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Nobel prize winner has visited INTERPIPE STEEL

october 15, 2012

Dan Shechtman, the Nobel prize winner in chemistry, has visited Ukraine. The world-known scientist has presented an educational project, focused on the popularization of natural sciences, and has also visited the new electric steel melting mill INTERPIPE STEEL.

The Nobel prize winner’s arrival to Ukraine has been dedicated to the project “Science in kindergartens”, aimed at the studies of natural sciences by children even in their pre-school years. The project is based on the special technique, developed by Dan Shechtman. Professor is absolutely sure that its application will not only favor the scientific thinking of children, but will also strengthen the intellectual potential of the new generation. Dan Shechtman has personally conducted the first lesson for future engineers, physicists, and chemists.

At INTERPIPE STEEL Dan Shechtman has met young, but truly established metallurgy engineers. The visit to the new electric steel melting production has been a part of the scientist’s stay in Ukraine.

“This is not the first metallurgical facility I have managed to visit. I have been at mills in Israel and Sweden. But this mill is the most up-to-date of everything I have ever seen. This is an environmentally friendly and efficient production facility. And it is very beautiful. People, working here, seem to be happy”, - Professor Shechtman has shared his impressions.

The visit of Dan Shechtman to Ukraine has been organized in the framework of the regional educational project of Victor Pinchuk Fund.

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DAN SHECHTMAN (born in 1941 in Tel-Aviv), world-known physicist and chemist, the 2011 Nobel prize winner in chemistry for “the discovery of quasicrystals”.

Professor Shechtman is one of the leading scientists in the field of solid-state physics, materials technology, and crystallography. Shechtman’s major research activities are related to microstructure and features of the rapidly solidified metal alloys, as well as a number of other problems. Scientific achievements of Professor Shechtman have received numerous awards, including the International Award for New Materials studies of the American Physical Society, Rothschild Prize in Engineering, Weizmann Science Award for achievements in sciences, Israel Prize for Physics, and Wolf Prize in Physics.

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.