30 August 2011 // Press Centre PJSC "AZOVSTAL IRON & STEEL WORKS"
By the beginning of new academic year Azovstal Iron & Steel Works, being a part of Metin-vest Group, rendered financial assistance at the amount of 475 thousand UAH to Mariupol Schools No. 40 and No. 14 within the framework of educational project "School-University-Enterprise". Over 6 years of "School-University-Enterprise" project implementation the total amount of financial assistance to the abovementioned schools made up more than 2 million UAH.
The main task of the educational project "School-University-Enterprise" carried out by Azovstal Iron & Steel Works is preparation of highly qualified specialists adapted to work at a modern production plant, so as development of the future talent pool for the enterprise.
Part of financial funds provided by Azovstal Iron & Steel Works to the schools shall cover the bonuses to the school teachers and the lecturers of Priazovsky State Technical University, who keep additional classes at Azovstal groups within the project "School-University-Enterprise". Special educational program has been developed for Azovstal groups with in-depth study of mathematics, informatics, English and Ukrainian. The aim of additional school lessons is revealing talented and endowed schoolchildren, so as development of their abilities. Within the project "School-University-Enterprise" graduates of Azovstal groups, when entering PSTU, are given the opportunity to get additional study on the disciplines that are not included into the standard state educational program for the graduates of technical universities.
Systematic cooperation of Azovstal Iron & Steel Works with the city schools within the project "School-University-Enterprise" allowed to increase the efficiency of educational process and to strengthen substantially the physical infrastructure of educational institutions. Vyacheslav Chernavsky, Director of School No. 14, said that for the present moment the school has been renovated for 90%. Financial funds, that have been received from the enterprise over the last six years, were used to perform complete renewal of heating and water supplying systems, to replace all the windows in the building, to carry out repairs in the classrooms and gym, to buy new furniture for the library, to reconstruct the face of building and to provide PCs to 16 of 22 classrooms. Also, at School No. 40 all classrooms and gym were renovated, the face of the building was reconstructed, the canteen was repaired and new PCs were purchased.
The funds provided by Azovstal Iron & Steel Works for preparation to the new academic year were used to perform repairs of the classrooms, replacement of the windows, repairs of toilet facilities and heating system, so as to renovate physical infrastructure and to purchase the courseware for the abovementioned schools. Besides, owing to the assistance of Azovstal Iron & Steel Works the new stationary information stands were installed at School No. 40, which are to be used as the visual aids, and a multi-function interactive board was purchased. The latter will allow working with a multimedia projector and PC. New school furniture and computers were purchased for the classrooms. As to School No. 14, two projectors, courseware and new computers were purchased, and subscription to periodic and methodic literature for schoolchildren was made for the whole next year.
"We understand that the generation of schoolchildren of today is our successful future. Our cooperation with the educational institutions is developed with a long-term prospect, because providing the enterprise with highly-professional personnel is the way to dynamic and stable development of the Works and to reaching the set strategic targets", said Enver Tskitishvili, Director General of PJSC "Azovstal Iron & Steel Works".
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PJSC "Azovstal Iron & Steel Works" is a modern high-tech enterprise manufacturing a wide range of steel products: slabs, bars, shapes, railway rails, rail fasteners, square billets, plates and products of metallurgical slag.
Production facilities of the enterprise allow producing over 5.5 mln. t of iron per year, over 6.2 mln. t of steel per year (with the purpose of reaching 7 mln. t of steel per year), and more than 4.4 mln. t of rolled products. Design capacities for rail fasteners production are 285 thousand t per year, milling balls - 170 thousand t per year.Metinvest is a vertically integrated mining group of companies owning assets in each link of the production chain from iron ore and coal min-ing and coke production through to manufacture of semi-finished and finished steel products, pipe rolling and coils as well as other value-added products. Group consists of mining, iron and steel companies, located in Ukraine, Europe and USA and has a sale network covering all key world markets. The major shareholders of Metinvest are SCM Group (71,25 % ownership) and Smart-Holding (23,75 % ownership) partnering in Company’s management.
METINVEST HOLDING, LLC is the managing company of Metinvest Group.