UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 15, 2018. ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) has been featured in the environmental Ryabinin Rating for the second time in a row this year, the Group’s press service reports. The company also received a thank-you letter from Vladimir Plyusnin, Deputy Chair of the All-Russian Environmental Protection Society’s Sverdlovsk Region division, for its environmental control efforts. The rating is built upon some ten criteria, including capital investments in conservation, efforts to reduce a company’s emissions and waste production, and a focus on corporate

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 15, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works made their pilot batch of DT400 IK heavy-duty rails, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Department reports. This is the first time such rails with enhanced strength and performance parameters have been manufactured in Russia. The rails were presented at EVRAZ ZSMK during a recent visit of Russian Railways’ delegates headed by the company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer Sergey Kobzev. ‘DT400 IK rails are particularly wear-resistant and have an 8% longer lifespan than their

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 15, 2018. The telecommunications provider MegaFon has launched 4G bases in Sysert, Berezovsky, Kachkanar, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Karpinsk, Kamensk-Uralsky, Verkhniy Tagil, Ivdel, Volchansk, Krasnouralsk, Verkhnyaya Salda, Nizhnyaya Salda, and Novaya Lyalya since the start of the year, the carrier’s press service reports. ‘Even if a video download is only delayed by four to six seconds, the suspense a user experiences is comparable to that caused by watching a horror movie and proves even more stressful than a traffic jam. Such were the findings of a recent research

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 15, 2018. MMK Group directed around RUR 2.24bn to charity and social programs last year, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 4%, the company press service reports. RUR 1.4bn came from Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) itself; the company is now among Russia’s corporate social responsibility leaders in the mining and metallurgical sector, with SCR spending at RUR 42,700 per worker on average last year. MMK and MMK Group’s member organizations allocate funds for a wide range of charity and social programs that cover nearly all aspects of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 15, 2018. Ural Airlines came up with a performance report for the first two months of 2018. 1,039,739 people flew with the air carriers in January and February 2018 (up 20% on a year earlier), the airline’s press service reports. The company operated 7,691 flights between January 1 and February 28, 2018, including 4,310 domestic flights, 1,762 flights to and from the CIS member states, and 1,619 international flights. This was 16% more than in the first two months of 2017. 473,134 people flew with Ural Airlines in February alone (up 20% on last February). The