Pervouralsk is the second fastest-developing city in Sverdlovsk Oblast after Yekaterinburg (2005 Ural Information Bureau[permanent dead link‍]).

The annual growth rate of industrial output remains steadily at 25-30%; the retail turnover increases 20% a year (2005 Ural Information Bureau[permanent dead link‍]).

The city attracts attention of large businesses—only within last years there happens merges and acquisitions with Pervourask enterprises, such as Wimm-Bill-Dann, a well known dairy company, acquiring a dairy plant in Pervouralsk and Chelyabinsk Pipe Group, the second largest in the country, acquiring Pervouralsk Novotrubny Works.

Pervouralsky Novotrubny Works produces more than 25,000 types and sizes of pipes and specially shaped tubes from 200 carbon, alloyed and stainless steel grades according to 34 Russian and 25 foreign standards and 400 specifications.

One of the leading enterprises in Russia in the field of designing, producing and assembling of building and light metallic construction of complete delivery.

At the present moment the plant produces 1,300 tons of metallic constructions, 35,000 m2 of wall roof panels and 7,000 m2 of windows per month.

The plant has its own deposit of crystalline quartzite (Karaulnaya mountain), suitable for production of high quality silica bricks, milled qurtzite.

JSC Dinur exports silica bricks for coke ovens to Algeria, Egypt, Czech, Poland etc.

[1] After the indoor stadium Volga-Sport-Arena in Ulyanovsk was finished, it is the only Russian Bandy Super League venue without artificial ice.