The total refractory shapes production output of Kombinat Magnesite JSC for 2006 has come to 61,200 tons (an increase of 2.2% compared to 2005). The commercial powders output for the same period has increased by 6% and reached 123,800 tons. The total sales of refractory products came to 569.3 million RUR (5.6% more than in the first two months of 2005) in January and February 2006. The sales of commercial powders exceeded the same figures for 2005 by 7.4% and came to 284.4 million RUR. Witihin the first two months of 2006, the company increased its shipments of finished articles to Russian

Sverdlovsk Region RosPrirodNadsor Administration, the regional environmental surveillance service, has carried out 10 planned and 11 unplanned-for inspections following the citizens’ complaints within the last two months. According to their spokesperson, the inspections resulted in revealing 71 violations and 61 rectifying orders. 2 cases of illicit woodland occupation have also been detected in Shamarskiy Forestry. The damage is estimated to come to 461,548 RUR. The Administration cancelled two subsoil resource licenses issued to Svyatogor JSC, 2 licenses given to Nevyanskiy Quarry Ltd., and

Within February 2006, Magnitogrsky Metallurgichesky Kombinat JSC (Metallurgical Works of Magnitogorsk) produced 120,200 tons of ore, 790,400 tons of agglomerate, 432,200 tons of coke, 746,100 tons of cast iron and 888,900 tons of steel. The total metal production output in February 2006 came to 816,800 tons. The total production of Magnitogrsky Metallurgichesky Kombinat for the first two months of 2006 comprises 241,100 tons of ore, 1,752,800 tons of agglomerate, 918,200 tons of coke, 1,584,300 tons of cast iron and 1,873,500 tons of steel. The total metal production output in January and

Two more new companies (OMZ Metallurgy and OMZ Service MO) are to demerge from machine-building company OMZ Uralmash on July 1, 2006. According to the spokesperson for OMZ Uralmash, the new companies will develop their own market segments and do their own engineering as well as choose the sales policy. ‘This decision was made in order to build up our share of the market. Uralmashzavod now deals in its won projects as well as the ones ordered by our clients; since all the companies will still be run by the in-plant, it will perform all the orders they are to receive,’ the spokesperson said.

Uralliga Design Office CJSC sold its share holding to Industrial Safety Expertise CJSC of Chelyabinsk, reports the company’s spokesperson. The holding comprised 19% of the authorized capital in equities. The transaction is reported to have taken place on February 21, 2006.

S.M. Kirov Ust Katav Carriage Making Works (Chelyabinsk Region) produced the experimental version of 71-630 trams. According to Deputy GD Viktor Krasavin, the tram will be tested on rail in May or June 2006, then it’ll be re-examined and run in. ‘When assembling the tram, we were using, mostly, foreign parts; this is to be a large three-section carriage fit for 250 people,’ Mr Krasavin said. As for the supplies, the plant is thinking mainly of Moscow consumers as the capital’s Government has promised to buy 50 trams should the model withstand all the testing. Developing the tram cost the

Vladimir Nechepa was appointed Director of Russian Insurance Company RossGosStrakh in Sverdlovsk Region, reports the company’s spokesperson. Former Director Evgeniy Ostapenko (in office since 1999) left the company for another post. Mr Nechepa has up to this moment been the director of RossGosStrakh subsidiary in Vologda Region. His top priority now will have to be the significant improvement in the quality of the company’s services so as to sustain the fierce competition.

The Board of Zinc Works of Chelyabinsk JSC scheduled the general shareholder meeting for April 20, 2006. The points on the agenda include assessing the company’s financial success in 2005, the question of dividend payments, electing the Board members as well as the members of the inspection committee and the company’s auditors.

Niznetagilsky Metallurgichesky Kombinat JSC (NTMK, Metallurgical works of Nizhny Tagil), member of Evraz Group, has begun preparing its plants, workshops and hydroengineering units for the spring flood. According to NTMK PR-department, within March 2006 the company will clear all the railway ditches, melted snow water inlets and the branch lines leading to hydroengineering units. Operators of the company’s water intakes and the boiler shop staff involved in exploiting the company’s slime storage pond on the Tagil river flood-lands will be given special instructions. The company’s supply

The Works of Asha produced 491,418,000 worth of goods in February 2006, which is 94.3% against a year before, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative. The company produced 35,992 tons of rolled metal (8.6% more than in February 2005), 4666 kilos of amorphous tape, and 103,402 magnetic conductors (73% of the produce of February 2005). The export of thick-sheet rolled metal comprised 11,083 tons (a decrease of 4.6% compared to February 2005).

Ufaleynickel JSC has repaired a direct current furnace in its hydro-metallurgical shop. The repairs implied an inspection of the furnace transducer and electric holder and replacement of a thyristor and of 2 safety fuses. In addition, a complete replacement of the furnace lining and its hearth-level electrode were accomplished. Finally, the company completed a thorough renewal of the furnace body and its roof rings and inspected the furnace cooler elements, stop valve and pipelines. The information was reported to UrBC representative by the company’s PR-department.

Sverdlovsk Public Networks JSC has been losing up to 100,000 RUR due to theft, reports the company’s spokesperson. This forced the company to make theft prevention their top development priority. As the energy specialists report, there have been many cases of stealing their electricity, for instance, in Kachkanar, the town that made the company lose most of all. The greatest charge has been imposed on the owners of a car service garage, that is, 79 245.16 RUR.

Magnesite Industrial Complex (part of Magnesite Group) produced 31,200 tons of refractory goods (an increase of 4.3% compared to a year earlier), 59,700 tons of commercial powders (an increase of 8% compared to February 2005) in February 2006. The sales record for refractory goods comprised 291,600,000 RUR (7.5% growth), the same indicator for powders made up 139,900,000 RUR (11.7% more than 12 months before). The Complex shipped .6% more (24,300 tons) of refractory goods and 24.9% more of powders (45,400 tons) in February 2006, the spokesperson for Magnesite Group said to UrBC representative.

The audit of arrears of wages for two or more months at the number of Chelyabinsk enterprises revealed that UralTerminalMash CJSC of Miass, AutoLeasing Ltd. of Chelyabinsk, Café in Café International Ltd. of Zlatoust and Sis Telecom Ltd. of Chelyabinsk did particularly badly (arrears of 2,201,000, 290,800, 335,000 and 180,500 RUR, respectively). According to the State Labour Inspection of Chelyabinsk Region, most of the payment violations fall under Clauses 136 and 140 of Russian Labour Code. Thus, Dominique Ltd. did not pay the full salary when firing a worker. The fired worker of Signal

Mayor of Chelyabinsk Mikhail Yurevitch met the management of Moscow Company Metro Cash and Carry. Their German partner Metro Croup is thinking of setting up a wholesale trade center in Chelyabinsk, so the company’s management appealed to the city Administration asking for an allotment of 5 hectares of land. The investments are predicted to come to 18 to 20 million euro. ‘The issue is currently under consideration; the meeting can be classed as successful and we gave our principal consent to this project. For the time being, we have to obtain some data specifying the particular patch in a

Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya JSC has completed acquisition of 100% share holding of Sinara Handel GmbH authorized capital. According to the company’s PR-department, the acquisition was a part of the corporate business development strategy. Sinara Handel GmbH owns controlling stocks of two Romanian companies, namely, SC ARTROM SA (a tube-maker of Slatina) and SC C.S.R. SA (a metallurgical works of Resita). ARTROM SA specializes in production of seamless pipes for machine-building productions. Its maximal productive capacity is 110,000 tons of tubes. At the moment, the ARTROM SA is

Managing Director of Nizhniy Tagil Metallurgical Industrial Complex (part of Evraz Group, Sverdlovsk Region) Alexei Kushnarev has negotiated with the representatives of Fraunhofer Society for the advancement of applied research, reports the spokesperson for Evraz Group. The Society deals in developing the non-destructive ways of production control and design and installment of control instrumentation. The Complex has been cooperating with the Fraunhofer Society for a few years; thus, the German executives delivered the ultrasound control line capable of testing a wheel according to 13

On March 3, 2006, Deputy Head of State Environmental Inspection (Rosprirodnadzor) Oleg Mitvol ordered to look into the circumstances of Sverdlovsk Regional Department of Rosprirodnadzor entering into a contract with the administration of Park-House Trade Center in Yekaterinburg. Acting under the contract, Sverdlovsk Regional Department of Rosprirodnadzor estimated the total ecological damage caused by the building of the trade center at 10 million RUR. During the estimation, Rosprirodnadzor had found that the building of the trade center entailed some violations of environmental regulations.

N.A. Semikhatov Scientific Production Association of Yekaterinburg and V.P. Makeev design office of Miass, Chelyabinsk Region, have been negotiating on the order to redesign some ballistic missiles into carrier rockets. The latter are being asked for by the countries that are planning to use them for launching their satellites from the submarines. Yekaterinburg Company has been developing the special programs that allow re-programming of the rocket flying path, which reduces the cost of near-earth orbit launching, It appears to be more profitable than using the new format carriers and.

As the spokesperson for Magnesite Group said to UrBC representative, the Complex has been dealing in ferrous magnesia flux production, and the output has been increasing regularly (112,4 tons in 2002 turning to 6,000 tons in 2006). Since the grainy caustic magnesite and the magnesia flux are in greatest demand at the moment, the Complex is going to heavily invest in the reconstruction of the roller furnace that has been idle for eight years. The company’s grinding factory is its largest department with 600 employees that fully provides the technological shops with ground and fortified