The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs declared the results of its Best Russian Enterprises contest for 2009. The winners and the nominees received their awards during the Russian Business Week (which is the Union’s key event in the field of state-private cooperation). OAO Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won the competition in the Best Innovational Project category, the company’s PR Department reports. Last year, MMK completed a major investment project on putting up a hi-tech plate iron production facility on its premises. This plate iron is popular with the O&G

On April 8, 2010, the interest rate for Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) BO-05 bonds was determined in the course of a tender. The bonds total to 8 billion RUR and are to be in circulation for 1,092 days (three years). Under the conditions of the bond issue, no en-route offers are provided; the coupon period comes to 182 days. The potential investors placed over 14.5 billion RUR worth of bids for the tender, which meant the issue was oversubscribed by 1.8 times. According to the results of the tender, the interest rate for the first coupon of MMK’s bonds was set at 7.65% a year,

A continuous hot galvanizing unit produced by the Italian Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA was launched at MMK- Atakaş in Iskenderun, Turkey recently. The new unit’s estimated capacity comes to 450,000 tons of zinc-coated rolled products a year. These goods are to be both sold and used at some further manufacturing stages on a polymeric coating unit. Now this unit, launched on January 15, 2010, has a capacity of 200,000 tons of goods a year. According to MMK’s PR Department, their MMK-Atakaş project is being implemented in accordance with the schedule. At the final stage,

В 12.00 в администрации Челябинска (пл. Революции, 2) состоится аппаратное совещание у временно исполняющего обязанности главы города Сергея Давыдова. В 14.00 (местное время) в пресс-центре информационного агентства «Интерфакс-Урал» (пл. Революции, 4) состоится пресс-конференция на тему: «Защита таможенными органами РФ прав интеллектуальной собственности. Борьба с контрафактом на внутреннем рынке».

13 мая в Челябинске состоится итало-российский семинар «Современные итальянские технологии и оборудование для литейной промышленности в области цветных металлов» и двусторонние встречи с итальянскими компаниями.