UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2019. Rosatom/TVEL’s Novouralsk-based asset CentroTech supplied a set of ultra-fine filters to one of Roscosmos State Corporation’s member enterprises. The filters will be used as components of special-purpose equipment working under overpressure (up to 40 MPa), Ural Electrochemical Combine’s press service reports. The filters are used to eliminate mechanical impurities over 5 micrometers large from gases that are chemically resistant to the materials the filters are made of: air, nitrogen, helium, and air-, nitrogen-, and helium-based mixtures. The goal is

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 15, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won the Event of The Year in Russia’s Metallurgical Industry Award for building its new Sintering Plant 5, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The awarding ceremony took place during the opening of Metal Expo 2019 International Industrial Exhibition in Moscow. The winners received honorary certificates and symbolic trophies - figurines of metallurgical workers. According to MMK representatives, Russia’s most up-to-date sintering plant, which is MMK’s Sintering Plant 5, was launched in July 2019.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2019. Recent tests proved that all the new sock filters installed at OOO FORES’s Asbest branch work efficiently, the company’s press service reports. ‘All the five new sock filters at spray-drying towers at Asbest branch have been installed and work properly, which has been confirmed by testing the latest one operating at Production Line 2. Once the old gas scrubbers have been replaced with this new equipment, our filtering capacity has gone up impressively’ the company says. According to the company’s press service, the first filter got launched in July 2018

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 14, 2019. A high-strength steel wire-manufacturing plant will be put up in Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Industrial Park, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘MMK, MMK METIZ, and MMK Industrial Park signed a cooperation agreement with OOO Terwingo during the 25th International Industrial Exhibition (Metal-Expo 2019); the agreement was signed by MMK’s Director Pavel Shilyayev, MMK METIZ’s Director Alexander Mukhin, MMK Industrial Park’s Director Vladimir Dremov, and Terwingo’s Director Mikhail Ushakov,’ the company says. Under the terms of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2019. SKB-Bank’s customers can now pay for their shopping using QR codes; the bank believes this payment method will prove very popular with customers. Now the online retail store Wildberries is one of the first Internet shopping outlets to introduce QR code payments. Customers of four Russian banks (including SKB-Bank) can now use this payment method there. According to the bank’s press service, you have to select QR code as the payment method when placing your order on the site and then scan the code using a smartphone app. Wildberries also intend to offer

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s official website proved one of the most frequently visited sites run by Russian banks in the third quarter of 2019. Based on bancrf.ru’s popularity rating, the UBRD’s website came thirteenth in the ranking, which is three positions higher than one ranking earlier. According to the rating, 1.43m people visited the website in the given period, with 97.83% of visitors based in Russia. According to bancrf.ru, the visitor data got collected from external services, so the number of clicks on the website

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s managers and lower-level employees all started using the updated version of RUK MPU App (available on both Android and iOS platforms), the company’s PR Department reports. The first version of the app got launched in 2018. At first, it could only be used to control the target/actual output figures for stoping, mining, and shipping work and the key performance parameters of the mine and the processing plants. A little later, the coalface performance and methane content monitoring functions got added as well.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2019. ChelPipe Group opened its stand at the 25th International Industrial Exhibition (Metal-Expo 2019); the exhibition is held on November 12-15 in Moscow, the company’s press service reports. ‘ChelPipe Group’s stand at Metal-Expo 2019 features pipes that give off light in the dark, serving as lighthouses that indicate the safest and surest way to a city of innovative industry, highly evolved culture, and sophisticated social life. The company also presents some samples of hi tech produce such as a casing pipe with a weld-on connector for oil wells found at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 13, 2019. Metcombank’s call center operators proved Russia’s No. 1 according to NAUMEN. According to the bank’s press service, NAUMEN, a company that specializes in information management solutions, recently carried the findings of its research on the availability of and quality of customer service at major Russian banks’ call centers in 2019. ‘Among Russian banks with under RUB 100bn worth of assets, Metcombank topped the rating in terms of both availability and quality, with 100% of customer calls made by NAUMEN representatives getting processed in under 90

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 13, 2019. 8,277,436 people flew with Ural Airlines in January-October 2019, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 6%. According the company’s press service, they operated 54,199 flights in the ten months of 2019 (+3% on the year 2018), including 27,704 domestic flights and 26,495 international ones. The airline’s passenger turnover rose by 7% in the course of one year and reached 20,068,510,000 passenger-kilometers. 875,053 people flew with Ural Airlines in October 2019, which was 9% more than one year earlier. 405,771 people went on the airline’s

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 13, 2019. Speakers from RPA Innovations Center and MMK Group’s MMK-InformService gave their talks at the International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2019) in Moscow, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information & PR Department reports. The talk (RPA. From Fantasy to Reality) dwelled on MMK Group’s experience with RPA solutions for business process. The speakers presented the solutions developed by RPA Innovations Center for both MMK Group and external customers. The Group currently relies on dozens of RPA solutions, and the Center

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 13, 2019. The State Labor Inspectorate completed its audit of OOO FORES’s branches, the company’s press service reports. The government inspectors used specially designed check lists to look into the branches’ compliance with the labor legislation. According to Deputy Executive Director for Job Safety and Industrial Safety at OOO FORES Nikolay Shedlovsky, the last time the company got audited by the State Labor Inspectorate was in 2016. The check lists got introduced in November 2017, so this is the first time FORES has faced this audit format. Shedlovsky

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 13, 2019. ChelPipe Group is taking part in the 22nd Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference in the United Arab Emirates this month, the company’s press service reports. ‘The Middle Eastern and North African markets are among the priority export targets for ChelPipe Group, so the company intends to join the area’s largest exhibition with its range of pipeline produce and oilfield service solutions,’ the company says. Among the featured products are weld-less and welded pipes, stamp-welded pipe joints and fittings, stop valves, premium threaded

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 12, 2019. Ural Customs detected 1,114+ instances of Russian exchange regulations violations (total amount: RUB 6.7bn) in the nine months of 2019; 42% of cases have to do with illegal exchange transactions. ‘In the nine months of 2019, the customs authorities completed 420 checks into how both residents and non-residents comply with the existing currency law of the Russian Federation and exchange control authorities’ normative acts. This resulted in 680 administrative offense suits (with charges based on Article 15.25 of the Russian Federation Administrative

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 12, 2019. MegaFon now sells its products through AliExpress’s marketplace Tmall, the telecom company’s press service reports. The online platform got launched in time for November sales supported by retailers worldwide. MegaFon intends to start with a range of Apple products. ‘MegaFon’s online shop is now available at megafon.ru.aliexpress.com. A range of Apple iPhones in different color options is on offer starting November 11. This means MegaFon is now Russia’s first authorized Apple reseller to work with Tmall. The latter will secure MegaFon’s customers a

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 12, 2019. MMK-Kurort’s Metallurg-Magnitogorsk Ski Resort will host the first round of Snowboard World Cup in parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom for the first time ever on December 7-8, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information & PR Department reports. The contest’s principal judge and Head of Sports & Tourist Issues at OOO Abzakovo Mikhail Kuznetsov, Head of Magnitogorsk Physical Culture, Sports & Tourism Division Alexander Berchenko, and Director at MMK-Kurort Management Company Yegor Kozhayev all talked about the organization of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 12, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) supplied more than 900,000 kg of H-beams for Ryazanskaya Transfer Hub in Moscow Underground, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The plant manufactured a range of 45 B2 and 60 B2 H-beams (strength grade: S255) for the project. The H-beams got shipped to the site through EVRAZ Metal Inprom over the course of ten months. Now Ryazanskaya is going to become Europe’s largest hub, connecting Bolshaya Koltsevaya and Nekrasovskaya lines, Moscow Central Circle, and suburban

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 12, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) raised the annual interest rate on one of its savings deposit offers by 2%, up to 8.5%. According to the bank’s press service, the idea is to help customers save up faster and better in time for the winter holiday season. The deposit period comes to 390 days; the terms and conditions apply if you sign up for the all-inclusive service package. ‘The interest gets paid into your deposit or your debit card account every thirty days. You can open the deposit at any of the bank’s offices, or online (in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 11, 2019. Next year, Yekaterinburg Council intends to apply to the Russian Federation Government for the funding to cover the construction of the second line of Yekaterinburg Underground, Mayor Alexander Vysokinsky said today during the commissioning and acceptance ceremony for the new, upgraded railcars for the existing underground line. ‘We plan to get the updated feasibility study to start working on the line next year. We call this an audit for the second underground line construction project. The project will be presented to the federal-level authorities in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 11, 2019. Yekaterinburg is going to replace some of its buses with new ones in time for the summer Universiade 2023, Mayor Alexander Vysokinsky told reporters today. According to Vysokinsky, 200 new buses will get purchased in the next three years. The Mayor says the buses will get co-funded by Sverdlovsk Region’s authorities on leasing terms. ‘The decision has been made in connection with the Universiade, we’ll run a tender and buy some 100 buses,’ Vysokinsky said. Some of the new buses are expected to appear on the city streets as soon as the first quarter of