UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s Urals-based member enterprises keep working to make their employees’ working conditions safer in times of the novel coronavirus, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘Over a thousand employees who are not involved in our continuous production cycle now work from home; the rest keep working as usual. We make every effort to make the working conditions as safe as possible for employees in the 55-60 age group. People work from home where possible, and all workers over the age of 65 are only allowed to work from home,’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2020. ChelPipe Group supplied more than 60,000,000 kg of large-diameter pipes for the construction of Gazprom’s pipeline connecting Harasaveysky Field with Bovanekovo Field. The LDPs with corrosion-resistant outer coating and slick inner coating (diameter: 1,420 mm; layer thickness: 27.7 mm and 33.4 mm; steel grade: K65) have been manufactured at ChelPipe Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant. The company reports the pipes have enhanced strength and plasticity parameters, which means they can be used in challenging climatic conditions and in temperatures as low

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 7, 2020. Starting this year, MMK Group’s MMK-METIZ will be celebrating its launch date on April 5 rather than October 1, the company’s Director Alexander Mukhin says. ‘Magnitogorsk’s first metal goods plant started operating in September 1941, when evacuated equipment from metal goods manufacturing plants arrived from six Soviet cities. The appliances were housed within two industrial sites, which then evolved into two plants: a metal goods/metallurgical one and a calibrating one. On April 5, 1942, People’s Commissar for Ferrous Metallurgy in the USSR I.F. Tevosyan

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2020. Residents of Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy supported the doctors and nurses fighting the spread of COVID-19 with a special round of applause last weekend, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s press service reports. ‘At the end of last week, District Akademicheskiy activists started exchanging personal and group messages, calling for support of medical workers. The locals can’t actually get together because of the self-isolation regulations, so it was decided to cheer the doctors with thank-yous shouted from balconies and out of windows at a certain

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2020. ChelPipe Group installed advanced automatic thermal cameras on site as part of its program to maintain workers’ health and safety and reduce the risks of COVID-19 spreading further. Nine thermal cameras got insulted at the Group’s member enterprise Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) and four cameras arrived at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe). The appliances can take the temperature of several people simultaneously, which makes it possible to ensure social distancing at entry checkpoints. Additionally, special navigation signs and markings have been