UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 18, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) launched its first polymeric coating unit fifteen years ago this month and its second polymeric coating unit ten years ago this month, the company’s press service reports. ‘MMK is one of Russia’s largest manufacturers of rolled metal goods with polymeric coatings. The company sold 559,000,000 kg of this produce last year alone, with 90% of it (500,000,000 kg) going to customers on the home market. We saw a large increase in sales after Lysva Metallurgical Plant joined MMK Group in 2017,’ the press service says. The

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 18, 2019. According to the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD), a mortgage loan issued in Chelyabinsk Region comes to RUB 1.5m on average (judging by the data of Chelyabinsk Region-based borrowers with mortgages as of June 1, 2019). ‘It turns out that a Chelyabinsk Region-based successful mortgage applicant is, on average, 39 years old. Interestingly, there are slightly more female applicants than male ones (the ratio is 52: 48). People with families take out mortgage loans more often than other categories of applicants, and their mortgages are on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 18, 2019. Russian hockey player, Kontinental Hockey League HC CSKA goalkeeper, Russia’s Honored Master of Sports Ilya Sorokin and his father Igor Sorokin paid a visit to EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine. The sports player took the KHL Gagarin Cup with him on this trip, and went down into the mine with it, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s press service reports. ‘It is a custom with the KHL players that the Gagarin Cup winners take their trophy with them to their native towns. Ilya Sorokin was born in Novokuznetsk and raised in Mezhdurechensk, where he first started playing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 18, 2019. SKB online users can now pay their bills electronically with a QR code: this option is now available for housing bills, taxes, fines, and tuition fees, SKB-Bank’s press service reports. ‘You can now make a payment to the account of any company that can make an invoice with a QR code on it. The payment procedure itself is very simple: within your SKB Online app, you go to Payments and Transfers, select QR Code, and scan the code on the invoice with your smartphone camera. Everything will get uploaded into the system automatically, you’ll only need to confirm

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 18, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s warehouse is going to supply some 5,000,000 kg of pipes for heating infrastructure repairs in time for the next heating season, the company’s press service reports. Pipes made at the Group’s member enterprises Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) will be used in the summer repair campaigns of Russia’s largest energy companies, including Siberian Generating Company (SibGenCo), TeploEnergo, T-Plus, Bashkir Generation Company, and Moscow United Energy Company (MOEK). ChelPipe Group’s warehouse started