UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2017. RSG-Akademicheskoye is now among the largest developers operating in the Urals and Siberia, the company press service refers to Expert Center’s rating as indicating. The company came second in the rating of major Ural and Siberian developers. The company’s Deputy Director-General Pavel Petrichenko said the year 2016 proved one of growth for RSG-Akademicheskoye, as the developer both commissioned and sold nearly 20% more housing than in the year 2015. In 2017, the company offers its customers even more: you can now buy ready-to-move-in apartments as well

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2017. ChTPZ Group now makes a new type of longitudinal pipes made from stainless chrome/nickel steel (diameter: 20 mm; layer thickness: 2 mm; length: 18 to 20.3 meters). The pipes are made at the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ), and the first batch of pipes (total length: 24,000 meters) has already been delivered to customer. According to the Group’s press service, the plant was able to start making new pipe types after its pipe-drawing facilities got upgraded. Last year, PNTZ launched hi tech cold reducing mill 10-45 and a pipe finishing line. This

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 21, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and G.I. Nosov Moscow State Technical University got a silver medal at Metall Expo 2017 Exhibition for their development and introduction of a new technology for delivery of charging material into blast furnaces. The technology is suitable for blast furnaces with tray-type, bell-less tops and for charging material with varying pellet content, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘Our member enterprise MMK METIZ also won several awards this year. The company got diplomas for designing and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2017. Miners from EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine have produced 5,528,000,000 kg of coal since the start of the year and thus already met this year’s target output figures, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s corporate relations center reports. Raspadskaya Coal Company’s management congratulated the miners on their production success and said foremen Stanislav Kovtunets, Alexei Ivanov, and Rustam Muminov worked particularly hard to achieve the goal. ‘The secret of Raspadskaya’s success lies in the power and unity of its team. Both managers and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2017. A round table discussion on renovating passenger railcars used for commuter routes was held at the Federation Council’s meeting recently. Director-General of Siemens and Sinara Group’s joint venture Ural Locomotives Alexander Saltayev spoke at this meeting, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. The round table discussion participants pointed out that Russian Railways came up with an action plan to improve their passenger service in 2017-2019, with over RUR 175m allocated for the purpose. ‘The demand for rail commutes has been rising steadily; according to