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Although currently the company does not encounter a direct lack of personnel, the company is aware of the need to change this negative trend. Therefore the company in cooperation with labor offices and their information and consulting centers and with the educational counselors at elementary schools is addressing pupils and students with an offer of vocational training branches. It is equally important to renew the trust in this branch also among the parents of the pupils and students.
Another important step is cooperation with vocational schools, high schools and colleges. “In order to ensure teaching of technical branches we have been cooperating on a long-term basis with Technical High Schools in Ostrava – Hrabůvka and with VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava. Our plan is to establish our cooperation also with Technical High Schools in Frýdek-Místek,” says Jan Polzer, personnel director of the company. For college graduates mainly from the technical branches VÍTKOVICE STEEL offers one-year adaptation process in a newly established „Center for Preparation“. Here the graduates will get not only theoretical but mainly practical experience in the steel branch, they will get acquainted with the operation of the company and with all specialized activities of the individual departments. The successful graduates will then be able to get permanent job in a prosperous steel company.
“Lack of steel making professions is caused mainly by the impacts of the restructuring of the steel industry that started in our company in 1992,“ explained Pavel Kunor, head of the personnel department. “The main problem of the region is unbalance between the qualification structure of manpower and the demand on the labor market and also low motivation of the citizens to engaging with whole-life education which is the conclusion of the Strategic Plan of the Development of the Statutory City of Ostrava and the Program of Moravian-Silesian Region,” added Pavel Kunor.
VÍTKOVICE STEEL will also traditionally takes part in the SYMBIÓZA 2007 project, whose 6th year will be held on March 13 and 14 March 2007 in the new auditorium of VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava. During this event, students of colleges in the Moravian-Silesian Region meet with important employers from the entire Czech Republic. The objective of the SYMBIÓZA 2007 project is to increase the potentials of college graduates to find their place on the labor market and also in VÍTKOVICE STEEL.
Top management of VÍTKOVICE STEEL is convinced that the joint effort of all parties involved will ensure prosperity of the steel making branch and security for the employees.
EVRAZ VITKOVICE STEEL concentrates on the production of steel and steel products – heavy plates, heavy and medium sections, and flame-cut shapes from heavy plates. The company aims to continue increasing the sales of its products with high added value, such as deliveries of plates for pipelines. Thanks to the important support of the Evraz Group and its strong position on the Russian steel market the company has also successfully entered the Russian market of the pipeline industry. In the sphere of plates EVRAZ VITKOVICE STEEL is the main European manufacturer and the dominant manufacturer in the Czech Republic. The most important product of Heavy section rolling mill is sheet piles which represent a 65 % share of the mill’s production. The company is the sole manufacturer of this product on the domestic market and holds a 90% market share.
Evraz Group S.A. is one of the largest vertically-integrated steel and mining businesses. In 2006, Evraz Group produced 16.1 million tonnes of crude steel. Evraz Group’s principal assets include three of the leading steel plants in Russia: Nizhny Tagil (NTMK) in the Urals region and West Siberian (Zapsib) and Novokuznetsk (NKMK) in Siberia, as well as Palini e Bertoli in Italy, Vitkovice Steel in the Czech Republic, and Evraz Oregon Steel Mills headquartered in the USA. Its fast-growing mining businesses comprise Evrazruda, the Kachkanarsky (KGOK) and Vysokogorsky (VGOK) iron ore mining complexes and Neryungriugol coal company and equity interests in the Raspadskaya and Yuzhkuzbassugol coal companies. The mining assets enable Evraz Group to be a vertically-integrated steel producer. Evraz Group also owns and operates the Nakhodka commercial sea port, in the Far East of Russia, which facilitates its access to Asian export markets.
