February 6, 2015. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) supplied over 2,780,000,000 kg of metal goods to pipe manufacturing enterprises last year, which was the all-time high in the company’s post-Soviet era history, MMK reports. In 2013, 2,240,000,000 kg of goods were sold and delivered to pipe-making plants. In 2014, the figure rose by 24.3%, making up for 33.2% of MMK’s home market sales (compared with 29% a year earlier). MMK has always been one of the leading metal goods suppliers for the Russian pipe manufacturers. The company’s production options expanded considerably when the

February 6, 2015. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) supplied over 2,780,000,000 kg of metal goods to pipe manufacturing enterprises last year, which was the all-time high in the company’s post-Soviet era history, MMK reports. In 2013, 2,240,000,000 kg of goods were sold and delivered to pipe-making plants. In 2014, the figure rose by 24.3%, making up for 33.2% of MMK’s home market sales (compared with 29% a year earlier). MMK has always been one of the leading metal goods suppliers for the Russian pipe manufacturers. The company’s production options expanded considerably when the

February 6, 2015. Magnitogorsk-based MMK METIZ added new types of PSC strands to its range of products: the plant mastered the production of these last year, the company reports. A sample batch of 12.5mm PSC strands (1,860 N/mm2 or 190 kgf/mm2) was manufactured in accordance with the EN 10138-3 standard. Additionally, the plant also made samples of 15.2mm strands in accordance with GOST 53772-2010 from corrugated wire (min rupture strength 1,860 N/mm2). Besides, a sample batch of 43mm and 46.5mm strands was made for Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works furnace department in accordance with the

February 6, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region Government set up an ad hoc work team to consider ways in which Lastochka, an electric train designed and produced by Ural Locomotives (a member enterprise of Sinara Group), could be used at Sverdlovsk Railways, the government’s website states. Sinara Group and Sverdlovsk Railways management are now calculating the financial scheme of the service, looking into possible routes, and deciding upon the necessary number of trains and their schedule. The most popular destinations are considered first, including the most heavily used one, from Yekaterinburg to

February 6, 2015. Yekaterinburg Patra Brewery (a member enterprise of Heineken Russia) might have to stop producing non-alcoholic beverages in case the Unified State Automated Information System gets introduced to the brewery industry, Heineken Russia’s Corporate Relations Director Kirill Bolmatov told UrBC. ‘The way this system is described in the legislation means a company isn’t allowed to make alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks at the same time. Quite a few breweries produce mineral water, kvass, and lemonade as well as beer, this is a widespread case in Russia. In case the system gets

February 6, 2015. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ, a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) is going to deliver support wire along with other products for the nuclear sector. PNTZ is actually the Russian nuclear industry’s key wire supplier, the company’s press service says. The order was placed for 1.05mm round wire, 0.6x1.3mm oviform wire, and 0.85mm wire for the future-generation reactors. The new alloy, EK 164, which the wire is made of, is resistant to radioactive impact, which means it can be used longer. Nuclear companies buy PNTZ produce on a regular basis, for example, its longitudinal

February 6, 2015. Two experimental armored vehicles developed at ChTZ (Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant) design office in the sixties and in the eighties were handed over to Uralvagonzavod. The unique BMP 1 (Object 765) and BMPT (Object 781) will serve as exhibits for Tankprom Museum, which is to open in Nizhniy Tagil in 2020. According to Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service, BMP 1, designed at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in 1966, was produced on a serial scale. ‘Thanks to the machine’s new firing options, infantry troops could be converted into motorized rifle ones, who, together with the tank

February 6, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region’s consumer price index was 4.7% in January 2015 and up 15.3% compared with January 2014, Sverdlovskstat reports. Food items grew 6.7% more expensive (22.8% against January 2014), alcohol grew 0.9% more expensive (13.3% compared with a year earlier), and non-food items and services grew 3.6% (9.9%) and 4.5% (15.3%) more expensive, respectively.