UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 31, 2018. MetalloInvest and ChelPipe Group agreed to set up a new research/engineering center together to work on new, innovative steel types and to focus on their steel produce’s quality improvements, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. The decision to set up the center was taken during the coordination committee meeting at MetalloInvest’s member enterprise Ural Steel. ‘MetalloInvest has, in fact, been doing business with ChelPipe Group for many years now; a new research/engineering center will help take this long-time partnership to a new level: the Group’s

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 31, 2018. MMK Group’s Shlakservis is about to start making a new type of ground-granulated slag mix that is currently unique to Russia and other NIS member states, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The slag is used in the process of steel-pouring at CC machines. Shlakservis has been making this product since 1992 and has had both the granulated slag and the technology patented by the Russian Patent & Trademark Agency. Last year, the company researchers cooperated with casting labs at G.I. Nosov Moscow State Technical University and Peter the Great

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2018. MegaFon Ural’s engineers recently completed a large-scale upgrade of the mobile commutator in charge of processing calls within Sverdlovsk Region, the company press service reports. MegaFon’s new equipment has expanded the network’s overall capacity by five times to ensure ever more traffic can get handled even at maximum workload points, that is, during large-scale sports and entertainment events and festivals. Substituting the appliances relating to the company’s mobile commutation center came to be called SWAP, to imply change and replacement. It took

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2018. Ural Airlines and Belavia are now offering their customers tickets for code-shared connecting flights to and from Minsk. According to Ural Airlines’ press service, Minsk-bound flights will be available from any of the airports where the air carrier is active, with a stopover in Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport or Saint Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport starting August 1. ‘Working together with Ural Airlines means our customers can enjoy new travel options. Thanks to these new code-sharing agreements, our Belarus-based passengers can choose among a wide range of

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 31, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) allocated RUR 2.8m to help local schools get overhauled/remodeled in time for the new academic year, MMK Information & PR Department reports. The money was directed to new sanitary fixtures, building materials, and construction work that is currently in full progress at the schools involved. MMK Group’s member enterprises have been supporting local schools for quite a while now. In addition to helping with repairs and improvements, the companies also get engaged in job counseling events, offer guided tours of