URALCHEM, OJSC announces the successful completion of round robin tests of the company’s fertilizer carried out by Salamon & Seaber, one of the leading UK analytical laboratories, with the participation of URALCHEM specialists.

URALCHEM, the second largest ammonium nitrate producer in the world and full member of the Agricultural Industries Confederation of the UK is again exhibiting at Cereals on June 15-16, the largest agricultural event in the United Kingdom. The company is for the first time presenting the whole range of its fertilizers to the British and Irish markets.

June 6, 2011, Brussels, Belgium – Denis Baskakov, Head of the Trade Policy division of URALCHEM, was voted the European Fertilizer Import Association’s (EFIA) Vice-President within the Association’s General Assembly. As in 2009, Mr. Baskakov was unanimously supported by members of EFIA as the VP for the next 2 years.

URALCHEM-TRANS, LLC (one of URALCHEM Group companies) (hereinafter – “Company”) purchased 100 new hopper-cars for mineral fertilizer transportation (mineral wagons) manufactured by Bryansk Machinery Plant. There is a plan to increase the number of Company’s own mineral wagons by 300 units to have the total of 900 mineral wagons. Following that, the Company’s car fleet will consist of 5.8 thousand various wagons both rented and owned by the Company.

Revenue for the 12 months of 2010 grew to US $ 1389.1 million, compared to US $ 949.1 million for the 12 months of 2009. Operating profit amounted to US $ 205.2 million, or 14.7% of the revenue, compared with the loss of US $ 5.6 million for the 12 months of 2009.

We can confirm that no sale of the company or some part of the company’s assets is under negotiation

URALCHEM, OJSC announces production results for 2010. Production volume at all enterprises of URALCHEM Group increased by 10% in 2010 compared to the year 2009 and amounted to the total of 4.861 million tonnes of production.

From 25 January, 2011 Dmitry Konyaev, the Commercial Director will hold the position of Chief Executive Officer of URALCHEM, OJSC. He will be in charge of day-to-day operations management of the company.

URALCHEM, OJSC announces that another stage of reorganization of joint-stock companies in URALCHEM Group was completed. This process was carried out as part of the project to transfer to a single stock.

URALCHEM, OJSC was given a certificate of participant of International Responsible Care Programme at the annual meeting of the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) covering realization of the programme.