UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 25, 2019. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch coordinated a job skills contest for its electrical/gas welders this month; eight employees took part in the competition, FORES’s press service reports. ‘The pre-New-Year job skills contest on December 19 was the first round of the Best in Profession Contest FORES holds this year. Asbest Polytechnic acted as the plant’s partner in the organization of the event,’ the press service says. ‘The goal is to show that job skills are still quite necessary and valuable. These contests help bring back the respect for blue-collar jobs

UrBC, Moscow, December 25, 2019. A driverless KamAZ truck controlled through a 5G communication network was presented at an industrial site in Russia for the first time this month: the vehicle covered a 1,000-meter distance from the loading point to the unloading point at Listvyazhnaya Mine in Kuzbass; the truck was controlled through MegaFon’s 5G base station, the telecom company’s press service reports. Following the experiment, a video conference call to Moscow took place via Russia’s first 5G network to the east of the Urals that is now at work at Listvyazhnaya Mine. The call connecting

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 25, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was featured in WWF Russia’s and National Rating Agency’s rating of the country’s top ten environmentally responsible companies for 2019, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘WWF Russia has been carrying its environmental ratings on a yearly basis since 2017 in order to help reduce environmental impact and promote responsible business practices in Russia. The rating is based on the assessment of the following three criteria: environmental management, environmental impact, and a company’s openness to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 25, 2019. You can now book tickets for Ural Airlines’ Moscow-Larnaca-Moscow flights at a discount, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘You can use our special offer now: prices for Moscow-Larnaca-Moscow and Larnaca-Moscow-Larnaca flights start from RUB 8,000/€115 (there and back, all fees included, prices subject to change depending on the exchange rate),’ the press service says. The price offer only applies to round trip bookings. The sale opens on December 24, 2019 on a first come, first served basis. The flights will get operated on January 8-March 28,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 25, 2019. ChelPipe Group supplied more than 9,000,000 kg of large-diameter pipes (LDPs), 121 pipe bends, and 20 pipeline stamp-welded pipeline parts for the construction of Baltic Connector Pipeline in Estonia, the Group’s press service reports. ‘By order of the customer - a consortium comprising the Estonian companies EG Ehitus and Scanweld, the Group’s member enterprises Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, ETERNO, and Pipeline Connecting Bends (SOT) produced a series of LDPs (diameter: 711 mm; steel grade: L415ME, with a three-layer outer coating), hot-bent bends