UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 25, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is currently coordinating its local section of inter-company experience-sharing workshop for job safety and industrial safety experts and managers, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘In addition to MMK experts, the workshop will also be attended by professionals from Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Works, Novolipetsk Metallurgical Works, Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works, Severstal, Metalloinvest, and Russia’s other leading metallurgical enterprises - around sixty managers and job

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 25, 2018. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) had its environmental management system certified in accordance with the international ISO 14001:2015 standard requirements, the Group’s press service reports. The certification procedure was carried out by TUV Rheinland. Upon the completion of the audit, the certification body confirmed that PNTZ’s environmental management system met all the strict standards and that the plant introduced all the new regulations at its production sites successfully. The new certificate is now valid for the next three years.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 25, 2018. Sinara Group’s TMK CHERMET worked on a number of projects to bring down its scrap metal-processing facilities’ environmental impact in the Year of The Environment, the Group’s PR Center reports. ‘For one, the company came up with a program for sewage disposal at its production site in Volzhsky and expanded the area of concrete-covered scrap metal storage facilities at its sites in Taganrog, Yekaterinburg, and Engels. Also, training sessions were conducted with employees, accompanied by a number of supporting visual aids on sites.’ ‘The company’s nineteen

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, January 25, 2018. Russian Copper Company’s Chelyabinsk Oblast-based asset Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant (KMEZ) set a new production record last year, making over 128,000,000 kg of copper cathodes (up 5% on the year 2016), Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. This was possible mostly to increased crude copper output at Karabashmed, which is primarily responsible for supplying KMEZ with raw stuffs. Karabashmed made 7% more copper in 2017 than in 2016, with final output at 120,000,000 kg. ‘KMEZ fully switched to mineral stuffs supplied by Russian Copper

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 25, 2018. Sverdlovsk Oblast’s industrial production index (IPI) rose by 3.1% in January through December 2017 compared with the year 2016, Sverdlovskstat reports. More specifically, the IPI increased by 4% in the processing sector and by 5.6% in the sector for production and distribution of electric power, natural gas, and water, and declined by 15.4% in the fossils production sector. At the same time, Sverdlovsk Oblast’s industrial production index shrank by 3% in December 2017 compared with December 2016.