UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2018. An agreement on setting up a management company to coordinate that training of highly skilled ‘white-coated metallurgists’ was signed at the 9th Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition in Yekaterinburg on July 12, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports.

The agreement was signed by Sverdlovsk Region’s First Deputy Governor Alexei Orlov, Managing Director of ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant Alexei Dronov, and acting Mayor of Pervouralsk Igor Kabets.

The agreement covers a number of specific steps to go through with the plan adopted during Russian Investment Forum in Sochi by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, Russia’s Education Minister Olga Vassilyeva, ChelPipe Group’s Chair of the BOD Andrei Komarov, and Director-General of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives Svetlana Chupsheva. The goal is to set up an NGO that will act as the management company and supervise the training process at Pervouralsk Metallurgical School and Pervouralsk Polytechnic.