UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 29, 2017. Workers of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) met with Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev on the plant’s premises. More than two hundred employees and students on the Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program attended the event, the Group’s press service reports.

‘Governor Kuivashev has been here many times and knows both our production process and our corporate philosophy (aka White Metallurgy) quite well. The company’s cooperation with Sverdlovsk Region’s authorities proved very fruitful in the last few years. We have been working on a number of joint projects, including the Future of White Metallurgy, and education project that is currently unique to Russia,’ says ChTPZ Group’s shareholder and PNTZ Chair of the BOD Alexander Fedorov.

The Governor answered the workers’ questions relating to Sverdlovsk Region’s economic growth, the government’s support for businesses’ employee training initiatives, and improvements in the locals’ living standards.

‘The living standards in this industrial territory, pay increases, and social infrastructure development all depend on a strong industry, enhanced labor productivity, and successful development and upgrades of large enterprises such as this one. This is why we support and will keep supporting this company, promote its produce on new markets, and lobby the plant’s interests everywhere. I am positive everything will work out fine, and we’ll see considerable improvements in the area’s development and its social and financial stability,’ Kuivashev said.