UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 1, 2018. A new Railcar Tippler 5 got launched at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Sintering Mix Processing Department 2, the company press service reports. ‘The raw materials will get loaded from the tippler directly onto Sintering Plant 5 (currently under construction), which means we won’t have to use an excavator to load/unload the stuffs into and out of a transfer railcar. This also means we’ll be able to handle much more raw stuffs than before,’ the press service says. The new railcar tippler’s capacity is estimated at 20 railcars per hour. The

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 1, 2018. A new naphthalenic particle distillation processing unit was launched at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Coke & By-Product Process Department’s Chemicals Trapping & Recycling Section recently, the company press service reports. The unit is expected to double the plant’s commercial naphthalene production output and to reduce its environmental impact significantly as well. ‘We used to make some 7,500,000 kg of commercial naphthalene a year, but now, thanks to the new unit and the new technology we are using, the output will rise to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 1, 2018. V.A. Sorokin Koltsovo Customs at Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport came up with a performance report for 2017, their press service reports. Based on the cargo manifests processed by this customs point last year, their freight turnover rose by 94% compared with the year 2016 and thus amounted to 147,000,000 kg of goods. Countries of the far abroad proved Russian contractors’ primary partners in import/export transactions. France was responsible for 34% of the overall goods turnover, Germany for 21%, the United States of America for 16%, Israel for 4.5%,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 1, 2018. Yekaterinburg proved Russia’s third largest automobile market last year, preceded only by Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Avtostat reports. ‘The number of cars on the Russian roads rose by 50% in the last decade. There were 28m cars in the country in 2007 and as many as over 42m in 2017,’ the agency explains. The country’s two largest metropolises have the largest number of automobiles in them: 3.65m in Moscow and 1.68m in Saint Petersburg, according to Avtostat. Yekaterinburg (450,000 cars), Novosibirsk (434,000), Samara (391,000), Kazan (368,000), Nizhniy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 1, 2018. Sverdlovsk Oblast-based micro-financing organizations issued 7.5% more loans to their customers in the last quarter of 2017 than in the third quarter, with the overall amount at RUR 4.098bn, National Credit History Bureau reports. In Russia on the whole, the amount of such loans went up by 12.6% (up to RUR 164.7bn altogether). ‘Micro-financing organizations’ loan books grew quite slowly in the third quarter of 2017 but quite noticeably in the last quarter of the year. The shortest-term (and therefore the costliest) loans were the fastest-growing category