UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 14, 2019. A high-strength steel wire-manufacturing plant will be put up in Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Industrial Park, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘MMK, MMK METIZ, and MMK Industrial Park signed a cooperation agreement with OOO Terwingo during the 25th International Industrial Exhibition (Metal-Expo 2019); the agreement was signed by MMK’s Director Pavel Shilyayev, MMK METIZ’s Director Alexander Mukhin, MMK Industrial Park’s Director Vladimir Dremov, and Terwingo’s Director Mikhail Ushakov,’ the company says. Under the terms of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2019. SKB-Bank’s customers can now pay for their shopping using QR codes; the bank believes this payment method will prove very popular with customers. Now the online retail store Wildberries is one of the first Internet shopping outlets to introduce QR code payments. Customers of four Russian banks (including SKB-Bank) can now use this payment method there. According to the bank’s press service, you have to select QR code as the payment method when placing your order on the site and then scan the code using a smartphone app. Wildberries also intend to offer

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s official website proved one of the most frequently visited sites run by Russian banks in the third quarter of 2019. Based on bancrf.ru’s popularity rating, the UBRD’s website came thirteenth in the ranking, which is three positions higher than one ranking earlier. According to the rating, 1.43m people visited the website in the given period, with 97.83% of visitors based in Russia. According to bancrf.ru, the visitor data got collected from external services, so the number of clicks on the website

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s managers and lower-level employees all started using the updated version of RUK MPU App (available on both Android and iOS platforms), the company’s PR Department reports. The first version of the app got launched in 2018. At first, it could only be used to control the target/actual output figures for stoping, mining, and shipping work and the key performance parameters of the mine and the processing plants. A little later, the coalface performance and methane content monitoring functions got added as well.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2019. ChelPipe Group opened its stand at the 25th International Industrial Exhibition (Metal-Expo 2019); the exhibition is held on November 12-15 in Moscow, the company’s press service reports. ‘ChelPipe Group’s stand at Metal-Expo 2019 features pipes that give off light in the dark, serving as lighthouses that indicate the safest and surest way to a city of innovative industry, highly evolved culture, and sophisticated social life. The company also presents some samples of hi tech produce such as a casing pipe with a weld-on connector for oil wells found at