June 26, 2013. ChTPZ Group intends to take part in the Job Counseling Day during the Innoprom 2013 exhibition, the company’s press service says. This year, the group is going to present its business, society, and army cooperation project at the exhibition; this will be a part of a multi-faceted new-generation employee training program. More than 50 volunteers, including people from the Group’s White Metallurgy division, ChTPZ Educational Center students, and the first alumni of the Future of White Metallurgy Program who have served their term in the army, will take part in the event.

June 26, 2013. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) and Gazprom Neft signed a joint scientific and technological cooperation program for 2013-2015. The program aims to provide the oil company with highly competitive, home-produced pipe products with enhanced technological and economic properties, TMK press service reports. TMK has been cooperating with Gazprom Neft for a long time by supplying pipe casing, pipeline components, and oil well tubing for oil production and transportation, including pipes with premium thread joints. The two parties’ further cooperation that was reflected in the

June 26, 2013. In 2012, the average salary in Yekaterinburg came to over 33,000 RUR a month, which was 22% better than in Russia on average, Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Alexander Yakob said at Yekaterinburg Duma meeting recently. He explained that the unemployment rate registered in Yekaterinburg in late 2012 – 0.49% - was the lowest within the last 18 years, while the large and medium enterprises industrial production index stood at 115%, which was 11% better than in Russia on average and 4% better than in Sverdlovsk Region on average. ‘The Urals’ capital is traditionally No.1 among

June 26, 2013. UC RUSAL is going to reduce aluminum production at Bogoslovsky smelter down to 25,000 tons a year, with only Section 6 in operation. The company expects to produce 300,000 tons less of aluminum altogether this year than last year, which has to do with unfavorable market opportunities, RUSAL First Deputy DG Vladislav Soloviev said in his interview to Prime Agency. ‘The matters are quite settled with Bogoslovsky - we will buy Bogoslovsky heat & power station and will only leave Section 6 in operation, which will produce about 25,000 tons of metal,’ the top manager replied to

June 25, 2013. The start-up and commissioning of two new MaXXturn 65 SMY Emco Maier program-controlled turning and machining units is about to be completed at Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant. The Austria-manufactured units were purchased within the framework of the National Special Purpose Defense Sector Development Program for 2013-2020 and cost more than 34m RUR to get, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. Under the preliminary estimates, the two new units could replace at least ten old single-spindle machines. The advantages of the new

June 25, 2013. Head of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation Oleg Sienko said he was willing to support India in expanding and upgrading its railway network. This was said on the first day of Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum during the Russia-India Business Conference attended by Russia’s Industry & Trade Minister Denis Manturov and India’s Minister for Industry & Trade Anand Sharma, the corporation’s press service says. It was reported that the two countries’ cooperation was a partnership on preferential terms, based on close and multi-faceted trade and

June 25, 2013. Lyudinovsky Locomotive Plant (LTZ, a member of Sinara Transport Machines) got a compliance certificate from the Federal Railway Transport Certification Register. Its TEM14 loco’s design documentation was classed O1, which means the company can now produce a pilot batch of locos. After the first stage of TEM14 loco certification had been completed, LTZ got down to getting the certificate allowing it to make a pilot batch, Sinara Group’s PR Center says. The two-diesel TEM14 locomotive was designed by Sinara Transport Machines Innovational Development Center by the order of

June 25, 2013. On June 20, 2013, a solemn opening ceremony of the internal protective pipe coating department took place at TMK NefteGasService Nizhnevartovsk (TMK NGS-Nizhnevartovsk, a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK)), the company’s press service reports. The event was attended by representatives of oil-producing companies – LUKoil, Rosneft, and Tatneft, and those of oil-related services companies and local oil production market operators. The traditional red ribbon at the new department was cut by TMK Deputy Director-General for premium products and services and TMK

June 25, 2013. Ural Airlines reduced the price of a direct flight from Nizhniy Novgorod to Prague and back. Passengers can now buy a ticket for only 9,589 RUR less than two days before the flight on any day between June 21 and September 15, 2013, the airline’s press officer reports. Starting June 24, 2013, Ural Airlines passengers can also save money on their Prague-bound trips by booking early. A ticket for the flight from Nizhniy Novgorod to Prague and back will only cost 10,621 RUR (exchange rate good as of June 21) if booked more than two months in advance. If you book more than 30 but

June 24, 2013. ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) will complete its large-scale delivery of vehicles to Tatneft. The corporation’s press service reports that the oil company will receive 14 B10M and B12 bulldozers, 11 TR20 pipe-laying vehicles, and 6 units meant for making trenches. ‘A half of the assembled tractors have hydro- mechanical transmission, which makes operating them easier. What is more, they are fitted with the Webasto starting pre-heater, a heating system inside the pit, and a special system for preventing the caterpillar treads

June 24, 2013. A Russia-India business conference took place on the first day of Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum; the event was attended by Russia’s Minster for Industry & Trade Denis Manturov and his Indian counterpart Anand Sharma. It was said that the two countries’ cooperation was seen as a preferential strategic partnership based on close and multi-faceted trade and economic and investment relations. The conference participants spoke about further expansion of their bilateral cooperation relating to both systemic collaboration issues and the implementation of specific

June 11, 2013. The World Steel Association carried its annual rating of the world’s largest steel-making companies recently. The WSA’s Top Steel-Producing Companies 2012 list numbers 40 enterprises, and Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), with its 13m tons of steel produced last year (given MMK Group’s output on the whole), was given the 26th position in the rating. This was as many as four positions better than a year earlier. All in all, the Top40 list features four Russian manufacturers, and Russia itself, with its 70m tons of steel produced last year, came 5th in the rating of the

June 12, 2013. Magnitogorsk Metal Goods Plant (MMK-METIZ) won in the All-Russian 100 Best Organizations & Enterprises in the Country 2012 Contest in the Best Industrial Enterprise category. The contest coordinator - the Innovations & Development International Forum – singled MMK-METIZ out of hundreds of other contestants, thus admitting the enterprise’s success in the industrial production field in 2012. The contest is meant to promote the Russian organizations and enterprises’ development, to enhance the efficiency and quality of their work, and to facilitate the professional

June 24, 2013. President and Supervisory Board Chairman of the Russian Sberbank German Gref commented on the positive development dynamics in the way Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) was paying off its loan; this was the message addressed by the top official of the bank that heads the syndicate of ChTPZ creditors to Russia 24 reporters in the course of Saint Petersburg Economic Forum held on June 20-22. ‘This is a very complicated case of restructuring, the amount of debt is quite large, so it took the syndicate a long time to coordinate this scheme, it took many months, in fact. At the

June 21, 2013. A round table discussion was held on the premises of Uralvagonzavod, the head plant of Uralvagonzavod Corporation. The discussion was dedicated to freight forwarding, traction equipment, and railway carriages. One out of nine round table discussions was coordinated in accordance with the ruling of Russian Railway Industry Workers’ National Council and was part of preparing for the 1st conference of the railway industry workers based in Ural Federal District, the corporation’s press service reports. All of the round table discussion participants pointed out that the railway

June 21, 2013. Yekaterinburg Council presented the concept of the city’s stand to be featured at Innoprom -2013. According to the Council’s press officer, the concept provides for a 24/7 site that can be used for holding discussions, making presentations, and signing contracts. For one, the concept designers believe the site will be used for signing an agreement with Gorset, regarding the creation of a cable duct system, for hosting the World Computer Programming Championship of 2014 and the World Cup 2014 Supporters Festival, for signing a project on the development of the street and road

June 21, 2013. Sinara Pipe Plant (SinTZ, a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK), coordinated a number of charity events for the children in the orphanages the company sponsors. Most of these events were organized and carried out by the plant’s A.I. Brizhan Youth Council, the company’s press service reports. For one, a kids and teens festival called Hope Cup was held in Kamensk-Uralsky–based Sinara Orphanage for students from orphanages, boarding schools, and secondary schools of Kamensk-Uralsky and Sverdlovsk Region. Children from 8 educational establishments competed in pioneerball,

June 21, 2013. Consumer rights protection experts from Central Yekaterinburg Branch of Sverdlovsk Region Hygiene & Epidemiology Center helped a customer of Trust National Bank to get back over 50,000 RUR that he had overpaid in terms of fees and commissions. The branch informed UrBC that the man took out a 170,000-ruble loan at the bank and paid back the total of 340,000 RUR by the end of the loan period. After this, he consulted the Center experts to arrange a court claim against the bank. After the claim had been considered, it was ruled that the bank’s actions did not comply with the

June 21, 2013. President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin and Director-General of Yamal Railway Company Yakob Kraft signed a bilateral agreement that provides for redirecting up to 11m tons worth of freight a year to Northern Latitudinal Passageway that is currently under construction, Development Corporation’s press service reports. This document serves as an additional guarantee of the fact that a lot of the cargo that is bound for the ports located in Russia’s North-West and is now transported via the Trans-Siberian railway links will be redirected to the railways of Northern

June 20, 2013. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member of Uralvagonzavod Corporation), fulfilled its contract for the delivery of 10 B10M bulldozers to the oil and gas companies in Bashkiria, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Bashneft is now using a vast fleet of road construction vehicles and upgrades it on a regular basis, so ChTZ local representative Vigma that promotes the plant’s produce in Bashkiria won the tender for the new vehicles. The bulldozers were directed to Bashneft Technological Transport Division in Oktyabrsky; from there, the vehicles will be transferred