UrBC, Moscow, January 16, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) proved No.1 among Russian manufacturers of galvanized and coated rolled metal products from among ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgical enterprises in the second half of 2016. The usual rating was carried by Metallosnabzheniye I Sbyt magazine. This is the third time MMK has made it to the top of this rating. ‘The plant became the coated metal goods market leader thanks to its long-term galvanizing and polymeric coating facilities upgrade program. The plant introduced two continuous hot-dip galvanizing units and two

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 16, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant selected its Youth Mentors of The Year as usual; forty people from the plant’s various departments and divisions took part in the contest, the company press service reports. There are currently over a thousand mentors active at the plant. Turner from the plant’s Experimental Department Vyacheslav Kurdeyev won the first prize this year, while repair mechanic from the Assembly Department Vyacheslav Akimov and steel smelter from the Open Hearth Department Igor Korkin won silver and bronze, respectively. ‘The judges

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 16, 2017. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) sold 882,000,000 kg of steel pipes to customers in the last quarter of 2016, which was 7.4% more than in the third quarter; the increase was mainly brought about by the increased sales of welded pipes and weldless OCTGs within TMK’s Russian division. The company sold 3.1% more weldless pipes in Q’IV 16 than in Q’III and reached 633,000,000 kg. Mainly, these were weldless OCTGs and weldless industrial pipes. Welded pipe sales rose by 20% compared with the third quarter of 2016 and amounted to 249,000,000 kg; mainly, these

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 16, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region’s Power Committee (REK) increased public transport fares from 26 to 28 RUR starting from February 1, 2017. ‘REK met the local transport operators’ needs partially by raising the cost of using public transport to 28 RUR. The changes come into effect on February 1. As a matter of fact, the operators had actually asked for an increase to as much as 31 to 35 RUR, but the committee did not think this justified, economically: the operators were unable to prove the expenses that would need to be compensated with a price increase as big as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 16, 2017. Yekaterinburg Customs’ overall foreign trade turnover shrank by 13.6%, down to $8.2bn RUR, last year compared with the year 2015. 95.1% of foreign transactions were carried out with partners based outside the CIS, while the remaining 4.9% were carried out with partners based in the CIS member states, the customs’ press service reports. The United States, Algeria, China, the Netherlands, Greece, Germany, India, Switzerland, and Italy proved Sverdlovsk Region’s most important foreign trade partners last year, with their share of the turnover at 17%, 13.7%,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 16, 2017. FlyDubai airplane going from Dubai to Yekaterinburg had to face an emergency landing in Chelyabinsk last night. Koltsovo Airport’s press service reports the decision had to be taken as the plane (Boeing 737-800) wasn’t functioning properly. At the same time, it is also reported the trouble had been caused by poor weather conditions in Yekaterinburg. There were seven crew members and 170 passengers on board. Passengers got transferred from Chelyabinsk to Yekaterinburg by bus.