UrBC, Magnitogorsk, May 30, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and AvtoVAZ’s coordination council’s meeting took place in Magnitogorsk this week. The two parties looked into their performance in 2018 and 2019 and adopted an action plan for the next year. According to the plant’s Information & PR Department, MMK currently remains the key rolled metal goods supplier for the Togliatti-based car manufacturer; AvtoVAZ is also MMK’s key customer in the automobile body sheets segment. ‘More than 50% of our produce for the car making industry gets supplied to AvtoVAZ, so this

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s member enterprises are coordinating a health and safety week at the moment, the Group’s press service reports. ‘Over thirty different events will take place in Chelyabinsk, Pervouralsk, Almetyevsk, Izhevsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Noyabrsk, and Moscow, with the primary focus on health and safety. More than 5,000 ‘white-coated metallurgists’ will attend job safety and fire safety workshops, take part in educational quests, trivia quizzes, practices coached by professional sports players, and theme contests,’ the Group says. ‘The company sees creating

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2019. New equipment arrived at EVRAZ Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine. The company now has two new JOY cutter-loaders, two EBZ-160 tunneling machines, and one Sandvik pulling unit. According to EVRAZ Holding’s press service, the cutter-loaders will get assembled within two new coal-faces (4-6-35 and 5а-7-34) that will get launched before the end of the year. The equipment will get operated by Stanislav Kovtunets’s team (Section 10) and Alexei Ivanov’s team (Section 17). ‘Our new EBZ-160 machines are meant to get used on tough rock. The miners and the

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, May 30, 2019. Students on ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program won prizes and medals at the 7th national WorldSkills Russia Championship in Kazan. The Group’s team won one gold medal, one silver one, and one bronze one. According to the Group’s press service, the first prize in Industrial Mechanics & Assembly and the second prize in Reverse Engineering went to Andrei Yefimov and Nikita Kuznetsov, both of them students on the Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Program from Pervouralsk. The third prize in CAD Engineering

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2019. The telecom company MegaFon now has 7% more LTE stations than at the start of the year, the company reports. ‘MegaFon currently operates more than 93,000 4G base stations throughout the country, which is more than any other telecom giant on the Big4 list does,’ the company says. According to Roskomnadzor, the number of MegaFon’s LTE base stations exceeded 93,000 by May 1, 2019. This means the company now owns more than 34% of all the 4G stations in Russia. Together, all the mobile carriers/ISPs operating in the country have 272,000 stations all in all.