December 16, 2014. Ural Locomotives (a member enterprise of Sinara Group) completed all the rounds of tests for Lastochka trains, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. Governor Evgeniy Kuivashev paid a visit to the enterprise’s production premises on December 15 and was present when an interdepartmental committee signed the acceptance act (which means Lastochka can now be produced for Russian Railways). The acceptance act was signed by Russian Railways Senior Vice President Valentin Gapanovitch and Ural Locomotives Director-General Alexander Saltayev. ‘An

December 16, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation saved around 60m RUR thanks to introduction of lean production principles in nine months of 2014. According to the corporation’s press service, twelve of its member enterprises switched to lean manufacturing all in all. It all began in May 2013 when one of Moscow’s Corporate Governance Center’s subdivisions started coordinating and monitoring the launch of the principles within the corporation. Lean production is now practiced at Uralcryomash, Uraltransmash, Plant 9, OmskTransMash, Burevestnik Research Institute, TETZ, Kamensk Uralsky Foundry

December 16, 2014. Russian Copper Company Group won in the Urals & Siberia’s Achievements 2014 Contest as the Investment Project of the Year for implementation of two major investment projects: Mikheyevsky and Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprises (both based in Chelyabinsk Region), the Group reports. The two projects required about 60bn RUR worth of investments. The launch of the processing enterprises will ensure the company’s raw resource independence for at least thirty years to come; important for the company that is known as one of Ural Federal District’s major taxpayers

December 16, 2014. Governor of Kaluga Region Anatoly Artamonov and Sinara Transport Machines Director-General Evgeniy Gritsenko signed a socioeconomic cooperation agreement. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the document was also signed by Kaluga’s First Deputy Mayor Konstantin Gorobtsov and Mayor of Lyudinovo Daniil Aganitchev. ‘The ceremony took place at Kaluga Philharmonic Concert hall during the solemn celebration of Kaluga Track Machines & Fluid Drive Plant’s 140th anniversary (Kalugaputmash is a member enterprise of Sinara Transport Machines Holding), the press service

December 16, 2014. A delegation of Tatarstan’s officials, headed by Education & Science Minister Engel Fattakhov, paid a visit to ChTPZ Group’s Training Center, the enterprise’s press service reports. The delegates took part in a conference on public-private partnership in the field of training highly skilled industrial workers through dual education principles. The conference was also attended by ChTPZ Group’s Organizational Development Director Tatiana Kozhevnikova, ChTPZ Group’s Training Center’s head Nikolai Desyatov, Tatarstan’s Education & Science Ministry’s Vocational Education