UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 21, 2017. Rosatom State Corporation intends to focus on making Cobalt 60, a radioactive isotope used in cancer treatment, at Sverdlovsk Region’s Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station, the company press service reports. The plan is to start producing the isotope using the power station’s Power Generating Unit 4 BH 800 reactor. The radioactive cobalt variety (Co 60) enjoys stable demand on both the national and the international markets. The isotope is used for food sterilization and disinfection of medical appliances and materials as well as a grain and vegetable

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 21, 2017. ChTPZ Group and Sberbank Corporate University coordinated a conference called The Power of White Metallurgy this month, the Group’s press service reports. The conference was held on Sberbank Corporate University campus, with over fifty ChTPZ Group trainers (business managers and corporate workshop developers) attending. ‘Sberbank experts used the two-day conference slots to conduct group workshops on advanced visualization methods and audience interaction techniques for the Group’s corporate trainers,’ the press service says. Sberbank Corporate University

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 21, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s workout championship is in full progress in Chelyabinsk Region, the company press service reports. ‘The selection rounds of the championship will take place at the new workout sites and parks that Russian Copper Company got set up in Chelyabinsk Region towns of Karabash, Korkino, Pervomayskiy, Kyshtym, and Chelyabinsk this year. There will be eight selection rounds all in all, followed by finals in Chelyabinsk on Town Day (September 10). Prize-winning challenges and workshops for visitors to the show will be offered during the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 21, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based farmers’ poultry output declined by 6.4% in April 2017 compared with April 2016, Sverdlovskstat reports. The number of head of cattle declined by 1.3% in July 2017, that of pigs and goats/sheep rose by 0.2% and 1.2%, respectively. The dairy foods output rose by 4.3% in January-July 2017 compared with one year previously, while egg production rose by 3.1%.

UrBC, Moscow, August 21, 2017. Russians’ factual disposable incomes declined by 0.9% in July 2017 compared with one year earlier, Rosstat reports. The figures for January-July 2017 were also 1.4% lower than in January-July 2016. At the same time, people’s actual pay rose by 4.6% last month against one month previously and by 3% against the start of the year, according to Rosstat.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2017. EVRAZ West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) competed the overhaul of their Blast Furnace 2. This is expected to increase the furnace productivity, ensure longer time between repairs, and reduce the furnace’s environmental impact. EVRAZ Holding spent some 1bn RUR on the overhaul, the company press service reports. ‘We had the furnace casing partially replaced, the cooling units fully reconstructed, and the firebrick lining of the furnace, the tuyere area, and the tunnel renovated. The furnace-charging appliances were repaired as well. All

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2017. #Goodneighbors Festival will take place in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District on Town Day on August 19, RSG Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. This annual event will be held at a special site at the intersection of Akademik Sakharov St and Wilhelm de Gennin St. A show, a food court, a large play area, and some musical performances will be there for the visitors from 12 PM to 7 PM. ‘Two headliners, the legendary Trubetskoy and Nogu Svelo! are invited to perform on the main stage. The bands will start performing at 4 PM so that all those willing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2017. Pipe Metallurgical Company’s TMK Neftegazservis offered its professional support during the pay-out of pipes at Vankorskoye, Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye, Urengoyskoye, and Astrakhanskoye Deposits 112 times in the first seven months of 2017. So far, every one in eight pay-out of pipes with TMK UP premium threaded joints has been supervised by the company experts. According to Pipe Metallurgical Company’s press service, their engineering support covers personnel training on how to use the pipes properly, inspection of the pipe string once its components have been

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region’s industrial production index rose by 4% in January-July 2017 compared with one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. The IPI went up by 4.3% in the processing sector and by 9.6% in the sector for the production and distribution of electric power, natural gas, and steam. The fossils extraction industry’s index declined by 9.6%. Sverdlovsk Region’s IPI for July 2017 was 0.5% lower than in June 2017 and 2.5% higher than in July 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based building businesses’ accumulated turnover amounted to 51.471m RUR in January-July 2017, which was 19.4% less than one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. The turnover of metal goods manufacturers declined by 9.1% in the first seven months of the year, that of beverage producers by 8.2%, that of printed materials by 6.7%, that of leather goods manufacturers by 3.4%, and that of textile makers by 1.8%.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 16, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s workout championship started with the first, selective round in Chelyabinsk Region on August 11, the company press service reports. Fifteen sportsmen and women, both professionals and amateurs, gathered together at a workout site in Karabash. ‘The contestants competed in Freestyle, Triathlon, and Biathlon. Sports players in the 12-17 age group used no extra appliances in triathlon and biathlon challenges, while those over 18 had to use extra weights. Semen Barmin proved Karabash’s No.1 in Junior Freestyle, Timur Titovich won the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Project’s coordinators launched ProfMetalClub, a job counseling project, at Gagarinsky Sports Camp in Pervouralsk. ‘The project is aimed for summer campers aged 11 to 16. This is part of the Ural Engineering School, a program supported by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region,’ the Group’s press service reports. The goal is to help attending children and teenagers develop their engineering and design-oriented thinking, technical skills, and logic and master teamwork. Five fifty-people teams will have two

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems is going to install 622 multi-frequency vibration dampers at the electric mains in Yugra’s Nizhnevartovsk District, FGC UES Western Siberia’s PR Department reports. ‘Our power engineers will install 228 vibration suppressors at the 220-kilowatt Belozernaya-Kompressornaya Main in August alone. These new appliances, made in Russia, have a wider vibration-suppressing frequency range and spiral reinforcement-type fittings. This means the mains are less likely to get damaged by a strong wind,’ the department

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. Sinara Transport Machines’ Lyudinovsky Locomotive Plant coordinated a technical meeting on the plant’s TEM14 loco upgrade potential. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the meeting was attended by Russian Railways’ locomotive operators from Northern, Moscow, Volga, South-Eastern, and Sverdlovsk Railways, since two-diesel, electric transmission locomotive shunters of the TEM14 type are particularly popular in these parts of the country. ‘An experimental TEM14 sample loco was made at the plant in July 2011; this make has been produced on a serial

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. 866,700 m2 worth of new housing got commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in January-July 2017, which was 14.2% less than one year previously, Sverdlovskstat reports. 153,800 m2 worth of new housing got commissioned in the month of July alone, which, in fact, exceeds the figures for July 2016 by 1.7 times. 13.2% of this new housing (59,200 m2) fall into the private houses segment.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2017. Miners started working on new Long-Face 26-18 bis at EVRAZ Yesaulskaya Mine, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The working area in question is estimated to contain 820,000,000 kg of valuable Zh coking coal. 3km worth of excavation work had to be done first, as had a number of assembly jobs and capital mining operations. The miners are now operating at more than 400 meters below the ground; their safety is ensured with the help of gas-trapping facilities that divert the excess gas into the rock cavity. ‘Oleg Basmanov’s team

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2017. A new wire-winding mill was recently launched at EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK), EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. ‘This new Italian equipment is used to wind large rolls of wire that are 1,000 to 2,500 kg heavy into smaller ones (100 to 150 kg each), which is much more consumer-friendly. The smaller coils are easier to transport and unload, and no special equipment is needed to unwind them,’ the Center says. The launch of this new mill signifies yet another important stage in the plant’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s customers had over 5,800 credit cards issued to them in the first half of the year, which is nearly four times more than in the first six months of 2016, the bank’s press service reports. According to the bank’s Credit Cards Management Director Svetlana Davydova, better terms the bank is currently offering is one reason for this dramatic increase in demand. ‘We introduced many more options this year, so that our customers can actually benefit financially from using borrowed funds. For one, the credit

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 15, 2017. Keramik, a ceramics plant operated by MMK Group’s Stroykompleks, is now active once again, MMK Information & PR Department reports. ‘The plant had to be shut down temporarily between November 2016 and August 2017 because of the plummeting demand for non-load-bearing clay tiles and bricks that are used for housing construction. Shortly before the stoppage, the plant started making solid bricks that can be used both in housing construction and industrial construction. The plant also had its Siemens automated control system replaced with a newer version

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2017. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development coordinated a foundation-laying ceremony at Yekaterinburg EXPO’s future Congress Center on the eve of Builder’s Day. The construction of the center is part of the contract Sinara Development signed with Ural Exhibition Center, the company press service reports. Sinara Development’s Director-General Timur Ufimtsev and the site workers tossed some coins into the foundation base, and then builders poured the first portion of concrete over it. The construction site has been prepared for action by now. Over ten special-purpose