Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is now employing the latest European methods to train its future workers. According to the company’s PR Department, Magnitogorsk Polytechnic College lab is now fitted with educational stands and units identical to those seen in German academies where the future experts for German concerns are trained. This has been made possible due to the grant the college won in the federal education contest in 2007. The college representatives visited Festo Academy in Germany last year to practice using the new equipment and take part in the development seminar on

A production record was set at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) coating shop: the polymeric coating unit produced 18,826 tons of goods instead of the planned 17,000 tons in March 2009. The company’s PR Department explains the unit, launched in the summer of 2004, showed its maximum capacity of the moment in October 2005 when 17,032 tons of goods were produced. Most of the goods produced in March are zinc-coated rolled metal goods with poly coating, of which 16,500 have been delivered on the domestic market and 1,500 tons sold within the CIS. The order portfolio for April comes to