UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 26, 2018. Sverdlovsk Oblast's division of Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service uncovered five price-fixing arrangements on the local markets last year. Thirteen legal entities had to face administrative liability, Head of the division's Antitrust Enforcement Department Ekaterina Vorobieva said at a recent press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to Vorobieva, two price-fixing agreements had to do with supplying surgical suture materials and two more – with highway construction and repair. Yet another arrangement was related to catering

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 26, 2018. Ural Airlines set a flying record of sorts: the airline's pilots have flown 1,000,000 hours with Airbus aircraft since the air carrier started using its first Airbus in 2006, the company press service reports. Over 300,000 flights have been operated so far, with more than 40m passengers on board; hundreds of new destinations have been introduced, connecting dozens of countries and cities to one another. Ural Airlines started using Airbus liners in November 2006; A320 was used for Yekaterinburg-Moscow flight. There are currently forty-three A320 (23

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 26, 2018. EVRAZ Holding's Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) now makes a new kind of metal product, 30P channel beams. The first commercial-scale batch of rolled metal produce was made for the customers in Saint Petersburg and Moscow Oblast in January, the company press service reports. 'These hot-rolled 300-mm-high channel beams with parallel faces and increased hardness parameters are used for making heavy-duty frameworks. The beams are quite popular with housing developers and building reconstructors as well as with machine-builders.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, January 26, 2018. Russian Copper Company Group's Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant (KMEZ) introduced yet another upgrade to its copper cathode production department. The department now operates three new electric current converters (two primary ones and one back-up one), the Group's press service reports. The new equipment runs upon thyristor-controlled rectifiers and has better output, capacity, and current rectifier parameters than its old diode versions. KMEZ expert from the Senior Power Engineer's Department Vladimir Zubov, Senior Electrician Sergey

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 26, 2018. Rosatom TVEL's Novouralsk-based asset Ural Electrochemical Combine completed the startup and commissioning of an impregnation treatment plant for finely dispersed nuclear materials, the plant's press service reports. The new plant makes it possible to condition non-recyclable radioactive waste into the necessary activity levels. Only once the radioactive waste-filled vessel has been cemented does it get placed inside a container for further disposal. All the necessary operations (preparation of the cement solution, delivery of the radioactive