During his two-day visit to the Moravian-Silesian Region, Andrej Babiš, Finance Minister of the Czech Republic visited our company. 

A detailed re-accreditation audit of all testing methods was carried out in VÍTKOVICE STEEL Testing Laboratories. Based on its successful results, the laboratory has been granted an accreditation certificate by the Czech Accreditation Institute for a period of five years. VÍTKOVICE STEEL Testing Laboratories carry out mainly mechanical testing of metal materials focused on the product range manufactured in VÍTKOVICE STEEL, such as heavy plates, sheet piles and cut shapes. 

Ostrava, 12 October 2016 - With the participation of representatives of the diplomatic corps, the supplier and the city of Ostrava, slabs from a new supplier of primary raw material for the production of heavy plates, the Brazilian company Empresa Siderúrgica de Pecém were symbolically baptized today in VÍTKOVICE STEEL, a.s. (the "Company"). So a year since the shutdown of our mill operations, a large supply of slabs has started to come to Ostrava, to complement deliveries from other suppliers from EU countries, Russia and Ukraine.

Ostrava, 6 September 2016 - This year in July, VÍTKOVICE STEEL, a.s. (the "Company") agreed on the bulk supply of steel slabs, the primary raw material for the production of so-called heavy steel plates, manufactured by the Brazilian company Compania Siderúrgica de Pecém. Under this contract, the first slabs from Brazil have already been dispatched to arrive in Ostrava in early October. The supply volume of slabs from South America will reach a substantial portion of the total annual volume of the charge consumption required for the production of heavy plates at the 3.5 Kvarto rolling mill (max. 800,000 tons / year).