UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 16, 2018. Rosatom TVEL’s Novouralsk-based Ural Electrochemical Combine came up with a performance report on industrial safety, job safety, nuclear safety, radiation safety, and environmental protection for the year 2017, the company press service reports. ‘There were no INES scale-rated nuclear or radiation events, incidents, or emergencies at the plant last year that could have affected the population, the plant’s staff, or the environment in any way,’ the plant’s Deputy Technical Director for Nuclear, Radiation and Industrial Safety & Job Safety Evgeny

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 16, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) managed to reduce its harmful air emissions by 3.7% last year compared with the year 2016. This resulted from a whole range of environmental initiatives, the company press service reports. ‘Throughout all of last year, the plant was busy repairing its aspiration systems (including the dust- and gas-trapping units at the three ladle furnaces in the converter shop, at the final check lines at the wheel-making department, at the foundry departments, and at the slurry recycling

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 16, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and SMS Group GmbH signed an agreement for the delivery of equipment needed to reconstruct MMK’s hot-roll Mill 2500 at the company Sheet-Rolling Department 4. The equipment will get delivered onto the plant in a series of shipments throughout the next three years, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The mill reconstruction is part of MMK’s long-term strategic program to upgrade the finishing train, namely, to improve its process control system. ‘The Mill 2500 reconstruction is part of MMK’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 16, 2018. Sberbank Ural issued its first mortgage that was part of the state-subsidized support program for young families with children. According to RSG-Akademicheskoye, the program took off at Sberbank Ural on February 7. The very next day, a Yekaterinburg family who had their second child two weeks earlier, was issued a mortgage where the interest rate comes to 6% a year for the first three years. The new home owners will move to their two-bedroom apartment in Akademicheskiy District in the nearest future. ‘Yekaterinburg is one of Russia’s first cities to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 16, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) supplied a set of 54 E1 rails (1,650,000 kg all in all) to Greece for the first time ever. The rails will be used for Athens Underground expansion, the company press service says. Attiko Metro representatives and J&P Avax (the project developer) executives audited ZSMK in the fall and looked into the rail-testing process. They were quite satisfied with the results of the inspection as well as with the quality of produce. ‘EVRAZ Holding’s strategic goal is to become an influential