UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2017. ChTPZ Group is going to take part in the 7th Saint Petersburg International Gas Forum on October 3-6, 2017, the company press service reports. The company shareholder Andrei Komarov, the Group’s pipe-manufacturing division’s Director-General Alexander Grubman, CFO Denis Prikhodko, and Technical Director Kirill Nikitin are all coming to represent their company at the forum. ‘The Group intends to present its stand at Russia’s largest natural gas forum; the stand will feature a sample of a pipe that has been made through laser-plasma hybrid welding. This new

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2017. Sinara Group’s Kamenskoye Farm, one of the Mid-Urals’ largest agricultural businesses, is about to finish this year’s harvesting campaign. All the vegetables and grains outputs happen to exceed the target figures for this season (haylage by 118% and silage by 150%). Additionally, the farm picked as many as 3,500 kg of crops off every hectare, the Group’s press service reports. All the haylage, potatoes, rape seed, and grains have been harvested by now. The only remaining task is to collect the corn silage. The next stage is fall-plowing. The grain drying

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) supplied over 3,000,000 kg of special H-beams to Moscow Underground’s new Salaryevo Depot; once launched, the depot will be in charge of O&M jobs for Sokolnicheskaya Line, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. ‘EVRAZ NTMK’s 70B1 S 255 H-beams are used as wire frames in accordance with the ‘diaphragm wall’ method. Thanks to their enhanced strength, H-beams can be efficiently used in the construction process instead of concrete and iron-and-concrete structures,’ the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 3, 2017. MMK Group’s MMK METIZ Plant in Magnitogorsk was founded seventy-five years ago on October 1, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. MMK METIZ is now one of the Group’s key assets in the deep-level processing of rolled metal goods segment and high value-added produce segment. ‘The plant is known both in and outside Russia as a reliable business partner with seventy five years’ experience of making and selling metal goods. The plant has been one of the country’s top three metal goods manufacturers for quite a while now. MMK METIZ makes all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 2, 2017. Ural Airlines introduce a new Yekaterinburg-Rostov-on-Don-Yekaterinburg flight on October 30, 2017, the air carrier’s press service reports. The scheduled flight to Rostov-on-Don will be operated at 1 PM every Monday and at 12:40 PM every Friday; the return flight to Yekaterinburg will be available at 3:15 PM on Mondays and at 2:25 PM on Fridays. The flights take 2 and 3/4 hours. Tickets start from RUR 5,600 (one way). ‘Rostov-on-Don is one of the largest cities in the South of Russia, standing on the Don River. The embankment is one of the city’s primary

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 2, 2017. Yekaterinburg Arena Stadium’s historic facades, protected by the law as the last century’s cultural heritage, are almost completely restored in time for the World Cup 2018; Sinara Group’s Sinara Development is acting as the general contractor for the renovation project, the Group’s press service reports. The restoration work involved the old cash desks and the facades outside. Additionally, a number of interior elements (bas-reliefs, vases, chandeliers, and a banner-shaped sculpture at the main entrance) were renovated in accordance with the original

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 2, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is currently holding a large-scale flu shot campaign to prevent workers’ health problems this winter. According to the company press service, the first batches of imported flu vaccine Influvac are already available at MMK’s medical units. This year, the flu shot campaign started simultaneously with Chelyabinsk Region Government’s flu awareness campaign (Flu: Know Your Enemy!) that took off on September 23. ‘We can state with confidence that MMK is the largest contributor to the flu awareness campaign at the moment.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 2, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Karabashmed in Karabash, Chelyabinsk Region got over a half of all new equipment intended for converter gas-cleaning. According to Russian Copper Company’s press service, the equipment is to get installed in the converter-cleaning section of the plant’s Copper-Smelting Department; the section is currently under reconstruction. Once the jobs are done, the section will get three up-to-date Kumera converters (capacity: 150,000 kg each). The gas-cleaning equipment comprises technological and suction dust caps for converters and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 2, 2017. Ural Airlines will fly passengers with VIM Avia tickets on their hands starting from September 29, 2017. The offer holds as long as there are available seats on the air carrier’s planes and through October 16, 2017, the company press service reports. VIM Avia’s customers with valid tickets can get on board as long as their points of departure and destination coincide with those of a given Ural Airlines flight. To get their boarding card, passengers with valid VIM Avia tickets need to apply to Ural Airlines representatives at the airport. For more

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 29, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) came up with a job safety performance report for the first half of the year, the company press service reports. The report states that all the production departments carried out their job safety procedures in full compliance with the current national legislation, existing normative acts, MMK local acts, and the company’s Collective Agreement. MMK’s industrial and job safety management system got certified for compliance with the international OHSAS 18001:2007 standard. The system audit, carried out in March,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 29, 2017. EVRAZ Holding is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an interactive project on its employees. An online platform (EVRAZ Faces) was set up to give everyone an opportunity to introduce themselves, look at stories posted by co-workers from other cities, and talk to like-minded people from all over the country, the company press service reports. EVRAZ employees as well as all other people living in cities where the company operates its enterprises can upload their stories to do with the company. Text, photo, and video formats are all acceptable. These

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 29, 2017. Ural Airlines resume their Yekaterinburg-Krasnoyarsk-Yekaterinburg flight this fall, the air carrier’s press service reports. These scheduled flights will be operated every Monday and Wednesday (to Krasnoyarsk) and every Wednesday and Friday (to Yekaterinburg) between October 20, 2017 and March 21, 2018. Tickets can already get booked at a special reduced price (RUR 4,000 and up). ‘Krasnoyarsk is mostly an industrial city, but it appeals to tourists with its nature reserves, interesting architecture, and exciting landmarks nevertheless. Stolby National

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 29, 2017. Residents of and visitors to Akademicheskiy District will be able to take part in the unusual celebrations on September 30, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The city’s newest district was founded eight years ago this month; the celebration will take place on the feast of Saints Faith, Hope and Charity and their mother Sophia the Martyr. At 8.30 AM, a liturgy will be held at the local church, followed by the final round of a children’s art contest. At 10 AM, volunteers will take part in a clean-up session and will plant a tree alley to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 29, 2017. The new legislation on having SMEs’ bank deposits insured allows private banks to compete with large, state-run lending institutions, says the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Corporate Sales Director Olga Drovovozova. The State Duma went through the first reading of a new bill that gets bank deposits of small and micro-enterprises insured (the insured amount comes to RUR 1.4m). The system is expected to get adopted in 2018. ‘Market instability that has to do with banks getting their licenses annulled all the time results in most

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 28, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy System’s Chair of the Board Andrei Murov held a meeting in Surgut to check how well the company’s power facilities in Western Siberia were prepared for the upcoming fall/winter season and to look into preliminary performance results for 2017, the company press service reports. Two enterprises out of four in the area have already been certified for readiness. 92% of all the necessary repairs have been completed so far. Murov pointed to the importance of making sure the power facilities and the special-purpose

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 28, 2017. SKB-Bank and the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending signed a cooperation agreement in September 2017. The bank’s HQs now host a special Mortgage Center, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Customers based in Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region can now get personalized advice on how to buy a home and professional support throughout the entire transaction-processing stage. Mortgage Center experts will do the calculations as to the final cost of the mortgage and help the borrower get all the necessary paperwork ready,’ the press service says. The Agency

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 28, 2017. A group of delegates from the U.S.-based company Southwire paid a visit to Russian Copper Company’s Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant (KMEZ) in Kyshtym, their visit was aimed to help the plant expand its copper wire production department’s output capacity, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. Southwire is now in charge of the basic engineering jobs and supplying the equipment necessary to get the old production department retooled. The American experts work together with the Russian designers, inspecting the department, deciding on the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 28, 2017. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev held a work meeting with Sinara Group’s Director-General Mikhail Khodorovsky in order to discuss the construction of Yekaterinburg Arena; the stadium should be ready in time for the World Football Championship 2018, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Kuivashev said this is the sixth time FIFA representatives and Russia 2018 Coordination Committee members are inspecting the stadiums across the country. ‘The stadium is nearly ready, I’d say everything is 90% complete. We are currently

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 28, 2017. Over RUR 158m got directed to workers’ healthcare and medical projects at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) in the first half of the year, the company press service reports. ‘MMK makes every effort to keep its employees healthy. We’ve been running our Magnitka Healthcare Project for decades now; the project gets adjusted to the changing legislation and economic factors, and the goal is to prevent health problems among all our workers. Within the framework of this project, MMK employees are entitled to medical and health-restoring services that

UrBC, Moscow, September 27, 2017. 14,500 Russian companies ended up with net losses in the first half of 2017, which amounted to 30.9% of all national businesses (excluding small enterprises, banks, insurance companies, and state-run organizations), Rosstat’s data indicate. This figure is 0.5% larger than that for one year earlier. The loss-making companies consolidated net loss reached RUR 1.1437 trillion. 32,300 Russian companies finished the first half of the year off with profits (RUR 6.7335 trillion all in all). The national businesses’ balanced financial result came to RUR 5.5898