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Great Britain Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair visited INTERPIPE STEEL

october 23, 2012
Public figure and Great Britain Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair has visited Dnipropetrovsk. The well-known politician has delivered a public lecture on the reformation of economy in the XXI century and has also looked round the state-of-the-art electric steel melting mill INTERPIPE STEEL.
In the framework of the educational project of Victor Pinchuk Fund Tony Blair has spoken to students and postgraduate students of Dnipropetrovsk higher educational institutions with a lecture “Modernizing countries in the ХХІ century”. And after the lecture he has spent almost an hour, answering of young Ukrainians – about reforms, labor time organization, friendship and future of Europe and Ukraine.
When visiting the new INTERPIPE STEEL mill, the public figure has managed to see live the modernization and development of the Ukrainian metallurgy. Going around the electric steel melting complex, Tony Blair has met with young metallurgy engineers and has seen with his own eyes the unique combination of the innovative production with the contemporary art.
 
“I have visited a huge number of Great Britain mills. INTERPIPE STEEL is undoubtedly an outstanding creation. This is one of the best and most modern  mills in the world. I am greatly impressed with the spectacular and almost fantastic design of the facility. It is a real pleasure for me to come to Dnipropetrovsk and see the true personification of the 21st century industry, – Tony Blair has commented. – It is extremely essential for Ukraine to have such a state-of-the-art production facility as INTERPIPE STEEL. The most up-to-date technologies, the brand-new approaches to the work – all these things are an enormous success for the country. The mill should become a platform for development – a symbol of what the modern industry must be like”.
This is the first visit of Tony Blair to Dnipropetrovsk. Last year, also on the invitation of Victor Pinchuk Fund, the Ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain had a meeting with Ukrainian students in Kyiv.
REFERENCE
Tony Blair – the British politician and public figure, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007), ex-leader of the Labor Party.
Starting from 1999 he has been the head of the inter-party pro-European movement “Great Britain in Europe", focused on the country’s accession to Euro. Currently Tony Blair carries out a number of public activities around the world and is the senior advisor and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations at JPMorgan Chase and a personal counselor of LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton S.A. French Group owner.
He holds a number of prizes and awards for his contribution into the global community development:
International Charlemagne Prize, US Congressional Gold Medal for "outstanding and enduring contributions to maintaining
the security of all freedom-loving nations", and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (USA).
 
INTERPIPE STEEL is the first metallurgical plant, built in Ukraine from the scratch for almost half a century. Considering its level of technologies, labor conditions, and environmental protection standards, it obviously represents a new phase in the industry development. Total volume of investments has amounted to 700 million US dollars.
The average age of the new mill employees is 31 years. Approximately 76% of INTERPIPE employees have a university degree. For some professions the competition rate in the employment process has been 10 persons per job. More than a half of the employees have undergone additional training abroad.
INTERPIPE STEEL is the key project for INTERPIPE, designed to provide the Company’s pipe and wheel production with its own steel billets. When the mill reaches its designed capacity rate in 2014, the self-sufficiency in billets for INTERPIPE seamless pipes' production will rise to 90 %. The production capacity of the new mill will be 1.320 million tons a year, making it the largest enterprise of this kind in Eastern Europe.
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