OREANDA-NEWS. April 15, 2011. Yury Zinchenko, earlier holding the position of Interim General Director of Khartsyzsk Pipe Plant of Metinvest Group, has been appointed as the General Director of the enterprise.

Yury Zinchenko possesses a vast practical experience in the steel industry. Starting 1997, he worked at Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, where he grew from blast-furnace forehearth operator position to the Head of the Technical Department. In April 2009, Yury Zinchenko was appointed as the Chief Engineer of Khartsyzsk Pipe Plant, and starting September 2010 – Interim General Director of the enterprise.

For the period of his appointment as the Interim General Director of Khartsyzsk Pipe, within the frames of the large scale modernization, reconstruction and equipment upgrade programme implementation, covering all Metinvest’s steelmaking enterprises, Khartsyzsk Pipe continued implementation of the production modernization and existing equipment reconstruction projects, products quality control based on the world standards.

Yury Zinchenko possesses two higher education degrees: in Ferrous Metallurgy and Foreign Economics.

“Appointment of Yury Zinchenko to the position of the General Director represents consistent progress of our continuous improvements, reconstruction and production capacity modernization programme of Metinvest aimed at successful realization of the plant’s and the whole Group development strategy. Yury Zinchenko has proven to be an experienced manager, whose efforts continuously facilitate Khartsyzsk Pipe to achieve its production expansion objectives, serious orders delivery and financial performance improvement, noted Aleksandr Pogozhev, Director fo Metinvest’s Steel and Rolled Products Division.