman, who lives in Amtsberg, a municipality in Saxony. In this letter, he spoke about how his relationship with the company's dealer F.K.M. Praga was progressing, the corporation's press service says. According to Hoffman, he came to the Czech capital together with his friend, a T-130 tractor owner, to meet the head of the dealer company Gennady Fedchun. The visitors picked up some pre-ordered pare parts there. Jan's friend

June 4, 2014. KBTM (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) got a compliance certificate for its coupler casting. This means the company is now expanding the range of products it makes for Russian Railways, the corporation's press service reports. 'The coupler is an automated hookup mechanism that hitches railway carriages together without (or almost without) human involvement. It is most often used for railway carriages and locos. The coupler casting is meant for sending the draft force impulse onto the draft mechanism and for placing inside the casting a mechanism for

June 4, 2014. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) shipped a 2,000,000 kg-plus set of line pipes with strength grade X60 made at Volzhsky Pipe Plant to a major international oil and gas company Saudi Aramco, the company's press service reports. 'Prior to sending off the order, the goods underwent an inspection audit at VTZ which was conducted by Aramco Overseas Cоmpanу and TVD experts; these specialists represented Saudi Aramco's interests and looked closely into the technological process and the technical requirements set out for the order and the quality of the goods and

June 4, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation member enterprises embarked upon their summer health campaign for the children of their employees, the corporation's press service says. 'Thousands of children from Nizhniy Tagil, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Yekaterinburg, Yurga and other towns and cities where the corporation operates are going to spend some time in the summer camps and Russian health resorts,' the press service reports. As for the company's head plant, 20 mothers with motion impaired children will go to Mitino, a health resort in Kirov Region. 'The employees'

June 4, 2014. Ural Airlines introduced an additional flight for the popular summertime destination: from Nizhniy Novgorod to Simferopol, the company's press service reports. Starting from June 17, 2014, the flight to the coast of the Black Sea will be operated not only on Sundays but on Tuesdays as well. 'The Crimea peninsula is a favorite vacation place for Russian travelers that makes you fall in love with it at first sight! This spot has everything a holiday maker longing for an unforgettable vacation needs: fresh air, the seaside, intact nature, medieval and ancient artifacts,

June 4, 2014. Making its new facilities pay off, all-round improvements in efficiency, and more focus on specific consumers remain Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ (MMK) key strategic priorities, the company’s Business Development & Efficiency Management Director Maxim Lapin said at the 22nd metallurgical summit that was held in Moscow under the auspices of Russian Steel Non-Commercial Partnership. Lapin believes that de-commoditization, that is, switching from supplying the market with non-specific, mass market goods (ingots, slabs, fittings, hot-rolled rolls, and standard-size