UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2015. Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK joined the Corporate Charity Leaders 2015 Project, the company press service reports.

TMK was assigned the 10th position in the overall rating and a winner’s certificate in the Corporate Charity Concept & Strategy category.

Corporate Charity Leaders is a project run jointly by the non-profit organization Donors’ Forum, the newspaper Vedomosti, and the auditing body PwC. The idea is to bring into the limelight the best corporate charity programs and to draw the attention of general public, business community representatives, government officials, and the media to this activity.

This year, sixty-five companies whose turnover comes to over 100mRUR and which implement their charity projects within Russia contributed to the program. TMK’s member enterprises Sinara Pipe Plant, Volzhsky Pipe Plant, and Seversky Pipe Plant were among these and were all awarded first-time partner’s certificates.

‘TMK’s impressive position in the national corporate charity leaders’ rating is reflexive of the company’s considerable contribution to charity projects. This is seen as an important part of helping create good social climate and conditions for sustainable development in the areas we operate in,’ says TMK Director-General Alexander Shiryaev.