UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 21, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) recently supplied a set of pipes to one of Belarus’s largest cylinder actuator manufacturers SALEO-Kobrin for the first time, the company press service reports. The shipment comprised 40,000 kg of hot- and cold-deformed pipes (diameter: 50 mm to 194 mm). PNTZ produce will be used to make cylinder actuators for automobiles and hoisting equipment. ‘ChTPZ Group keeps expanding its sales to the CIS member states: the increase was 3% in the first half of 2017. Large-diameter pipes, OCTGs, and weld-less hot-

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 21, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) had its quality management system subjected to a re-certification audit once again; the system was checked for compliance with the ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/TS 16949:2009 international standards, the company press service reports. The five-day audit involved auditors from the international certificating body TUV NORD CERT looking into the plant’s quality management system’s performance. The audit touched upon nearly all of MMK’s structural and functional divisions. TUV NORD CERT Senior Auditor for ISO 9001 Anton

UrBC, Moscow, September 21, 2017. Russians’ actual disposable income (income minus the indispensable payments, adjusted against inflation) dropped by 1.2% in January-August 2017 compared with one year earlier, Rosstat’s recent report on the country’s socioeconomic situation states. However, the income-shrinking process slowed down from 1% in July 2017 to 0.3% in August 2017. Per capita income amounted to RUR 31,422 in August, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 3.2%. The average monthly pay of an employee amounted to RUR 38,040 RUR (up 7.1% on a year earlier), while the factual

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 21, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) is now installing a new, 500 MVA autotransformer unit at its 220-kilowatt Kamenskaya Power Substation, the company press service reports. The original autotransformer unit was put in place in 1957 and is now getting replaced with a new 500 MVA-strong one. This is expected to make power supply to Kamensk Uralsky Metallurgical Plant (KUMZ) and Ural Aluminum Plant (UAZ) more reliable and to improve the power substation’s workload capacity. Additionally, the four sections of a 220-kilowatt

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 20, 2017. More than two hundred EVRAZ Holding employees took part in the All-Russian Green Russia Cleanup Day last Saturday, the company press service reports. ‘EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) keeps investing in urban development and improvements on the premises of Kuibyshev Plant/Museum, a great industrial heritage spot, for years now.’ ‘This is the fifteenth time we are having a cleanup day in town. Our workers tidied up most of the plant’s premises, cut the old shrubbery and cleared up leaves and grass. An old, stone-paved

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 20, 2017. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky attended the startup-and-commissioning ceremony for the new copper-filling line at Russian Copper Company’s Karabashmed. This was part of his business visit to Karabash on September 18, 2017, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. The new automated equipment is expected to increase the plant’s metallurgical department’s production output as well as to reduce the amount of excess gas thanks to a powerful gas-suction and filtering system. This also means an improvement in working conditions. ‘The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 20, 2017. Two new workout sites are now operating in Yekaterinburg’s Chkalovsky and Oktyabrsky Districts. The locations are 35 Latviyskaya St and 35 Pronina St. The sites were funded by Obschestvo Malysheva 73’s Dobrye Dela Charity Fund and the Anton Shipulin Foundation. According to Obschestvo Malysheva 73’s press service, both workout sites are situated next to sports schools (a ski school in Pronina St and Fakel Sports & Health Club in Latviyskaya St). ‘We didn’t really care about the location as long as it was in a popular spot. In these two cases,

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 20, 2017. Russian Copper Company opened Metallurg, a new, multi-purpose sports facility in Karabash, where the company runs its Karabashmed, the company press service reports. The solemn opening ceremony took place on September 18, 2017. The event was attended by Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky, Russian Copper Company Chair of the BOD Igor Altushkin, and Mayor of Karabash Oleg Budanov. Metallurg is one of the first projects Russian Copper Company has implemented as part of its agreement with Chelyabinsk Region Government on urban improvements in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 20, 2017. Thirty-four employees of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) got enrolled as students of B.N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University’s Chair for Pipe-Making Technologies and Equipment; the chair is located right on the plant’s premises. According to the Group’s press service, twenty-one students are now on the Bachelor’s program for Metallurgy. Thirteen of them are, in fact, alumni of the company’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program. Thirteen more people are on the Master’s program for Metal Treatment Under Pressure. This is the

UrBC, Ozersk, September 19, 2017. ChTPZ Group presented its Vysota Arena project at Ozersk Council meeting; the meeting was chaired by Mayor Evgeny Scherbakov, the company press service reports. The idea is to set up a multifunctional sports facility suitable for mini-football, volleyball, basketball, and hockey/skating in winter, a workout site, and a children’s playground with specially provided parking slots. For construction purposes, a module boiler unit and a transformer power substation need to be put up first. ‘This is going to be a multi-purpose building, not only an arena for

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 19, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is now among Russia’s top ten environmentally proactive companies in the O&G and metallurgical sector for the first half of the year, the company press service reports. The rating was compiled by Zhivaya Planeta Chanel and MOMRI and featured environmental initiatives put forth by thirty-three Russian metallurgical and O&G enterprises; all the initiatives got some media coverage in January through June. MMK came tenth in the rating (just like six months previously) and was the only ferrous metallurgical

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 19, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s SOT is expanding its product range with new welded pipe piles, the company press service reports. The piles are mainly used for beach- and bank-protection purposes to ensure strength, stability, and a structure’s increased lifespan. ‘These bank-beaching produce is likely to enjoy increased demand as oil and gas companies keep working on in-shore deposits on a large scale. The plant took this challenge very seriously and mastered the production of high quality welded pipe piles in only five months between April and August,’ says the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 19, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based leather goods manufacturers’ output declined by 78.3% in the eight months of 2017 compared with one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. At the same time, the overall leather output rose by 12.5% in August 2017 compared with July 2017. However, this figure was 88.4% less than in August 2016. Additionally, the output of paper and paper-based goods dropped by 31.8% in Sverdlovsk Region in the course of one year. All in all, the overall output of companies in the processing sector rose by 4.7% in January-August 2017 compared with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 19, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based building businesses’ turnover amounted to RUR 60.6bn in the eight months of 2017, which is 16.4% less than one year previously, Sverdlovskstat’s data indicate. The turnover of businesses and organizations in the culture, sports, and entertainment sector declined by 5.2%, down to RUR 4.6bn, that of businesses in the polygraphic sector by 5.9%, down to RUR 1.4bn. On the whole, local companies’ turnover reached RUR 2,214,793,000,000 in January-August 2017, which exceeds the figures for one year earlier by 9.9%. The increase was

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 18, 2017. Russian Copper Company and Chelyabinsk Coal Company set up Promrekultivatsiya, a joint venture created to help Korkinskiy Coal Mine go into liquidation, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. 50% of Promrekultivatsiya’s shares belong to Chelyabinsk Coal Company, the other 50% to Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (the asset of Russian Copper Company Group). Nikolai Dzhemilev was appointed the JV’s director. The goal is to liquidate Korkinskiy’s processed working material and fill the empty spaces with special filling produced at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2017. SKB-Bank came third in the rating of the Urals and Siberia’s leading banks in terms of asset volume (RUR 132.727bn) and own funds (RUR 15.663bn) in the first half of the year, the bank’s press service reports. The rating was created by Expert Analytical Center. The bank’s consumer lending activity amounted to RUR 69.077bn as of August 1, 2017, thus making the bank No.1 among the banks based in the Mid-Urals. According to Expert’s research findings, SKB-Bank kept lending actively to both private individuals and businesses in the first quarter of 2017

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2017. Ural Airlines will be operating its Yekaterinburg-Yakutsk-Yekaterinburg flight once again, the air carrier’s press service reports. The scheduled flights will be available every Wednesday between October 19, 2017 and March 22, 2018; the return flights from Yakutsk will be operated every Thursday. Passenger can now benefit from the special price offer: RUR 13,050 (one way). ‘The flight is great both for tourists and people on business trips. Those arriving in Yekaterinburg will be able to see plenty of landmarks: the geographical borderline between

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2017. 1.074m m2 worth of new housing got commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in January-August 2017, which was 6.8% less than one year previously, Sverdlovskstat reports. 207,400 m2 worth of new housing got commissioned in the month of August, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 45%. This figure included 60,700 m2 worth of private houses (-1%).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based end users and communal housing services providers owed utilities suppliers RUR 25.5bn (including RUR 1bn worth of bad debt) by the end of June 2017, Sverdlovskstat reports. At the same time, end users did pay RUR 41.5bn (95.5% of all bill amounts) in January to June 2017. This means there was an average of RUR 2,294.6 worth of housing services per user a month. According to Sverdlovskstat, their statistical data involve 2,296 communal housing services providers. These companies made RUR 73.3bn in terms of profit in January-June

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 15, 2017. EVRAZ Holding supplied over 800,000 kg of rails to Nizhniy Novgorod; the rails will be used to build a connection to Strelka Underground Station. Strelka will be the last station on the Sormovsko-Mescherskaya Line that will ensure an underground link for yet another one of the city’s districts. EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) made 25-meter-long R50 rails for this. ‘Strelka Station is one of the priority components of the city’s infrastructure and is Nizhniy Novgorod Underground’s 15th station. The construction is to