UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 17, 2019. A new automated boiler settings adjustment system has been introduced at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) power stations recently; the savings are estimated to come to more than RUB 85m a year. According to the company’s press service, the new system will ensure a more efficient use of energy resources and will also reduce harmful air emissions greatly. The system has been designed and launched by experts from MMK Senior Energy Engineer’s Department in cooperation with MMK United Service Company (USC) and South Ural State University as part of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 17, 2019. ChelPipe Group presented the first results stemming from a series of new private-public partnership solutions implemented in the Group-supported vocational schools at Innoprom 2019 International Industrial Exhibition in Yekaterinburg, the company’s press service reports. Since 2001, the Group has been involved in the PPP project the Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program in Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region, and Tatarstan. The program relies on a dual education model, with 40% of the study time dedicated to learning the theory and

UrBC, Moscow, July 17, 2019. Rosatom Corporation is launching a new social welfare project called Right to Health. The Basics of Efficient Patient-Doctor Interaction for Nuclear Industry Towns. The project aims to improve the quality of healthcare and enhance both patients’ and doctors’ legal literacy. Between July 2019 and March 2020, the project will get implemented in Sverdlovsk Region and Chelyabinsk Region towns where Rosatom runs its member enterprises: Novouralsk, Lesnoy, Ozersk, Snezhinsk, Trekhgorny, and Zarechny, the company’s press service reports. ‘When people are not fully aware

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 17, 2019. Raspadskaya. GunterCup 2019, a family basketball event, took place at Sports Palace in Novokuznetsk. Some 3,000 people came to see the game, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s press service reports. Siberia’s twelve strongest teams competed in the street ball contest. Russia’s basketball stars, European and world champions gave master classes to hundreds of children from local basketball schools and children from Novokuznetsk. The band Quest Pistols Show also performed at the event. The family event gathered together EVRAZ Holding and Raspadskaya Coal Company

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 17, 2019. The concentration of chrysotile fibers in the soil next to FORES’s Tekhnokeramika in Shadrinsk, Sverdlovsk Region, stays well below the existing normative requirements, NIIProyektAsbest Asbestos Environmental Problems Center’s authorized lab’s test findings indicate. According to FORES’s press service, the testing of the samples was part of the extended environmental monitoring procedure that Tekhnokeramika is doing this year. The lab took the necessary samples on the outer end of the sanitary protection area next to the apartment building at 68