UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2017. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated & Metallurgical Works (NTMK) launched their recently upgraded coke dry-quenching plant in the course of a special solemn ceremony. This project required RUR 175m in investments, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The launching ceremony took place at the opening of the 2nd International EcoTech 2017 Forum/Exhibition. The plant got launched by Russia’s Minister for Natural Resources & Environment Sergey Donskoy and EVRAZ Vice President and head of EVRAZ Holding Ural Maxim Andriasov. ‘I would

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2017. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) presented its environmental responsibility rating for Russia’s mining and metallurgical companies. Russian Copper Company was given the 6th position out 33 this year, which was 8 points better than in 2016. ‘In addition to this main rating, the WWF also evaluated companies in terms of environmental management (with Russian Copper Company coming 4th/5th in the rating), in terms of environmental impact (8th position), and in terms of transparency (6th/8th position),’ the company press service reports. Russian Copper Company

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 13, 2017. Russian Copper Company is going to present its environmental projects on restoring the sites and facilities damaged throughout the Soviet era at EcoTech 2017 Forum in Moscow, the company press service reports. The company intends to reclaim an abandoned tailing dump at the former Karabash Copper-Smelting Plant and to refill Korkinsky Mine. The reclamation plan for Karabash’s abandoned tailing dump was officially confirmed through an agreement Karabashmed signed with Russia’s Ministry for Natural Resources & the Environment, Rosprirodnadzor, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2017. ChTPZ Group and National University of Science and Technology MISiS signed a ‘roadmap’ on their cooperation in 2018, the company press service reports. The document was signed by the Group’s Director-General Boris Kovalenkov and the university’s Vice-Rector for Educational AffairsVadim Petrov. ‘We have been collaborating with NUST MISIS within the framework of our Leadership program that relies on the university’s Master programs,’ says the Group’s Director-General Boris Kovalenkov. ‘Our company employs dozens of NUST MISIS alumni, many of them in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2017. 179,000 m2 worth of new housing got commissioned in Sverdlovsk Oblast in November 2017, Sverdlovsk Oblast Information Policy Department refers to Sverdlovskstat as stating. A year earlier, 212,000 m2 worth of new housing got commissioned, which was 15.6% more than in November 2017. As for Yekaterinburg alone, 133,000 m2 of new housing got commissioned there last month (compared with 123,000 m2 commissioned in November 2016). On a yearly scale, 1.6m m2 worth of housing was put up in Sverdlovsk Oblast in January through November 2017, including 101,000 m2