UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 5, 2019. FORES Ltd’s Sukhoi Log branch keeps modernizing its production site, the company’s press service reports. Three temporary landfills got covered with concrete in June as part of the company’s environmental protection program. Additionally, a car tire collection spot got organized, as well as a storm drain for the temporary wood waste disposal site. The jobs cost around RUB 80,000 to complete,’ the press service says. According to the company’s representatives, all the production sites now meet all the existing sanitary standards. The concrete protects the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 5, 2019. OOO MMK Industrial Park and WorldSkills Russia signed a cooperation agreement, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ (MMK) press service reports. ‘Under the terms of the agreement, the industrial park’s residents will be able to offer professional development and continuous professional education courses to people in the 50+ age group free of charge; the courses will meet the international WorldSkills standards and will be offered as part of the Older Generation Project/National Demography Project,’ the press service says. Now WorldSkills Russia acts as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 5, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant’s (EVRAZ NTMK) team won gold in Engineering Design and Wiring during EVRAZ Holding’s corporate round of the WorldSkills Championship in Novokuznetsk. Contestants from EvrazTekhnika won the first prize in Mechatronics, whilst the gold medals in the rest of the categories went to EVRAZ United West Siberian Metallurgical Plant’s (EVRAZ ZSMK) team. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center’s PR Department, over three hundred professionals and experts from the holding’s six member enterprises (EVRAZ

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 5, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s employees, students on the Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program, and students on the Group’s Tatarstan College of the Future Corporate Training Program are all taking part in ChelPipe Group’s corporate round of the WorldSkills Championship; the competition takes place at the Group’s Training Center in Pervouralsk. According to the company’s press service, the thirty contestants represent ChelPipe Group’s pipe manufacturing division and Rimera Oilfield Services division (Alnas, Izhneftemash, Chelyabinsk Pipe

UrBC, Moscow, July 5, 2019. According to the international research company Ookla’s recent findings, MegaFon currently offers its customers the fastest Internet connection in Russia, with its average data transfer speed exceeding that of its immediate competitor by 1.5 times, the telecom company’s press service reports. MegaFon’s average download speed comes to more than 25.94 Mb/sec and the average upload speed comes to 11.59 Mb/sec. Ookla’s independent research continues on a yearly basis; in Russia, more than 7.9m speed tests were made on more than 1.5 different mobile devices (via the