UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is offering its customers a new deposit scheme with annual interest rate of 8.5% at the start of the winter holiday season. This is a flexible deposit option, as you can both add money to your account and take some cash out, the bank’s press service reports. The deposit can get opened at any of the bank’s branches, where an expert will do the exact interest yield calculations for you, inform you of all the terms and conditions, and answer your questions. You can also set up the deposit via your

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2017. A group of Russian Railways delegates came to EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) to look at the plant’s rail production facilities and talk about the two companies’ strategic cooperation; this was all part of a two-day New Railway Solutions Conference, the company press service reports. ‘EVRAZ and Russian Railways work together to improve this country’s transport security as well as the quality of railway freight forwarding. ZSMK keeps designing new railway produce based on its key partner’s current needs,’ says EVRAZ

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2017. ChTPZ Group recently supplied a new, experimental set of pumping and compression pipes with F 3.2 threaded joints to Surgutneftegaz. The pipes were made at the Group’s Finishing Center at Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, the company press service reports. The pipes (diameter: 73 mm; layer thickness: 5.5 mm) are used in the formation hydraulic fracturing process, which is one of the ways to increase an oil or gas well’s output, and for a number of technological procedures in straight and inclined wells. The pipes are very durable because they are made from a

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 1, 2017. The management of the South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry recently negotiated with representatives of the Chinese province Heilongjiang’s international trade committee the CCI’s press service reports. ‘The talks covered discussions on a number of joint projects to improve Chelyabinsk Oblast and China’s economic ties. This is all part of a cooperation agreement Ural Federal District’s CCI Association signed with China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) during the China-Russia EXPO this June,’ the press service says. It was

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 1, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) directed RUR 223m to working conditions improvements last year; as a result, the plant now has fewer jobs with hazardous factors, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department refers to the plant’s Jobs Safety and Industrial Safety Director Alexei Beltyukov. According to Beltyukov, a special working conditions evaluation procedure has been carried out at 76% of all the workplaces. The remaining 24% will get inspected in 2018. An ad hoc committee gets set up by the Director-General’s order every year, an