UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 10, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Aleksandrinskaya Ore Mining Company based in Nagaibaksky District, Chelyabinsk Region, is now working to upgrade its processing plant and replace the old vacuum ceramic filter with a new-generation hydraulic press, the company press service reports. The new filter will reduce moisture content in the copper and zinc concentrate considerably, bringing it down from the current 12% to as little as 8%. The equipment is scheduled for delivery and assembly in the last quarter of the year. The entire upgrades will cost 45m RUR to go through

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Innoprom 2017 stand will feature Smart Copper this year, the company press service reports. ‘Smart Copper is the standard for hi tech, efficient, and responsible copper production that the company is introducing at its plants. The idea is to combine up-to-date technologies with being environmentally responsible to make high quality, globally competitive ore produce,’ the press service says. Russian Copper Company’s stand is likely to prove one of the exhibition’s brightest and biggest highlights as usual. The company uses the most

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2017. President of Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov chaired an off-site meeting of Russian Railways Council for Cooperation with Transport Machine-Building Enterprises at Sinara Group’s Ural Locomotives on July 5, 2017. According to the Group’s press service, the meeting was attended by Russian Railways Members of the Board, heads of railway divisions, and top managers of locomotive plants and O&M businesses. Oleg Belozerov’s very first visit to Ural Locomotives began with a tour of the production site. Sinara Group’s Chair of the BOD Dmitri Pumpyansky and the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2017. An all-Russian student construction site will open in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District on July 8, 2017; this is actually the Day of Saint Peter and Saint Fevronia, Family Day in Russia, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. This is the eighth time the construction site with summer jobs for students opens in Akademicheskiy. Nine student teams from Yekaterinburg and Nizhniy Tagil are coming to the site this year. Since the site’s opening ceremony coincided with the Family Day this year, the students, who arrived from all over the country, came

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2017. MegaFon’s telecom engineers improved mobile connection quality at Koltsovsky Tract to get ready for the International Innoprom 2017 Exhibition, the company press service reports. The local traffic is estimated at 50,000 to 100,000 automobiles a day, and MegaFon promises to ensure great connection throughout the entire 12 km of the highway. Given an increased passenger influx at Koltsovo Airport, steps were taken to make sure the network capacity proves sufficient. Both locals and visitors to Yekaterinburg can now enjoy the comfort of a speedy mobile