UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 30, 2015. ChTPZ Group’s employees and alumni of the Future of White Metallurgy, the company’s corporate training program, are going to take part in the 2nd WorldSkills Russia Championship, a blue-collar jobs competition, the company press service reports.

The Group’s contestants have won various rounds of WorldSkills Russia before. For one, Alexander Ilyinykh and Roman Barkhatov won silver medals in WorldSkills Russia and the 1st WorldSkills Hi Tech Russia in Mobile Robotics, while Anton Shalakhov, who got the bronze in WorldSkills Russia in Kazan last year, will compete for a prize in Welding Technologies.

Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) is sending three people to act as experts on the judges’ panel for Mobile Robotics, Welding Technologies, and Industrial Automation. Lecturer from ChTPZ Training Center Arthur Khalikov was appointed the leading expert in Mechatronics.