UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 22, 2016. A new horizontal honing machine got launched at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Plant 9, the company press service reports. The mill is meant for high-precision treatment of rotary components’ internal cylinders and is expected to improve the produce quality considerably. ‘The new machine replaced the older foreign mills that have been around for a few decades now and grown obsolete. These older units were mostly mechanical, while this one is numerically controlled. Our mill operators, technicians, and Technocenter engineers underwent special training

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 22, 2016. Heads of Chelyabinsk Region Government’s economy-related ministries and departments and local businessmen and women met at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) to talk about their problems, the corporation’s press service reports. Deputy Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Ruslan Gattarov opened the meeting with his report on the new business support mechanisms in the area. He said applications could now be submitted for a new, important, and interesting project coordinated by Governor Boris Dubrovsky. Head of Traktorozavodsky

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 22, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) got audited by Norway’s DNV GL for the first time this year and was issued a quality certificate for its shipbuilding pipes that is valid through 2020, the Group’s press service reports. The audit procedure consisted in several stages: first, PNTZ had to prove it could make goods that meet DNV GL standards; the produce was then thoroughly tested, and then a report on the pipe-production technology was submitted to the certification body’s head office. DNV GL experts checked whether the plant had all the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 22, 2016. Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District is going to host Good Neighbors Festival on Town Day, with a show by Uma2rman as the event’s key feature, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. In addition to the main stage where the show will be performed, two more stages will be put up, an education program-hosting one and the one for children. Besides, a job fair will be organized for the visitors. The venues open at noon, the entrance is absolutely free. Coffee Fest is another special part of the festival where everyone can try different kinds of coffee

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 22, 2016. An extraordinary heat wave caused air conditioner and fan sales to go up nine times on Yekaterinburg market in July and August compared with last summer, the electronic goods store M.Video informs UrBC. ‘These two months’s unbelievable temperature resulted in an unprecedented increase in air conditioner, split system, and fan sales in Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region: the number of units sold in July and August rose by 900% against one year earlier,’ the store representative explains. The weather in Yekaterinburg has indeed been very unusually hot this