8.3.2007
VÍTKOVICE STEEL is currently intensely preparing its participation at the 6th year of a prestigious project called SYMBIÓZA 2007. The company successfully participated in two previous years and the result is 4 recruited college graduates who started working with the company and 2 graduates admitted to the Preparation Center.
The SYMBIOSIS 2007 project will take place on March 13 and 14, 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.
„The aim of our participation at SYMBIÓZA 2007 is to offer jobs mainly to graduates of steel making branches of VŠB-TU Ostrava,“ said Jan Polzer, the company personnel director. „In the previous years we were relatively successful and we expect similar results also in this 6th year,” added the personnel director. VÍTKOVICE STEEL cooperates with VŠB-TU Ostrava on a long-term basis. The company offers to students practical assignments, cooperation on preparation of their final thesis, consultations and reviews of final thesis and also cooperation on solutions of thematic projects.
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.
For further information visit www.evraz.com
