UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. A repair and maintenance depot for foreign-made containers at UEKHK (a member enterprise of Rosatom’s TVEL) got the first batch of 30B containers used for transportation of enriched plutonium to international customers certified, the company press service reports. The certification process involved all the necessary procedures such as hydrostatic testing of containers for strength and airtightness, pneumatic testing, non-destructive tests, inspection of all the joints and connections, and everything else that the depot could do on its own. The containers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Siemens and Sinara Group’s joint venture Ural Locomotives introduced new technological solutions at their rolling stock dispatcher unit on October 1, 2016. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the unit has been around for five years now, and dispatchers operate 24/7 to track all the locomotives and Lastochka electric trains currently used by Russian Railways. ‘Now, thanks to UL Service, our custom-made, unique information system, the dispatchers can obtain updated diagnostic data on every bit and system of a loco or train and react promptly to any

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Russian Copper Company is going to put up a modern, multifunctional sports facility for adults and children in Karabash, Sverdlovsk Region, the company press service reports. The facility will be located between Sinegorye Health Resort and the St. John Chrysostom Church in Karabash. The site is currently being prepared for the construction jobs: workers are busy cutting down trees and removing tree stumps, preparing the engineering infrastructure, putting up fences, and clearing space for layout. The developer is also working on getting the construction

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Gazprom Chair of the Board Alexei Miller and Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) shareholder and Member of the BOD Andrei Komarov signed a roadmap on a project for making new-generation pipes. According to ChTPZ Group’s press service, the paper was signed at the 6th Saint Petersburg International Gas Forum the other day. Under the terms of the document, the plant is going to develop for Gazprom a number of technological solutions for making longitudinal welded large-diameter pipes from the regular as well as highly durable X80-X120 steels and pipeline

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s and Alfa-Bank’s representatives reached a settlement on their arbitration proceedings involving the corporation’s daughter enterprises ChTZ-Uraltrac and Uraltransmash; as it happens, the corporation itself borrowed no money from the bank. According to the corporation’s press service, the settlements were reached in Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court and Moscow Arbitration Court on September 28 and September 30, 2016, respectively. Ural Vagon Zavod will be paying off its daughter enterprises’ debt