OREANDA-NEWS. December 10, 2007. Zaporizhstal celebrates its 74th birthday. This is a significant day for many generations of our metallurgists; hoar-headed veterans, blast furnace, open-hearth-furnace and rolling mill operators, for all our workers, who provide normal operation of aggrevates and equipment.

Contemporary of the first Soviet 5-year plans, Zaporizhstal JSC, in the course of its continuous history by right is considered a symbol of domestic metallurgy. It is and it remains the leader of mastering advanced technologies of metallurgical production. Zaporizhstal is a sort of ground of the most progressive ideas in the field of metallurgy, a striking example of dynamic development of productive labour and salary level, real care for the workers and veterans.

Products with Zaporizhstal brand are highly valued in Ukraine and abroad. It’s to the merits of the 20 000 collective of metallurgists. At all times the metallurgists were distinguished by their diligence, professionalism, dedication to the cause of their work and their own enterprise.

Irrespective of the problems the economy of Ukraine experiences, Zaporizhstal workers demonstrate their capability of working at a very high level. For example, this year which has not been cloudless for Ukrainian metallurgists, Zaporizhstal is developing, modernizing and revamping.

Your courageous and self-sacrificing labour, dear Zaporizhstal workers, deserves profound respect. We bow low to you and convey our sincere and cordial wishes to you on this festive day.

With all our heart we wish you and your families, good health, happiness, homeliness and prosperity, optimism and inexhaustible vital energy.

V.A. Satskiy, Chairman of the Board of Zaporizhstal JSC

L.A. Bezlepkin, Chairman of the Trade Union of Zaporizhstal JSC.