UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil is working to induce professional standards on the premises, the company press service reports. This is one of the plant’s primary people management goals for 2016 and 2017. ‘Our first professional standard was developed for job safety experts. Following a training session and an exam, 100% of our job safety professionals now meet their qualification and skills requirements. Now workers from the plant’s Weights & Measures Lab are also undergoing professional development training at our

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2016. A new equipment assembly line is now under way at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ), the company press service reports. The assembly line will be installed in the engineering equipment building in the eastern section of the plant’s premises. This ‘restart’ is part of the plant’s optimization program and is expected to help bring all production facilities onto a single site so that the remaining empty spaces could be used for Technics Industrial Park. The primary assembly line that is currently in use is located in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) proved Sverdlovsk Region’s best charity provider among ferrous metallurgical enterprises, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The awarding ceremony took place in Yekaterinburg on December 14, during the annual Charity Days. This year, NTMK directed over 1bn RUR to CSR and charity projects. ‘The holding has been supporting young infantile cerebral palsy patients for over a decade now. With some support from the company, children with disabilities can go horse-riding, take drawing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2016. SKB-Bank was featured in sravni.ru’s reliability rating of Russia’s two hundred largest banks as the one in the second most reliable banks group, the bank’s press service reports. The rating is based on the banks’ financial report indicators and a number of other criteria and distributes the country’s two hundred major banks within the reliability range, from the most to the least dependable ones. SKB-Bank is now in the second group that unites banks controlled by federal constituencies’ governments, which means they are more or less state-run but a bit

Rosatom’s Ural Electrochemical Works (UEKhK) in Novouralsk hosted the 3d Small Group Leaders’ Forum on December 9, 2016, the company press service reports. The forum has been held at the premises every year since 2014 in order to ensure feedback flow between managers and employees and to increase workers’ involvement in the production management process. ‘Fifty of the company’s production managers, moderators, and experts united into one team for the day to look into ways of making their small groups more efficient,’ the press service says. According to the rules of the forum, all