Russia: Severstal invests in robotics to automate advanced composites manufacturing

Severstal has invested in the Dutch company Airborne, a global leader in developing digital automation platforms for the production of composite parts, and products with integrated composites. Severstal joins other investors in this investment round, including Pangaea Ventures, the leading advanced materials venture capital fund, and SABIC, the world’s third largest diversified chemical company. Airborne…

Ukraine: personnel outflow at AMKR down in 2019

Hryvnia strengthening, salary increase, maintaining of a social package and the opportunities for additional income helped ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih in 2019 to reduce the outflow of personnel, despite the increase in labor migration in Ukraine. Compared to 2016-2018 the situation with human resources has improved at the company. First of all, regarding the main engineering…

Ukraine: Zaporizhstal to improve quality

This year Zaporizhstal intends to focus on improving the quality of its products. Last year the company received some 100 thousand tons of low-quality products. “We lose $100-150 on each low-quality ton. This money is a reserve that we could spend to finance investment and social projects. This is, actually, our people’s salary. Thus, our…