UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Omsktransmash has been making increasingly more metallurgical produce in the last three years, the company press service reports. ‘Omsktransmash started making a whole range of new products in the last few years. The plant used to get a lot of orders for castings such as railway crossing clamps, couplers, and cross arms (fifteen different types of products altogether), but now the demand for these is down and we had to focus on manganese steel castings. These make up 90% of our output at the moment, whereas the remaining

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant keeps testing EO 41211A, its new crawler-mounted excavator, the company press service reports. The standard tests (500 hours of real-life conditions performance) are meant to help assess the need for structural or manufacturing process adjustments that could improve the product’s technological parameters. ‘Ural Vagon Zavod’s excavator has already passed the first testing stage successfully by excavating clay material from a mine. The vehicle is now used at a construction site in Nizhniy Tagil, extracting some

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2016. Albert Yamaliyev’s team of miners from EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Alardinskaya Mine has produced 2,000,000,000kg of coal at Coal Mining Section 1 (section head: Valeriy Kuznetsov; mechanic: Victor Volodin) since the start of the year, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press service reports. ‘There is some shortage of met coal on both the national and the global markets at the moment. To make sure the metallurgical industry’s needs are met, we need to maintain stable, productive, and emergency-free work performance. Alardinskaya miners do very well

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2016. Siemens and Sinara Group’s joint venture Ural Locomotives’ Lastochka Premium ES2GP Train went on a demonstration trip from Yekaterinburg to Tyumen and back on November 17-18, 2016, Sinara Group’s press service reports. It takes the train 3 hours and fifteen minutes to get from Yekaterinburg to Tyumen (or back), which is one hour faster than the shortest connection currently on the train schedule, with average speed at 150 km per hour. ‘The new electric train was displayed to Tyumen Region Duma deputies on Sverdlovsk Railways Day. Deputy Chair of Tyumen

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2016. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the general contractor for the reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Central Stadium in time for the World Cup 2018, is now busy connecting the stadium’s internal and external roof rings. Sinara Group’s PR Center reports the first connecting support beam (height: 31m; weight: 10,000kg) has been installed next to the northern stand. ‘In order to make the transportation of such a bulky structure easier, the beam was originally made of two equally large parts that were then assembled and welded together right on the