UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Plant 9 now has up-to-date ventilation equipment: welding sections at Department 27 got ten new filtering and ventilation units, the company press service reports. Every unit is essential, as these are installed next to a welder’s work area to trap gas and dust and to filter the air the mill operator is breathing. The filters provide the clean air that fully meets all the existing requirements. ‘This is a Russian-made equipment meant for specific welder’s work area that has already been zoned and protected in accordance with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company completed renovating of a processing plant at Kuznetskaya Processing Factory in Novokuznetsk, EVRAZ Siberia’s corporate relations department reports. The renovations resulted in improved coal concentrate quality and increased output (up to 60,000,000 kg a year). ‘In order to improve the coal concentrate quality, the entire processing routine had to be reorganized and a new deep-level processing section had to be added. A set of modern equipment — two hydro-clone units, spiral-coil separators, slurry centrifugal

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant delivered 865,000,000 kg of pipes to their customers in the first half of the year, the company press service reports. This is, in fact, 19%, or 206,000,000 kg less than one year earlier; the decrease has to do with declining demand for large-diameter pipes (one of the Group’s key product). This has been a trend typical of all the Russian manufacturers. The Group shipped 356,000,000 kg of welded pipes to their customers in January-June 2016, including 323,000,000 kg of LDPs. This

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering tickets for international flights operated from Moscow and Yekaterinburg at reduced prices. According to the air carrier’s press service, Russian travelers will be able to book their flights at a 20%. provided these flights are operated between September 1 and October 25 and between November 12 and December 15, 2016. Tickets can be booked at the company website, over the mobile app, or over the phone.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2016. The share of Sverdlovsk Region-based loss-making businesses rose from 32% to 35% of all companies in the area in January-May 2016 against the start of the year, Rosstat research findings indicate. In Ural Federal District on average, the figure rose from 31% to 35%. Things look their bleakest in Kurgan Region and Chelyabinsk Region, where the figures went up from 35% to 44% and from 30% to 38%, respectively.