Media releases

Today, during an extraordinary shareholders meeting, the shareholders of VÍTKOVICE STEEL unanimously approved changes in the Company’s Articles and also changes in the composition of the Supervisory Board.

After long and difficult negotiations, the collective agreement for this year was signed by both parties in VÍTKOVICE STEEL this morning. The collective agreement effective for the years 2004 – 2006 was signed last year, so the main bargaining was focusing on the financial part of the agreement.

Almost ten tons of road spreading salt, five tons of sand and another 40 tons of crushed slag – this is the stock of road spreading material of VÍTKOVICE STEEL for this winter. This material will be used for maintenance of sidewalks inside the premises of the company as well as for maintenance of most frequently used sidewalks leading to tram stops and bus stops.

Proactive communication with schools which VÍTKOVICE STEEL started based on the analysis of the current situation has yielded the first fruits proving that students are interested in this Ostrava-based steel company.

VÍTKOVICE STEEL supplied more than 3 000 tons of ship-building plates to Aker Finnyards, Rauma, for erection of 177 m long and 28 m wide „genuine“ luxurious yacht named BIRKA PARADISE, which the ship-yard handed over this week to the client, i.e., to a Swedish company called Birka Line.

These days, the last plates for the motorway bridge with a working name Rojek are being dispatched from VÍTKOVICE STEEL. The bridge which will be a part of motorway D 47 will lead across the Polanecká junction, across the Rojek pond and across the Czech Railway track.