UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 27, 2019. The canteen of Pipe-Rolling Department 5 reopened after a series of renovations at ChelPipe Group’s member enterprise Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ), the company’s press service reports. The Group allocated more than RUB 15m to get the canteen renovated and fitted with modern appliances. The canteen underwent a major façade repair and now has a new entry; the rooms also got remodeled, with new electric power, water, and heating supply infrastructure in place, as well as air conditioning and ventilation systems. New furniture was purchased for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 27, 2019. OOO FORES’s Shadrinsk-based partner company TekhnoKeramika keeps implementing its extensive environmental monitoring system, FORES’s press service reports. ‘On August 10-20, the quality of air next to TekhnoKeramika’s sanitary protection area in Shadrinsk complied with all the existing regulations as usual, the Center for Lab Tests & Industrial Gauging (CLATI) in Ural Federal District’s research findings indicate,’ the company says. CLATI took daytime and nighttime air samples on August 12-14 as part of TekhnoKeramika’s extensive environmental

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 26, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) brought the interest rates on consumer loans down for the second time this summer, the bank’s press service reports. The changes involved the bank’s entire consumer loan product range and now apply to both existing customers and new applicants. The interest rates declined by over 4% overall. ‘There are many factors we take into account when shaping our product range; the market situation and the customers’ needs are two such factors. The Central Bank’s policy to reduce the key rate in the last few

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 26, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s member enterprises Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) got re-certified once again and proved their compliance with the international quality management, environmental safety, job safety, and industrial safety standards. According to the Group’s press service, SAI Global auditors looked into all the business processes at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant and confirmed that these processes all meet the quality management standard ISO 9001, the environmental management standard ISO 14001, and the job

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 26, 2019. Workers at LLC MMK-COAL are getting ready to celebrate Miner’s Day, MMK Information & PR Department reports. ‘The company consists of Chertinskaya-Koksovaya Mine, Kostromovskaya Mine, and Central Processing Plant. Now Kostromovskaya Mine is a relatively new one, as it got started on eleven years ago, whereas Chertinskaya-Koksovaya Mine is one the first mines to get set up in Kemerovo Region. Even so, the older mine keeps producing increasingly more coal and is, in fact, going through a renaissance. The mine underwent major tech overhaul and retooling

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 26, 2019. 740 employees of EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company received government, regional, and company awards on Miner’s Day, the company’s PR Department reports. ‘Solemn ceremonies took place in Novokuznetsk and Mezhdurechensk, where the miners got congratulated on their achievements, and reports were made on the company’s performance in the last eight months. Long-service employees and current workers who contributed to Raspadskaya Coal Company’s and Kuzbass coal industry’s development and winners of the company Best in Profession and Idea Factory

UrBC, Moscow, August 26, 2019. MegaFon is going to hold the very first 5G- and Cloud Gaming-supported cyber-sports championship; an actual fifth-generation base station will be used in the course of the competition, the telecom company’s press service reports. Dota 2 5G Championship by MegaFon is Russia’s first pilot project on the use of 5G and Cloud Gaming technologies in the digital entertainment industry. Winstrike Team, one of the strongest teams in the country, will take part in the event. The championship will take place at Moscow City as part of Dota2 The International 2019

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