Russian Copper Company CJSC has been putting up the third electrolysis shop at Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant CJSC. Upon the completion of the project, the plant will produce 1.8 times more of cathode copper (up to 220,000 tons a year). The project requires $70m altogether, with the first section of the shop with the throughput of 50,000 tons a year will be launched in May 2007; the whole shop will be put into operation at the end of 2007. Thus the production capacity of Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant will rise by 2.7 times (from 82,000 tons to 220,000 tons of cathode copper annually)

Following the decision of the company’s Board made on September 4, 2006, the extraordinary general meeting of VSMPO AVISMA Corporation has been scheduled for 2.15 PM on November 7, 2006. The meeting will take place in the town of Verkhnyaa Salda, Sverdlovsk Region (the assembly hall of the local Book Palace, 12 Parkovaya St.). Among the points on the agenda are: early termination of the Board Members’ powers and electing the new Board of Directors. The federal law on joint-stock companies, supported by the corporate Charter, states that shareholders possessing the total of no less than 2% of

The repair-and-renewal operations at the site of a fallen highway bridge were completed during the day yesterday. The railways at Sverdlovsk-Passazhirskiy-Shartash haul were cleared from the ferroconcrete blocs, and the first operational train used this section of TransSiberian main line at 2.50 PM Moscow time. According to the estimates of Sverdlovsk Region Railways, the damage done to Russian Railways amounted to approximately 40 to 50 million RUR. Since the highway bridge fell upon the railways, 111 freight trains and 104 passenger trains had to be delayed. While the teams of workers were

General Director of RosEnergoAtom Sergey Obozov visited Beloyarskaya power plant on September 5, 2006. This visit had been planned for and was not connected with any extraordinary issues. Mr Obozov was appointed acting General Director of RosEnergoAtom in March 2006 and has already visited all of Russia’s nuclear power plants since. Yet Beloyarskaya became the first plant to receive Mr Obozov in the capacity of GD proper after he won the application contest on Septermber 1, 2006. Mr Obozov visited BN-800, the power generating unit currently under construction, and the operating BN-600. He

The technicians of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise JSC (part of Evraz Group) started renovating the section of wet magnetic separation with installing the separators; the new Cavex Warman washing cyclones, Sandvik breakers (made in Sweden) and Derriсk tumblers (made in the U.S.) will be added to the rest of the equipment as well. This renovation has been scheduled within the framework of the company’s development program up to 2015; the program gives top priority to modernizing the processing facilities, which will begin with upgrading the equipment of Vysokogorskaya and

Verkhnetagilskaya power plant located in Sverdlovsk Region is currently under reconstruction. The main challenge facing the workers lies in not being able to put the power generating units out of operation even for a while, as it will be keenly felt by the electricity consumers. The technicalities connected with putting up the new power-generating unit will be discussed at a special meeting, to be attended by the representatives of regional power generating companies and of the All-Russian Institute of Heating Technologies. The new unit might be intoruduced some time after the year 2010; the

Within the first half of 2006, the average pay of an employee of Ural Turbine Works CJSC (part of Renova) has gone up by over 5% (from 10,800 to 11,400 RUR). Following the collective agreement, the works spent 2 million RUR on occupational safety, including 430,000 RUR spent on special foods. The enterprise invested over 1.8 million in clothing, shoes and personal protective equipment. Approximately 300,000 RUR were allotted to workers in the form of subsidies and 200,000 RUR were spent on summer holidays for the employees’ children. All these expenditures occasioned by the collective

Vanadium Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise of Kachkanar JSC (part of Evraz Group) is going to hold the employee emergency training month. This is done following the order of Svedlovsk Region Government. According to the plan, the company will conduct a number of theme seminars devoted to civil defense in September. The corporate departments will have to install information boards providing tips of emergency prevention and handling. Besides, some workshops will be conducted on practical application of special equipment, first-aid skills, and rescue operations, reports the spokesperson for

Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) summed up the results of its activity in August 2006. Almost all of the company’s departments did impressively well. Magnetitovaya and Yuzhnaya mines were the best among the production shops: they exceeded the plan by 6% and 2%, respectively. Estyuninskaya mine and the open pit operated stably. The enterprise managed to meet the increased demand of refractory goods producers for unusually fractioned dunite and hit the target figures for extraction and shipping of limestone. Vysokogorskiy also accomplished all of the

Since the beginning of the year, Uraltrac Ltd. has produced 3,665,480,000 RUR worth of commodity goods, which amounts to 102.6% of the target figures. The company has produced 1150 engineer vehicles (99.1% of the planned amount) worth 2,142,429,000 RUR including 171 tractors, 64 pipe-laying cranes, and 897 ripper-dozer units throughout January to August 2006. The total shipments came to 4,310,860,000 RUR in money terms (93.9% of the target figures). The company sold 1171 engineer vehicles worth 2,549,474,000 RUR, including 1074 tractors and T-10-based units and 61 ripper-dozer units. The

Asha Metallurgical Works JSC has produced 4,645,819,000 RUR worth of commodity goods throughout January to August 2006, which exceeds the figures for the eight months of 2005 by 5.1%. Its steel and rolled metal output came to 424,982 tons (3.9% better than in 2005) and 308,174 tons (an increase of 6.2%), respectively. The works produced 47,250.96 kilograms of amorphous tape, which is 45% more than a year earlier, and 1,103,445 magnetic conductors, which exceeds the figures for the year 2005 by 14.5%, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative.

ChelyabEnergo JSC, the regional energy and electricity supplier, acquired the new 100-kilowatt portable diesel generator for its subsidiary Chelyabinsk Electrical Networks. According to the spokesperson for ChelyabEnergo, the generator is meant for self-contained electricity supply to the consumers based on special agreements or in case of power cuts, including the ones caused by very low temperatures outside. The capacity of the generator allows for a few hours of backup power supply to such places as hospitals, kindergartens and the like, and blocks of flats. The company has already set up

Four more enterprises allowed Yekaterinburg Electrical Network Company to limit their supplies of electricity in case one of the power transformers breaks down during the most strenuous winter days, reports the spokesperson for the Company. These are N.A. Semikhatov Scientific Production Association, UralElastoTekhnika CJSC, the local oil and mayonnaise producing company, and ElectroTrans CJSC. Therefore, the electricity supplier now has the consent of 12 companies that use the most heavily loaded substations. One of these substations known as Trud experienced a major breakdown of a power

A 100 square meter-patch of concrete roof fell down at No. 2 shop of Kasli Machine Building Plant (Chelyabinsk Region) due to violation of occupational safety provisions when dismantling metalwork on September 1, 2006. The debris hit and badly damaged a GAZ-66 truck with one person inside, so nine firefighters from Kasli district, six rescuers from Snezhinsk, three rescuers from Ozersk, and seven rescue rangers from Kystym (twenty-five people and seven vehicles altogether) were immediately sent to save the life of the person buried alive under the wrecks of the roof. The 27-year-old victim

A group of inspectors from the Losses Department of Sverdlovsk Region Communal Facilities JSC conducted five raids in the town of Kachkanar and revealed 15 instances of electricity theft that resulted in 60,000 RUR of collected debt, reports the company’s spokesperson. The company recorded 7 instances of theft by natural persons and 8 instances of theft by legal entities last month. For example, Consul, the local shop, removed the official seal of the supplier on the meter, Fashion (another shop) and Rhodonite Ltd. had no functioning meters at all, the meter in a fruit kiosk had a broken

The Board of SverdlovEnergo JSC declared the interest rate to be paid on its bonds: it came to 26.18 million RUR, with a dividend of 52.36 RUR per bond. The total amount actually paid so far has come to 114,047,627 RUR.

In August 2006, Uraltrac Ltd. produced 542.99m RUR worth of commodity goods, which amounts to 98.6% of the target figures. Within the past month, the company produced 189 engineer vehicles worth 355.8m RUR including 25 tractors, 10 pipe-laying cranes, and 154 ripper-dozer units. The total shipments came to 662.61m RUR in money terms (94.4% of the target figures). The company sold 185 engineer vehicles worth 410.981m RUR, including 173 tractors and T-10-based units and 10 ripper-dozer units. The information was reported to UrBC representative by Uraltrac PR-department.

The public prosecution authorities of Sverdlovsk Region determined that the bridge located at the interception of Shevchenko St. and Vostochnaya St. in Yekaterinburg had been ordered by Blagoustroystvo, the local municipal enterprise; they decided on SverdlovskMostoStroy Ltd. as their general contractor. The construction itself was completed by workers from a building company called Mostostroitelniy Otryad 72. The cross-bars of the second, the third, and the fourth bridge footings fell down at 5 PM on September 4, 2006 while the workers were still there. This resulted in complete destruction

Vanadium Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise of Kachkanar (part of Evraz Group) added some new vehicles to its fleet, namely, two Polish frontlifts and an excavator made by Uralvagonzavod of Nizhniy Tagil. The frontlifts will be used for cargo handling in the pits, factories and storehouses, the excavator is meant for clearing up and constructing railroads in the open casts. One of the frontlifts will be employed at the final tailings shop since, according to the company’s production plan, a lot of drainage fills will have to be dealt with there in 2007. The rest of the equipment should be

Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil (part of Evraz Group) has recently announced the names of the best undergraduates of vocational school 104 who were awarded Evraz Group corporate scholarships. The management of the Complex conducted the solemn ceremony, with five students receiving 6,000-ruble scholarships (per semester). The scholarships were given to two would-be electricians, a crane operator, an electro-gas welder, and a checker mechanic. Every tenth employee of the Complex is a graduate of this vocational school which is the third fundamental source of the company’s