UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 10, 2017. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) is getting ready for the upcoming heating season of 2017/2018, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. ‘The plant’s power station and other heating facilities underwent large-scale repairs throughout this summer. For one, an overhaul was given to Boiler 3, whereas Steam Generator 3 underwent a major reconstruction. This both ensured a more reliable power supply and increased our furnace gas recycle rate by 50%. Switching to furnace gas means we can save considerably on the costly

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 10, 2017. The Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) sent a thank-you letter to Vice President of the South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry Igor Aristov to express its gratitude for the CCI’s contribution to improvements in the national business climate, the Chamber’s press service reports. The South Urals CCI has helped to estimate the current parameters of mechanisms aimed to make business procedures easier and to enhance the national constituencies’ investment appeal. The letter states that the Chamber’s experts’ reports and comments serve as supporting

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 10, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company Untied Energy Systems connected Salym Petroleum Development N.V.’s oil-extracting facilities to the national power network, the company’s West Siberian division’s press service reports. This means the company’s disposable power supply rose from 36 to 96 megawatts. FGC UES power engineers extended the 220-kilowatt Snezhnaya Substation’s outdoor switchgear to two 110-kilowatt sections, which means the end user can now enjoy the extra 60 megawatts worth of power. ‘Snezhnaya Substation was put up in 1973. The facility ensures

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 10, 2017. Seats for the new version of Ural Locomotives’ Lastochka, the electric train, were presented at Moscow’s Rizhsky Station this week. The new train is meant for Russian Railways’ Federal Passenger Company’s inter-constituency routes, Sinara Group’s press service reports. Both top mangers and middle-level employees of Federal Passenger Company as well as representatives of Russian Railways’ Technical Policy Department, Passenger Transit Administration, and High-Speed Transit Directorate and Ural Locomotives’ design engineers contributed to the discussion on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 10, 2017. 28 alumni of ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program took their military oaths recently, the company press service reports. The solemn ceremony took place in the regiment based in Gorny Shchit, Sverdlovsk Region. ‘ChTPZ Group has been cooperating with this military regiment for five years now. Some two hundred Pervouralsk Metallurgical School’s alumni served their army terms there and came back to work at the plant’s various departments. Once this year’s corporate training program alumni have served their terms, they are