UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast Aeromodeling Federation Cup competition will take place at the School 23 stadium in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District this weekend. There will be a Soyuz 500 radio controlled model plane fight and F3U drone racing, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The rules are quite simple: a fifteen-meter ribbon gets attached to every model plane, and the pilot’s task is to cut off the rival plane’s ribbon with a wing or the rotor. Miniature copies of WWII Soyuz 500 planes (electric engine, wing spread around 1 meter) will feature in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s White Metallurgists are going to take part in the 4th blue-collar job championship WorldSkills Hi Tech in Yekaterinburg EXPO on November 3-7, 2017, the company press service reports. Seven highly skilled workers from the Group’s pipe-manufacturing and oilfield services divisions will compete in six different categories. ‘ChTPZ Group was one of Russia’s first companies to join the WorldSkills movement as soon as Russia was officially in it. The company team took part in all the WorldSkills Hi Tech contests and typically won a good number of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2017. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) presented its new development strategy for 2017-2027 and a report on the company’s current performance in London. According to TMK press service, the presentation was part of the company’s 5th Annual Investor Day. ‘The new strategy is expected to help TMK remain the world’s leading OCTG supplier and the Russian oil and gas sector’s leading pipe produce supplier. We also intend to remain among the top three OCTG manufacturers in the U.S and the world’s second most financially successful OCTG producer,’ TMK press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2017. Rosatom TVEL’s Novouralsk-based asset Ural Electrochemical Combine was among the Urals and Western Siberia’s top hundred companies in terms of sales output last year, the company press service refers to EXPERT Analytical Center’s rating as indicating. The rating is based on the federal Expert 400 Rating PwC-approved technology and features four hundred major companies based in the Urals and Western Siberia (Sverdlovsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Tyumen Oblast, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. President of Russian Copper Company Vsevolod Levin presented its company’s Aleksandrinskaya Ore Mining Company’s investment projects at a recent meeting chaired by Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast, the company press service reports. ‘The company intends to upgrade its processing plant. The key task is to replace all the filtering equipment (ceramic copper and zinc concentrate filters) with up-to-date filtering presses. This upgrade will make the plant more environmentally safe, reduce the residual moisture content in the concentrates by nearly 1.5 times,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. ChTPZ Group is now the first Russian company to supply split tees to Gazprom, the company press service reports. The tees were made at the Group’s ETERNO. The split tees will be used for capital repairs of the second line of Vuktyl-SGPZ (Gazprom Dobycha Krasnodar) condensate pipeline. ETERNO’s produce will allow for repairs without interrupting any oil/gas transfer. As it happens, Russian oil and gas companies used to have to rely on foreign manufacturers for their split tees before. ‘Making import substitution items for the oil and gas industry is one

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) introduced a number of new products for its small business customers: they can now benefit from two new overdraft options, the bank’s press service reports. Small enterprises are getting increasingly more interested in the bank’s overdraft offers, as this is a convenient way to make up for cash shortage and pay all salaries and rent in time. The bank provided its customers with 25% more overdrafts in January-September 2017 compared with one year earlier, whereas the overall overdraft amount was

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 3, 2017. ChTPZ Group shareholder Andrei Komarov helped coordinate a children’s musical contest in Chelyabinsk Oblast, the company press service reports. Now the musical called Look at Me Flying! will open the Group’s 15th Snezhnost Charity Festival. The title was suggested by one of the students at the children’s musical school Valeria Korolkova. The best title contest opened on the day musical rehearsals began in October. The young actors involved in the musical, children from the Group’s Culture Palace arts and crafts clubs, and children from Foster Home 8 all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast-based Russians placed 469 complaints relating to quality and safety of medical services they received with the local division of Roszdravnadzor in the nine months of the year. This was 26% more than one year earlier, Roszdravnadzor reports. The overall number of queries rose by 32.7%, from 660 yo 876. In addition to complaining about the quality of medical services, locals also asked questions about state-funded medicines and distribution of prescription drugs, medical goods, and medical appliances. There are 23.67 queries per every

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2017. Thanks to ChTPZ Group shareholders Andrei Komarov’s and Alexander Fedorov’s funding and efforts, a book called Fedor Danilov. The Legendary’s Director’s Life Chronicles came out in time for the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) former director’s 110th birthday, the company press service reports. The book dwells on the life and work of Fedor Danilov, a prominent metallurgist who ran PNTZ for over three decades. It was under Danilov that the plant grew to become one of Russia’s largest metallurgical enterprises. ‘Fedor Alexeyevich Danilov believed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) won in the national Russia’s Environmental Leader 2017 Contest as the Best Environmentally Responsible Ferrous Metallurgical Enterprise, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s corporate relations department reports. The awarding ceremony took place during the International Human Health & The Environment 2017 Forum in Moscow. The contest was coordinated by the Federation Council, the State Duma, and a number of Russian Federation ministries. ‘EVRAZ NTMK keeps working to reduce its environmental impact

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2017. ChTPZ Group and MISIS Moscow University of Science & Technology are now implementing a leadership program together, based on the university’s master degree programs, the company press service reports. The program involves studying at the college, working at the Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, and contributing to innovative developments. Students can major either in Metallurgy or in Technological Machines & Equipment. ‘ChTPZ Group is Russia’s flagship enterprise in the pipe-manufacturing sector and in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) developed a technology for making new rail varieties, some of which have no counterparts anywhere in the world at the moment, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s corporate relations department reports. ‘The new DT400IK rails are an improved modification of DT370IK type and are meant for the more complicated sections of the railways; these rails proved 13% more wear-resistant than the general, all-purpose rail type. The new rails also proved stronger throughout the entire rolling surface and have a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FCG UES) got certified as ready for the fall/winter of 2017/2018, the company press service reports. The certificate proves that the company’s United Energy Systems are fully prepared to operate under the season’s maxim workload in seventy-seven Russian constituencies where the company runs its facilities. The certificate was issued after a special inspection by an interdepartmental committee consisting of representatives of Russia’s Energy Ministry, Rostechnadzor, UES System Operator, Russia’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is offering its customers a new deposit scheme with annual interest rate of 8.5% at the start of the winter holiday season. This is a flexible deposit option, as you can both add money to your account and take some cash out, the bank’s press service reports. The deposit can get opened at any of the bank’s branches, where an expert will do the exact interest yield calculations for you, inform you of all the terms and conditions, and answer your questions. You can also set up the deposit via your

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2017. A group of Russian Railways delegates came to EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) to look at the plant’s rail production facilities and talk about the two companies’ strategic cooperation; this was all part of a two-day New Railway Solutions Conference, the company press service reports. ‘EVRAZ and Russian Railways work together to improve this country’s transport security as well as the quality of railway freight forwarding. ZSMK keeps designing new railway produce based on its key partner’s current needs,’ says EVRAZ

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2017. ChTPZ Group recently supplied a new, experimental set of pumping and compression pipes with F 3.2 threaded joints to Surgutneftegaz. The pipes were made at the Group’s Finishing Center at Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, the company press service reports. The pipes (diameter: 73 mm; layer thickness: 5.5 mm) are used in the formation hydraulic fracturing process, which is one of the ways to increase an oil or gas well’s output, and for a number of technological procedures in straight and inclined wells. The pipes are very durable because they are made from a

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 1, 2017. The management of the South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry recently negotiated with representatives of the Chinese province Heilongjiang’s international trade committee the CCI’s press service reports. ‘The talks covered discussions on a number of joint projects to improve Chelyabinsk Oblast and China’s economic ties. This is all part of a cooperation agreement Ural Federal District’s CCI Association signed with China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) during the China-Russia EXPO this June,’ the press service says. It was

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 1, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) directed RUR 223m to working conditions improvements last year; as a result, the plant now has fewer jobs with hazardous factors, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department refers to the plant’s Jobs Safety and Industrial Safety Director Alexei Beltyukov. According to Beltyukov, a special working conditions evaluation procedure has been carried out at 76% of all the workplaces. The remaining 24% will get inspected in 2018. An ad hoc committee gets set up by the Director-General’s order every year, an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Uralgidromed in Polevskoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast, was given a thank-you letter from Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast Evgeny Kuivashev following the local job safety and working conditions contest. Russian Copper Company’s press service reports the contest was held among the constituency’s ferrous and no-ferrous metallurgical enterprises, ore mining companies, and companies in the ferrous alloy industry, agriculture, food and processing industry, and healthcare sector. The contestants got evaluated on the basis of their working