UrBC, Moscow, June 25, 2015. ChTPZ Group is presenting its White Well Project and its latest equipment for artificial oil lift and well repair at MIOGE 2015, the oil and gas exhibition, in Moscow’s Expocenter on June 23-26. The White Well Project, implemented jointly by the Group’s pipe-manufacturing and oil equipment maintenance divisions, stands for helping companies increase their oil production outputs at difficult wells through prolonging the equipment’s time between overhauls. This can be achieved with the help of customized choice of pipe materials and supplying equipment pieces in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 25, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation/UVZ signed a number of cooperation agreements with Russian colleges, with the aim of setting up vocational chairs there, at Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs Vocational Education & Labor Supply Committee meeting, the company press service reports. At the start of the meeting, UVZ Executive Director Vladimir Roschupkin and Director of G.V. Plekhanov Russian Economic University’s Ural branch Alla Golovina signed an agreement to set up an integrated Chair for Economics & Management. A similar

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 24, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly deputies adopted the bill on the constituency’s budget implementation in 2014, yet voiced their dissatisfaction with the implementation quality. Based on Sverdlovsk Region Finance Minister Galina Kulachenko’s report, the budget received 164,583,872,000 RUR in revenues last year, whereas budget expenses amounted to 184,438,774,000 RUR. Budget deficit thus stood at 19,854,902,000 RUR. Corporate income tax revenues went down by 5.6% and reached 43.7bn RUR; excise duty payments decreased by 5.7%, down to 12.5bn RUR. 65bn

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 24, 2015. The main focus of the upcoming Innoprom 2015 Exhibition in Yekaterinburg will be on urban technologies in the field of construction, social projects, and business, deputy mayor of Yekaterinburg Sergey Tushin said at a press conference recently. ‘This year, the design of the stands will be only complementary to the content. Every stand traditionally serves as a multi-functional site suitable for holding up to four different events at once. This is a forum zone for round table discussions, a presentation venue, a site for holding negotiations and landing

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, June 24, 2015. On June 19, Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ BOD member Alexander Filatov made his report on government support measures in the non-energy export sector at a panel discussion at Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. Expanding its export segment is currently one of the Group’s top priorities. The company intends to double its export of steel pipes within five years, up to 500,000,000 kg a year by 2019. The Group’s O &G equipment maintenance division, Rimera, plans to raise its export sales by 5% to 10% a

UrBC, Omsk, June 24, 2015. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) completed the first stage of its project to convert its furnaces, drying stoves, and drying stands to using natural gas rather than wet fuel. The project began this year: in June, all the necessary pipelines were assembled and a number of drying stoves underwent startup and commissioning jobs, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The use of natural gas rather than reduced fuel oil for this part of the production process results in better quality of spare parts treatment. Switching to gas will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 24, 2015. The budget for the military vehicles exhibition Russia Arms EXPO 2015 will come to between 150 and 160m RUR, Director of the event coordinator Business Dialogue Anatoly Kitsura said at a press conference. ‘The money will be directed to the exhibition, the stands, transfer services, catering, business agendas, and the necessary building jobs on the site. Besides, some extra funds will be contributed by the exponents themselves,’ Kitsura said. According to the businessman, 116 companies from Russia, Italy, Belarus, Korea, Turkey, and other countries have

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 23, 2015. The number of people without jobs who registered with Sverdlovsk Region employment agencies came to 33,079 on June 1, 2015, compared with 28,219 a year earlier, the Employment and Labor Department reports. 43,357 people applied to the agencies in search of a suitable job, including 39,501 jobless applicants, compared with 34,419 a year earlier. The official unemployment rate came to 1.45%, compared with 1.22% a year earlier. The overall number of people currently without a job but looking for employment reached 150,875 on June 1, 2015, compared with 118,983

UrBC, Moscow, June 23, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises landed no contracts at Saint Petersburg Economic Forum last week, the constituency’s Investment & Development Minister Alexei Orlov said at a press conference. ‘As a matter of fact, this was not one of our goals. We tend to sign all the important agreements at Innoprom, since this is our home conference and exhibition site. Besides, Innoprom will be held in just two weeks’ time,’ Orlov explained. According to the minister, a few interregional agreements were signed at the forum, however. ‘Sverdlovsk Region Government signed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 23, 2015. Head of ChTPZ Group’s Marketing Division Sergey Aleschenko and Director-General of Uraltrubostal ChTPZ Warehouse Roman Zelenin took part in the Russian Union of Metal Suppliers Congress in Yalta, the company’s press service reports. The two executives spoke about the Group’s current share of the Russian steel pipes market and discussed the metal goods market trends with representatives of other metallurgical enterprises. ‘In 2014, both Russian and foreign pipe manufacturers sold 10.7m tons of their produce on the Russian market. ChTPZ Group’s share was 3%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 23, 2015. The annual amateur Olympics took place at Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s stadium in Nizhniy Tagil. Children from 28 corporation-supported kindergartens competed in the games. The company press service reports 208 children aged between six and seven could become actual sports players for one day and compete for cups and medals. Kindergarten personnel took part in the competition for the first time this year, too. ‘The games have grown into a good tradition: Uralvagonzavod has been hosting the event for three years now. The opening address was given by the head

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 23, 2015. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and the country’s top-ranking military officials went to Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s pavilion on the last day of Army 2015 International Military & Technological Forum to see the life-size samples of the company’s produce. According to the corporation’s press service, the latest developments of Nizhniy Novgorod-based Burevestnik, which were the pavilion’s main attraction, were presented by the company director Georgiy Zakamennykh. ‘The officials were particularly interested in the 57-mm artillery unit AU 220M and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 22, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region was not among the top ten Russian constituencies for doing business in, head of the President Administration Sergey Ivanov said at Saint Petersburg Economic Forum. ‘We are getting a picture of what business climate is like in different parts of the country, and this climate, quite predictably and not at all surprisingly, varies greatly. We’ve already come up with the top ten places,’ Interfax cites Ivanov as saying. According to the official, the top ten constituencies with the best business environment are Tambov, Kostroma, Ulyanovsk,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 22, 2015. Seversky Pipe Plant (a member enterprise of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK) held a professional skills contest for boxmen from the steel-smelting department for the first time this year, TMK press service reports. The contest was coordinated by the department’s management and the plant’s Youth Council. This is the first time such a contest has been held; the idea is to assess the boxmen’s skills and to make sure they meet the modern production standards. To ensure the unfailing performance of the steel-smelting furnace and the CC machine, a boxman must be

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 22, 2015. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) organized a special safety drill dubbed Attention, Summer! According to the company press service, students on the Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program entered the streets of Pervouralsk to remind parents about safety rules for children on summer holidays. Mothers, fathers, and grandparents were offered over 200 information leaflets with safety tips for rivers and lakes, forests, streets, and homes. The plant’s employees will contribute to the effort by telling the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 22, 2015. ChTPZ Group and Severstal held a strategic cooperation session to look into their performance in the first half of the year, the company’s press service reports. The two parties spoke about the companies’ technological cooperation, smoothness of order fulfillment, and quality of metal produced. ChTPZ Group and Severstal’s joint efforts in the first half of the year resulted in less time spent on delivery: it now takes nine rather than fifteen days to deliver rolled metal products from Cherepovets to Chelyabinsk. The companies also agreed about their future

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 22, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko took part in BRICS Business Forum. According to the corporation’s press service, the businessman said in his report that New Development Bank that is now being established within the BRICS member states should stop using the US dollar as default currency. ‘The bank’s capital assets are currently kept in US dollars. There will come a day when we’ll have to get off this hook and protect our resources, evaluate our efforts for their worth, and grow independent from this or that political status quo on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 19, 2015. Volchansk Mechanical Plant (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) funded the organization of a practice lab/workshop for mill operators at Karpinsk Machine-Building School, the corporation's press service reports. The lab used to be located right on the plant's premises, yet moving it to the vocational school proved more convenient for the students. The plant equipped one of the classrooms and provided seven machines, all of them made in Russia, namely, a NC machine, three lathes, two drilling machines, and a desk-size tool grinder.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 19, 2015. The number of Yekaterinburg hostels will reach 100 by 2018, Chair of Yekaterinburg Council Amenity Services Committee Maxim Afanasiev said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to the official, this will be enough to host all the travelers who'll come to Yekaterinburg for the World Cup 2018. 'Experience has shown most football supporters need inexpensive comfortable accommodation rather than luxury hotels. The city calls for businesspeople to focus on hostels, comfortable small hotels that won't cost one a pretty penny,' the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 19, 2015. Only 1.5% to 2% of Sverdlovsk Region's harvesting equipment will be replaced this year, Agriculture Minister Mikhail Kopytov said at a press briefing in Yekaterinburg. 'We ordered around forty new threshers, this mean 1.5% to 2% of our fleet of vehicles will be replaced. The modest percentage has to do with the fact that investment loans have grown extremely costly this year,' the minister said. Based on the minister's estimates, a quarter of all the harvesting vehicles were already obsolete last year. Head of Sverdlovsk Region