UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Two types of reinforcing bars made at EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) won awards at Russia’s 100 Best Goods Contest, the company’s PR Department reports. Reinforcing bar V500S won in Russia’s 100 Best Goods and in Kuzbass’s Best Products & Services. The rebars are meant for reinforcing concrete-steel structures. The rebars’ outstanding mechanical properties and chemical composition make them suitable for welding, for making metal mesh, and for applying inside high-rise building structures. Reinforcing bar

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 25, 2019. First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk branch handled 27% more hopper railcar shipments in the ten months of 2019 than in the ten months of 2018 (526,000,000 kg all in all), First Freight Company’s press service reports. ‘The branch’s employees work closely with our parters, including EuroCement Group, South Ural Mining & Processing Company, Dyckerhoff Korkino Cement, and Vishnevogorsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise. Besides, this year we resumed our partnership with MMK Group’s LLC MCRW and found new customers such as Volgograd Ceramics Plant

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch keeps working to improve its energy efficiency, the plant’s Senior Energy Engineer Alexei Yakunin said in his interview to Asbestovsky Rabochiy. ‘Energy efficiency and resource saving are the two things the Senior Energy Engineer’s Department is in charge of. On the one hand, we try to build up on our power facilities. We only used to rely on a single power substation, but an additional line was introduced later, alongside with major reconstruction and upgrades, which was necessary to ensure sufficient power supply for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) intends to direct RUB 1.66 billion out of its net profit in the nine months of 2019, as well as a portion of undistributed net profit from the previous years (RUB 1.33 billion), to interim dividend payments. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, the decision was made by the company’s Board of Directors. It was suggested that the dividends should amount to RUB 5.45 per ordinary share for January-September 2019 and to RUB 4.37 for the previous years’s dividends. ‘ChelPipe’s financial performance in the nine

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Yekaterinburg Council is currently looking for a contractor to build a school in District Akademicheskiy’s Quarter 10, a special website on government purchases says. The contractor will have to design the building information model and the interior solutions, produce the drawings of the building, and put up a secondary school in Quarter 10. The school must be big enough for 1,100 students. The building must comprise a hall with a waiting room, a cloakroom, recreation areas, a cafeteria hall, an auditorium, a gym, and a library/information center.