UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. Delegates from the Mid-Urals are taking part in the international EXPO 2017 this August; the exhibition opened in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on June 10, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Talks will be held with the representatives of the Kazakhstan Government’s executive branch on investment, energy sector, and healthcare projects; some negotiations with governors of Karaganda Region, Kostanai Region, North Kazakhstan Region, Pavlodar Region, and Astana - Sverdlovsk Region’s primary business partners - will also take place. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. EVRAZ Holding is planning to put up new filtering facilities at its Gorno-Shorsky Subsidiary’s Sheregeshskaya Mine, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The project will require over 460m RUR worth of investments to complete. ‘These up-to-date filtering facilities will be part of the bigger mine reconstruction project, resulting in greater crude ore production output and a considerably reduced environmental impact. Thanks to the new facilities, the quality of water in the River Bolshoy Unzas, the local village’s primary artery, will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. ChTPZ Group and South Ural State University’s Polytechnic signed a cooperation roadmap for 2017-2022 on the premiss of the Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, the Group’s press service reports. It is reported the company and the college will work together on science-intensive projects, improvement of existing technologies, student interaction, internships at the Group’s assets, job counseling for high school students, and professional development for the company’s highly skilled metallurgists. ‘ChTPZ Group has been cooperating with South Ural State

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. The mining team at EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine has produced 4,000,000,000 kg of coal since the start of the year and was thus one of the first to set this production record in Kuzbass in the first seven months of the year, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. Raspadskaya Coal Company’s management congratulated the miners on their success. ‘Raspadskaya Mine keeps increasing its coal production output every year, which means this company remains the coke-coal production leader in Kemerovo Region. We owe these record output figures

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is to host the local round of a production experience-sharing workshop for metallurgical industry workers on July 27, MMK Information & PR Administration reports. This is the second and final round of the workshop; the first one was held at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works on July 24-25. Over twenty managers and employees from the Energy Departments of Severstal, Novolipetsk Integrated Metallurgical Works, Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works, Tulachermet, and NLMK Kaluga will