UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 10, 2020. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) started making crane rails of the KR140 variety. This means the plant’s rail and beam department now manufactures all five types of crane rails from KR70 to KR140, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. In order to master the new rail type, the plant had to purchase new rollers and to develop and produce new sweep samples and designs. This rail variety is difficult to make because of its size and weight (150 kg per running meter). KR140 rails can work for large-size

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 10, 2020. OOO FORES put more than 160 different job safety and working conditions improvement measures into the current Collective Agreement; the list for the year 2020 covers a whole range of projects from a special assessment of working conditions to providing workers with individual protective gear to paying for the employees’ swimming pool sessions to buying onions and garlic for wellness purposes. The company intends to spend more than RUB 112m for the purpose (compared with RUB 105m in 2019), FORES’s press service reports. ‘Under the labor law and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 10, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya-Koksovaya Mine launched its first large-diameter well meant for better airing of mine tunnels. According to EVRAZ Holding’s PR Department, Raspadskaya Coal Company first used a new drilling technology involving Robbins 73RH raiseboring rig at Yerunakovskaya VIII Mine about a year ago. ‘This equipment hadn’t ever been used at Russia’s coal-mining companies at the time. The rest of the world, however, knows this to be some of the safest and the most efficient ways of making large-diameter wells,’ the

UrBC, Moscow, February 10, 2020. Finance analysts believe the number of banks operating on the Russian market will keep diminishing, even though the process will slow down against last year. The weaker market players will be leaving mostly due to performing questionable transactions (50% of banks that lost their licenses in 2019 did so for this exact reason). According to Kommersant, rating agencies claim the Central Bank will now be revoking the licenses of banks outside of the national top hundred list. Based on the CBR’s data, there were 396 banks with valid licenses operating in Russia as

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 10, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) holds RPA Connect 4.0 Conference on robotic process automation in production and industrial sectors on February 27-28, 2020, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘The conference participants will learn about the RPA potential with MMK’s active projects serving as examples. Talks will be given by speakers from Russian and international companies, IT and digitalization leaders that rely on RPA. The forum will dwell on the practical aspects of applying robotic process automation to various