UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2016. Students and trainers on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program are going to present their company and Chelyabinsk Region in the final round of the 4th WorldSkills Russia Championship, the company press service reports. The championship will be held at Krokus Expo in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, on May 23-27. ChTPZ Group’s team (already many-time winners of earlier WorldSkills contests) will compete in five different categories: Alexander Pauls and Ilya Ivanov in Mechatronics, Dmitri Shmarlovsky in NC Turning, Maxim Soloviev in NC

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s youth group and the long-service employees’ council planted a tree alley in Nizhiy Tagil in celebration of the plant’s 80th anniversary. Some eighty people planted 120 trees, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘We chose a pedestrian area between a shopping mall and a the new company clinic next to the war memorial. People working at the head plant have been improving the territory for quite a few years now, with clean-up days every spring,’ the press service says. A clean-up day was also coordinated before

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2016. EVRAZ NTMK completed the construction of its vanadium slag grinding facility, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. The project required some 200m RUR in terms of investments and took nine months to build; it now consists of forty-two equipment units located within the plant’s casting department; the site is now under start-up and commissioning. The new grinding facility will be producing metal content-free vanadium slag (grain size under 50mm) and ground slag (grain size under 0.2mm). The company used to make slag with grain size as big as 200mm; now

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2016. Yurga Machine-Building Plant (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) keeps making support units for SUEK, a major Russian coal producer, the company press service reports. A set of thirty new units was made in April alone, to complement the ten units that were delivered to Uvalnaya Mine in March. The equipment gets made and handed over to customer in strict compliance with the production and delivery schedule. Prior to next delivery, a set of eighteen support units, a part of a conveyor line, a pan line, and a Polis-made KSW-460NE combined

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2016. Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) hired sixty-six new workers under thirty-five last year, the company press service reports. The newcomers were invited to a special solemn ceremony recently, with Director-General Anatoly Barabanov welcoming the new employees to the plant and telling them about the company’s production priorities and short- and long-term plans. He also spoke about what production sections need a fresh start, a creative approach, and some out-of-the-box solutions that the younger