UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 12, 2019. Lack of workers with digital skills is one of the key obstacles to the speedier digitization of Russia’s industry, ChelPipe Group’s shareholder Andrei Komarov said at Innoprom 2019 International Industrial Exhibition’s plenary session (The Industry of the Future: Growth Potential in New Digital Technologies & Organizational Models), the Group’s press service reports. Russia’s Deputy Minister for Industry & Trade Oleg Bocharov chaired the session. Government officials and members of the expert and business communities talked about the prospects of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 12, 2019. A discussion on AI solutions for ‘smart cities’ took place within the 10th Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition’s business program in Yekaterinburg. Maxim Isayev contributed to the talks, Rusatom Infrastructure Solutions/Rusatom Smart Utilities’ press service reports. ‘321 projects have been registered with Russia’s Construction & Utilities Ministry’s Smart City National Project’s database so far. The existing variety of Smart City solutions covers different parts of urban infrastructure: energy efficiency, control over communal housing

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 12, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is now Hi Tech Produce Exporter of The Year, singled out among all the other enterprises operating in Ural Federal District, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The awarding ceremony for Exporter of The Year Prize winners took place during the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS 2019) in Yekaterinburg this week. MMK won in the Ural Federal District round of the contest (Large Business) and will now take part in the all-Russian stage of the competition. The Exporter of The Year Prize was

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 12, 2019. The sock filter RIF 1700 stayed functional for over two years at the rotating roasting kiln unit at FORES’s Kuryuinsky branch; at the end of June, a new set of filtration sleeves had to get installed there, the company’s press service reports. ‘The filtering appliances’ lifespan depends on how much workload they have to handle. Albokos, the filter manufacturer, provided a two-year performance guarantee on the product. As a matter of fact, the filters remained efficient for much longer,’ says the branch director Vladimir Golovin. According to FORES, a filter

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 12, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company is going to coordinate a grand-scale sports event Raspadskaya GunterCup 2019 in Novokuznetsk; Russia’s leading basketball players and the band Quest Pistols Show will be contributing to the show. According to Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department, the event will take place at Arena Novokuznetsk on July 13. Workers from EVRAZ Consolidated West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK), Sibuglemet, and Raspadskaya Coal Company, young sports players from Novokuznetsk’s children’s sports clubs, and the town locals are