HomeMaterials for 20.10.2016
20 October 201613:16

Ural Vagon Zavod Makes Overloader for Uvalnaya Mine

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 20, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Yurginsky Machine-Building Plant is about to ship its overloader to Uvalnaya Mine; the equipment was made by order of Siberian Coal Company. The company press service reports they are also getting ready to deliver a conveyor to the same customer. ‘Both equipment units are meant to be used at Uvalnaya Mine’s new long-face. The customer chose Yurginsky Plant’s machines, including the overloader and the conveyor, since these have already proven efficient at other mines,’ the press service says. The plant designers introduced a
20 October 201613:15

ChTPZ Group Students to Study at UFU

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 20, 2016. Twenty-seven employees of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ), including fourteen alumni of the Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program, enrolled at Pipe Technologies & Equipment Department at Ural Federal University and are now studying for their Bachelor’s degrees. The off-campus department was set up on the plant’s premises. According to the Group’s PR Department, it will take the new students three years and two months to get qualifications in Power Engineering, Metallurgy, and Technological Equipment. This year,
20 October 201613:15

MegaFon, Ural Vagon Zavod Now Partners

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 20, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon improved the connection quality at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s departments and offices, the company press service reports. ‘The head plant was founded eighty years ago this month. MegaFon technicians introduced additional equipment upgrades and network settings in Nizhniy Tagil in time for the celebrations. As the plant buildings date back to the thirties and the forties, their thick walls turned out to be an obstacle. However, the country’s leading railcar and tank manufacturer’s facilities now
20 October 201613:15

Sverdlovsk Region: Foreign Trade Turnover Down 14.5%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 20, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s foreign trade turnover dropped by 14.5% (down to $6.1bn) in January-September 2016 compared with one year previously, Ural Customs inform UrBC. Exports declined by 10.9%, down to $4.9bn (including a 6.3% decrease in exports to countries outside the CIS and a 53.4% decrease in exports to CIS member states). Imports dropped by 26.7%, down to $1.1bn (including a 26.6% drop in imports from the countries outside the CIS and a 30.1% drop in imports from the CIS member states). In volume terms, Sverdlovsk Region’s foreign trade turnover went
20 October 201613:14

Sverdlovsk Region: Coal Stock Down 27.1%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 20, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s coal stock amounted to 1,351,100,000 kg on October 1, 2016; this was 27.1% less than one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. Furnace oil supplies stood at 193,100,000 kg on October 1, down 2.9% on last October. Based on the daily spending figures for September 2016, the current coal and furnace oil stock is expected to last for thirty-six and 848 days, respectively. The electric power, natural gas, and water producers and suppliers in the area now have 544,000,000 kg less coal (-36.9%) and 400,000 kg more furnace oil (+0.3%) than