UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2017. A solemn welcoming ceremony was held for first-year students of ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program at the Group’s Training Center, the company press service reports.

225 16-year-old school-leavers got enrolled on the program today. The Group’s top managers, heads of the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s production departments, and the Future of White Metallurgy Program alumni all congratulated the new students on the start of their school year.

‘The Group’s innovative production departments need highly skilled professionals. The best students on the program will be invited to work at Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant and Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant,’ Director-General of ChTPZ Group’s pipe-manufacturing division Alexander Grubman said in the course of the ceremony.

The program is tuition-free; besides, the Group reimburses the students’ meals and offers them fitness, aerobics, and boxing classes as well as a swimming pool and a gym at the Group’s Sports Palace in Pervouralsk free of charge. Students who do well on the program are also entitled to special increased fellowships.