UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 25, 2019. Gorod Pervykh volunteers installed signposts and information stands on the path leading to Didinsky Tunnel, a popular local tourist attraction. There are now eight signs directing you to Mount Belaya and the tunnel’s western and eastern portals, and three stands with information about the landmarks. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, their member enterprise Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) supported the NGO Gorod Pervykh by covering the cost of the signposts and stands and of the volunteers’ transfer to the site. ‘These new navigation signs

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 25, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is going to host the Magnitogorsk section of Best Available Blast Furnace Techniques Conference coordinated by Russian Steel Association, the International Blast Furnace Workers’ Union, Metally Evrazii magazine, and Russia’s Industry & Trade Ministry. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the first part of the conference was held in Moscow yesterday. Russia’s leading metallurgical companies’ representatives and metallurgical industry experts looked into issues relating to the application of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 25, 2019. OOO FORES is going to support the fourth, and final, stage of an autocross championship in Sukhoi Log, Sverdlovsk Region, on October 26, 2019. The event takes place on the eve of the Motor Vehicle Industry Workers’ Day, FORES’s press service reports. ‘Several employees of FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch, as well as a number of other contestants from Sverdlovsk Region, Perm Territory, and Moscow Region, are going to compete in the race. The final performances of UAZ off-road vehicles and ZIL and GAZ trucks are bound to be quite spectacular. The racers will have

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 25, 2019. MegaFon Ural’s online store gets about a hundred orders placed by customers every day; the demand for earphones and hands free sets has been going up steadily in the last few months and is now 1.5 times higher than one year earlier, the telecom company’s press service reports. ‘Our Urals-based customers tend to send and receive voice messages increasingly more often and are now watching more videos than ever, and all of this 24/7. This naturally affects the way customer demand looks like. In addition to smartphones, earphones and hands free sets are now

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 25, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) completed the first stage of a large-scale program to introduce a single Oracle R12-based information system within the company, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The corporate information system (CIS) is now at work at MMK Group’s repair and maintenance unit MMK United Service Company and the leading Russian metal goods manufacturer MMK METIZ. The two companies started benefiting from the increased production process transparency and improved decision-making opportunities within the very first months

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 24, 2019. Head of Beam-Rolling Department at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) Dmitri Kavun received the Honored Rolling Mill Operator Badge during the 12th Rolling Mill Operators’ Congress in Vyksa, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center’s PR Department reports. The awards get distributed by the NGO Rolling Mill Operators’ Union. The badges are given to Russia’s best rolled metal goods industry workers who contributed greatly to the country’s development. Dmitri Kavun has been working at his department for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 24, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is offering its customers refinancing options at a reduced rate of 8.5% a year starting October 21. According to the bank’s website, you can apply for any amount between RUB 100,000 and RUB 1.5m, with the repayment period ranging from two to seven years. You can apply for as many loan refinancing programs as you like. Applicants who have their paycheck account with the UBRD can also apply for the options without any proof of income. The UBRD started refinancing loans issued by other banks as early

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 24, 2019. ChelPipe Group tested a new digital solution meant to improve the safety and quality of their pipe delivery process this month. This was part of the Group’s research/tech partnership with Gazprom Neft. According to ChelPipe’s press service, the solution ensures satellite-based monitoring of the order shipped to customer. A pilot shipment of 40,000 kg of pipes, fitted with control sensors made at ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ), got sent to Gazprom Neft’s oil deposits in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region – Yugra. ‘ChelPipe Group and

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 24, 2019. MMK Group’s MMK InformService is going to present its new e-document flow and RPA solutions at Open Innovations Forum 2019. ‘Skolkovo Center is hosting Moscow International Open Innovations 2019 Forum this month; this year’s program is a synthesis of three key components: technologies, economics, and humans,’ MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. During the forum, MMK InformService will be featuring its Atach e-document flow developments and robotic process automation solutions; the company’s RPA Competence & Innovations Center has designed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 24, 2019. The Federal Service for Supervision of Nature Resources (Rosprirodnadzor) started its scheduled audit of OOO FORES on October 23, 2019, the company’s press service reports. ‘There are over thirty auditors, including a number of officials from Nizhniy Tagil and experts from the certified Centre of Laboratory Analysis and Technical Metrology in Ural Federal District, to complete the inspection,’ the press service says. The federal state environmental surveillance audit is meant to determine whether the company manages to comply with the Russian

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 23, 2019. Ural Airlines’ Zhukovsky-Amsterdam-Zhukovsky flights are now on sale, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flights will get operated every Wednesday and Saturday starting October 30, 2019. Departure (Zhukovsky): 11:15 AM Arrival (Amsterdam): 12:45 PM Departure (Amsterdam): 1:45 PM Arrival (Zhukovsky): 7:05 PM Prices for Zhukovsky-Amsterdam flights start from RUB 3,720 (one way) and from RUB 8,549 (there and back). Prices for Amsterdam-Zhukovsky flights start from RUB 4,829 (one way) and from RUB 8,549 (there and back), all fees included. Tickets

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 23, 2019. First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk branch handled 477,000,000 kg of cargo in hopper railcars in January-September 2019, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 26%. According to First Freight Company’s Corporate Communications Department, the increase has to do with a more personalized approach to working with cargo owners and with an inflow of new customers. The overall shipments of cement, industrial raw stuffs and molding materials, and refractory goods went up the most, that is, by 48% (up to 310,000,000 kg), by nearly 300% (up to

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 23, 2019. ChelPipe Group and Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) held their 25th Coordination Council meeting on the two parties’ strategic cooperation projects. The meeting was attended by ChelPipe’s Purchases & Logistics Director Alexei Talnikov, MMK’s Deputy DG for Sales Sergey Ushakov, and employees of the two companies’ tech, production, and commercial departments. According to ChelPipe’s press service, MMK is the Group’s key metal goods supplier and has delivered over 60,000,000 kg of produce to ChelPipe Group in the nine months of 2019. ‘As two

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 23, 2019. New children’s playgrounds and workout sites opened in Kaltan and Malyshev Log, Kemerovo Region, EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department reports. A children’s playground is now available in Malyshev Log. Another playground and two workout sites opened in Kaltan. The playing appliances and workout equipment, as well as the urban improvement jobs, got funded by Raspadskaya Coal Company. ‘All the sports and children’s playgrounds are open to the general public. Locals of all ages can now practice with bars and street workout fixtures. All

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 23, 2019. The 25th BakuBuild 2019 Exhibition is opening in Azerbaijan’s capital today. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is taking part in the event. According to the company’s Information & PR Department, MMK joins the large-scale exhibition every year, since Azerbaijan’s market has always been an appealing one for MMK. Azerbaijan is one of MMK’s largest CIS markets. In 2016, the company supplied more than 130,000,000 kg of metal goods to the country. This year, MMK’s exhibition stand will feature a wide range of metal goods, mostly the ones for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2019. 80 young trees (30 Lombardy poplars, 30 Norway maple trees, and 20 fir trees) got planted in OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log sanitary protection zone, the company’s press service reports. ‘The poplars and some of the maple trees are meant to grow in front of the fence that separates the plant from the road leading to Fabrika. The fir trees got planted right next to these, and the remaining maples now grow along the mechanical shop: this is the north-facing part of the plant, where most of our buildings are actually located,’ the company says. According to head of

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 22, 2019. Gleb Gorbunov was appointed Director of First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk branch, the freight forwarder’s press service reports. Prior to this new appointment, Gorbunov worked as the company’s First Deputy Head of Shipping Department. ‘The branch’s former head Vladimir Terekhov decided to retire yet intends to support Gleb Gorbunov during his induction time as Advisor to Director of First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk Division,’ the press service says. Gleb Gorbunov graduated from Russian State Open Technical Railway University with a degree in Shipping

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2019. Ural Airlines will start operating its new, direct Moscow-London flight on December 20, 2019, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flights U6 745/746 will get operated four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport to London Stansted Airport. Passengers flying from Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk, Barnaul, and other locations can also get to London on a connecting flight via Moscow. ‘Everyone coming to London as a tourist sees a visit to Madame Tussauds Museum as a must, alongside with enjoying

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2019. Standard & Poor’s (S&P) affirmed the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s long- and short-term ratings at B-/B, with Stable rating outlook, the bank’s press service reports. According to the agency’s report, the rating outlook was given as ‘Stable’ to emphasize that S&P Global Ratings believe the UBRD will manage to retain its confident share of the market and customer base in the Urals in the next twelve months, maintain asset quality, and ensure stable liquidity and funding performance. It is also reported the bank has a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s new solution for the innovative hi tech process simulation of mine water filtering (combined with a virtual tour of the filtering facilities) won the grand prize as Best Exhibit at the 3d Siberian Environmental Forum. According to the company’s PR Department, VR technology is used to enable an ‘inspection’ of the filtering facilities at Uskovskaya Mine, and a mock-up made of environmentally friendly materials that demonstrates the stages of water filtering plus a 3D simulation on a touchscreen are used for the