UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2016. EVRAZ Holding was a special partner at Case-in, an international engineering championship recently held at Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, the holding’s press service reports. The selective rounds of the championship began in different parts of the country in February 2016. In the Urals, the competition attracted students and graduates studying for their BSc, MSc, or PhDs in Ferrous/Non-Ferrous Metallurgy and Materials Science. They were presented with engineering cases based on actual production problems. The contestants’ applications were

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2016. Workers at Raspadskaya Mine (part of EVRAZ Holding) recently started working on the new longwall 5a-7-30 (over 2,800,000,000 kg of metallurgical coal), EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s PR Department reports. It is estimated that the miners will produce around 250,000,000 kg of coal from the longwall every month. As it happens, the unit 5а-7-30 got commissioned on schedule despite the challenging geological factors. First, a series of dismantling, assembly, and sinking jobs had to be performed, and more than 9,000 meters worth of mine working was needed. Preliminary

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2016. Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) was given a year’s worth of defense procurement tasks to meet and will be busy making special-purpose goods, the company’s acting Director-General Pavel Kolesnik said at his meeting with the plant’s trade union members. According to Kolesnik, Uraltransmash has been working stably and meeting its target production figures; the plant has quite a few orders from the Russian Defense Ministry for the production of special-purpose goods and 2S19M2 as well as for the repairs of 2S3M and other

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko, Deputy DG Viktor Voropayev, and head of Rosavtodor Roman Starovoyt met to talk about the ways to develop the Russian machine-building industry and import substitution of roa-building vehicles, the company press service reports. Ural Vagon Zavod is expected to start making up-to-date road vehicles on its premises. ‘This is one of Russia’s largest scientific and production facilities comprising metallurgical, railcar-assembling, mechanical assembly, repairs, tool-making and other divisions, which

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2016. SKB-Bank proved Russia’s 9th largest bank located outside of Moscow or Saint Petersburg in the four months of 2016, the bank’s press service refers to Kommersant.Dengi as stating. The bank was also rated 55th in terms of asset volume (over 122bn RUR as of May 1, 2016). Now only fifty-six of the country’s one hundred largest banks made any profit in the first quarter of the year, including SKB-Bank, with its 490m RUR in profits in January-April 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2016. First Freight Company’s Yekaterinburg subsidiary held a meeting on railway freight forwarding in the Urals given the shrinking fleet of railcars, the company press service reports. The meeting was attended by representatives of freight forwarders, local authorities, Sverdlovsk Railways, and First Freight Company’s Moscow management team. Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly Vice Chair Anatoly Sukhov said meetings like this served as an efficient discussion platform to talk about current problems and try to find solutions to them. Director of First Freight

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2016. The construction of the 230-megawatt Akademicheskaya Power Station is almost complete, T Plus Sverdlovsk division’s press service reports. For one, power supply has already been provided for the power start-up of the 110-kilowatt gas-insulated switch gear and a program has been activated for the start-up of the auxiliary transformer for balance-of-plant needs and voltage supply onto 6-kilowatt sections. The water treatment plant was launched the other day, which means the power station will now have a supply of desalinated water needed for the boiler

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2016. West Siberian Metallurgical Works/EVRAZ SZMK (a member enterprise of EVRAZ Holding) recently introduced a new, unique ammonia-free treatment for wire products, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s PR Department reports. The up-to-date gas-making units have recently been launched at the plant’s steel-rolling department. This equipment is currently unique to Russia’s metallurgical industry. The gas in used to prevent any dross on the thermally treated wire’s surface. It used to be obtained from ammonia but now the gas will be extracted from natural gas, which means the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2016. Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) hosted an all-Russian Artillery Weapons Development Prospects Conference, the company press service reports. The event was co-organized by the institute together with the Russian Academy of Rocket & Artillery Sciences and the Trade & Industry Ministry’s Weapons, Munitions & Special-Purpose Chemicals Industry Department. The agenda of the conference proved truly vital and attracted representatives of enterprises and organizations researching,