UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 1, 2019. A number of Chelyabinsk Region’s enterprises and social welfare organizations switched to Rosatom’s Lean Manufacturing standards this year, Southern Urals State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company (ChelTV) reports. Six months ago, local transport operators started working in compliance with Rosatom’s standards. As a result, the time it takes to get a vehicle repaired went down by 50%, which means passengers don’t have to wait as long for their trams and trolley-buses to arrive. ‘We developed a set of so-called check lists for repair mechanics to go over

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2019. Kortros Group’s President Veniamin Golubitsky gave a talk on the District Akademicheskiy Comprehensive Urban Development Project in Yekaterinburg during the International 100+ Forum Russia this week. ‘We started by collecting feedback from District Akademicheskiy’s potential residents. This was in 2006. Everything was different in terms of technologies and digitization back then. Yekaterinburg locals said they saw safety as extremely important. This concern was taken into account when the tech specifications got elaborated. As a result, the security

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 1, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was among the winners of the All-Russian Competitive Purchases Leader Award in Developing Team’s Potential, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The final round of the annual competition took place in Moscow in late October. This year, 220 companies from all over Russia submitted their applications to compete. In the end, 14 companies won the Competitive Purchases Leader Award in various categories. MMK made a presentation on category management in its Purchases Department in 2019. The idea is to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2019. People buying homes in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy will be able to use a one-stop multifunctional center for state and municipal services. The district developer RSG-Akademicheskoye has already introduced an electronic sign-up service and a mortgage center as part of the project, Deputy Director-General for Marketing & Sales at RSG-Akademicheskoye Pavel Petrichenko said at the International 100+ Forum Russia on October 30, 2019. ‘The market currently offers a wide range of options for your mortgage application to get processed. We had

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2019. ChelPipe Group took part in the 8th International GTS 2019 Conference this month, the company’s press service reports. ChelPipe Group presented its own developments in the field of pipe manufacturing that are used for pipelines operated in complicated environments. ‘The Group’s representatives gave a talk on the company’s own multiple-pass welding technology, developed within the framework of the Nord Stream 2 Project. The technology is unique in that a specific type of arc welding is used to make the pipe weld highly durable and to make the pipes