UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 23, 2019. A solemn time capsule-laying ceremony took place on the construction site of Vysota Ice Academy in Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Region, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Alexei Teksler, ChelPipe Chair of the BOD Andrei Komarov, Mayor of Ozersk Evgeny Scherbakov, and Rosatom Corporation’s representatives all attended the event. Vysota Ice Academy, a public-private partnership project, is a multifunctional sports facility (total area: 10,000 m2) that will get commissioned in Ozersk in March 2021. The name stems from the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 23, 2019. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch keeps monitoring noise level at production departments, the company’s press service reports. ‘The Ural Job Safety & Environment Center’s certified laboratory confirmed on August 8 that the daytime and nighttime noise levels next to the company’s Sukhoi Log plant do not exceed the current legal limits. The lab experts also gauged the noise levels on the border of the plant’s sanitary protection area, next to apartment buildings, and in the nearby collective gardening locations after midnight and at midday. A specially

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 23, 2019. EVRAZ West Siberian Metallurgical Plant (ZSMK) can now make 130x130 mm section units, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘In order to start making the units, additional equipment had to get adjusted onto the plant’s CC machine,’ the company says. The new section units are meant to get exported to rolling plants in Southeast Asia, South America, Central America, and Africa. ‘The reconstruction of the plant’s continuous casting machine back in 2016 has meant we could master new steel-teeming techniques, increase the speed of

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 23, 2019. MMK Group directed RUB 1.04bn to charity and social welfare programs in the first half of 2019, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. The focus is on supporting seniors and children and on improving the Group’s workers’ health. MMK’s social welfare programs cater to all the population groups; for one, more than RUB 220m got allocated for covering the workers’ healthcare services; RUB 168.5m got allocated to co-pay for the workers and their families’ stays at health resorts; RUB 165m got allocated to support the elderly and people with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 23, 2019. Rosatom Corporation’s member enterprise Ural Electrochemical Combine expects to get RUB 22bn in revenues this year, the company’s Director-General Alexander Beloussov told reporters today. ‘Our expectation is to get more than RUB 22m in revenues this year,’ he said; Beloussov also explained this would be more or less comparable with last year’s figures. According to Beloussov, the combine’s net profit is expected to amount to RUB 5bn. Ural Electrochemical Combine was founded seventy years ago this year. The company has gradually evolved into the world’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 22, 2019. Russian business owners have been increasingly switching to non-cash transactions lately. According to the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s data, every one in three customers opening a settlement account with the bank applies for an all-purpose business card as well. ‘The card is the regular bank plastic one connected to your company settlement account. The business owners can use the card to pay for products and services, add money to the account, and have several extra cards issued for the employees, with spending limits for each,’ the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 22, 2019. OOO FORES keeps upgrading its facilities as part of the company’s environmental program. For one, the company replaced all the 300 sleeves of the spray-drying tower’s RIF 300 filter at Production Line 5 in Asbest branch, their press service says. According to FORES’s representatives, the filter was first installed and launched in 2018 as part of a production experiment. ‘Three spray-drying towers were involved in the experiment: the ones in our Asbest and Sukhoi Log branches and the one at our Shadrinsk-based partner company TekhnoKeramika. An original

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 22, 2019. The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) experts awarded Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works with a special certificate for the plant’s contribution to sustainable development of and environmental initiatives in Chelyabinsk Region, and for the plant’s success with the Energy Management at Industrial Enterprises Program, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. Now the UNIDO is a specialized agency within the United Nations, with a mission to promote and accelerate sustainable industrial development. The UNIDO Centre for

UrBC, Moscow, August 22, 2019. According to the company’s press service, MegaFon’s mobile Internet connection is the fastest in Russia at the moment, as iPhones.ru’s independent research findings indicate. The research relied on Speedtest, where 10,000+ users measured the connection speed directly from their mobile devices. ‘MegaFon users can have their data downloaded at the speed of 54 Mbps on average, which is 13.7 Mb faster than the second best result, and two times faster than the third best one,’ the company says. MegaFon’s mean response speed is 18.1 mbps, which is the best result

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 22, 2019. Students and alumni of ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program are going to take part in the blue-collar job championship WorldSkills, the Group’s press service reports. The championship takes place at Kazan Expo on August 22-27, 2019. ‘Student on ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program Ignatiy Yevdokimov is going to join in as part of Russia’s national team. Yevdokimov is competing in Industrial Mechanics & Assembly. Additionally, four ChelPipe Group representatives are

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 21, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s oilfield service division Rimera coordinated Rimeriada 2019, the company’s amateur Olympics, in Chelyabinsk on August 14-16. More than 250 employees joined in. Eight teams from Rimera’s member enterprises Alnas, Izhneftemash, the Group’s Moscow-based management company, and Rimera-Service’s branches in Nyagan, Noyabrsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Buguruslan, and Gubkinsky competed in the event. The amateur sportsmen and women competed in six different categories: mini football, volleyball, street-ball, track-and-field, darts, and ping pong. The first

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 21, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Metallurgical Plant (ZSMK) can now offer its foreign customers one more export item: the plant mastered the new rail type that meets the Korean standard KS R 9106:2006R. According to the company’s PR Department, the lightweight 50N rails are meant for subways; the plant is ready to produce these on an industrial scale. ‘EVRAZ ZSMK professionals designed a new, innovative roll-dressing technique and rail straightening/tempering technology for the product. The tests that took place at the plant’s R&D center proved that all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 21, 2019. FORES made some updates to the company’s Ethics and Worker Conduct Code, the company’s press service reports. Deputy Managing Director for Legal Issues at FORES Oleg Grigoriev says the company is trying to strike a balance between the workers’ rights and responsibilities in terms of how the employees may handle the information they get access to through work. ‘We made amendments to the respective sections of the code, setting strict limits as to how this information could be shared (including on social media) and to what extent the workers could

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 21, 2019. A time capsule will be placed on the construction site of Vysota Ice Academy (16A Kirov St, Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Region) in the course of a solemn ceremony at 4PM on August 21, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Alexei Teksler, ChelPipe Chair of the BOD Andrei Komarov, representatives of Rosatom’s Mayak Production Association, and Mayor of Ozersk Evgeny Scherbakov will all attend the ceremony. ChelPipe Group signed the agreement to build Vysota Ice Academy with Rosatom Corporation and Chelyabinsk Region Government during

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 21, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s 8th EVRAZ Cup football championship is now over in Kachkanar. EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The first prize went to Raspadskaya Coal Company’s team; EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise’s team and EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant’s team won silver and gold, respectively. ‘Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant’s team competed with EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s team for the third prize. The former’s Alexander Zakhars was the first to score in the game; it was also

UrBC, Moscow, August 20, 2019. Russian air travelers will now have to produce a phytosanitary certificate for any fruit, vegetables, seeds, or other agricultural flora items in their carry-on luggage (provided the total weight exceeds 5 kg). The new regulations came into effect on August 19 and will remain in place experimentally through 2022, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Nursery plants or cut flowers will require a certificate as well; you can still take three bouquets (up to 15 flowers each) on board certificate-free. If the certificate happens to be missing, the produce in question will get

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 20, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region-based employers owed their workers RUB 20.1 in delayed pay as of August 1, 2019, which exceeded the figures for one month earlier by 2.1%, Rosstat reports. In Russia on the whole, the arrears of wages amounted to RUB 2.7526bn in July, which was RUB 182.9m (7.1%) more than in June 2019. Wages and salaries were owed to 42,500 workers (under 1% of the workforce in the segments involved in Rosstat’s research). 46% of these workers are employed in the processing industry, 17% in the construction sector, 12% in the fossil extraction sector,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 20, 2019. Ural Airlines started paying compensations to passengers on Flight U6 178: the passenger plane had to perform an emergency landing in Moscow Region last week, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Ural Airlines started paying the compensations. Every passenger on the flight can get RUB 100,000,’ the press service says. According to the press service, the money will get paid within fourteen days of a passenger’s application into the bank account indicated by the applicant. ‘All the information relating to the compensation payments has been sent to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 20, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s social media experts created a digital game within the social network VKontakte. According to the bank’s press service, the new app helps users get acquainted with the UBRD’s new 240-day-grace-period credit card. ‘What we do is take the Dendy Generation’s 8-bit game nostalgia, mix in some cyberpunk and the zombie apocalypse (popular culture hits), season it all with clever product presentation and competition spirit, and feature the game winners on the UBRD page’s dynamic cover in VKontakte,’ says the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 20, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) supplied over 314,000,000 kg of metal goods to car makers in the first half of 2019, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 23%. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the plant sold 7.5% of its produce to car makers in the first six months of 2019 all in all. Sales to AvtoVAZ, UAZ, and Volkswagen rose considerably. Now MMK is the leading ferrous metal goods supplier for car factories and car part manufacturers. The plant supplies cold-rolled and hot-dip-galvanized rolled goods to all the