OREANDA-NEWS. EUROCEMENT group's Corporate University trained managers, head mine surveyors, and head quarry engineers from the Holding's cement plants under the "Status and Prospects of Mining for EUROCEMENT group during the Construction of New 'Dry' Method Plants" programme. As part of the training programme for specialists, theory sessions and round tables were organized, as well as a tour of EUROCEMENT group's new high-tech plant at Podgorensky, Voronezh Region, which hosts the Corporate University.

The Holding is currently implementing an unprecedented programme to construct new cement plants using the energy-efficient and environmentally friendly "dry" method. The programme presupposes substantial investments in creating high-tech jobs and training specialists to work on cutting edge equipment. The Corporate University began work to realize this goal in 2013, and trains specialists year-round.

The training programme included an elucidation of the status and prospects of mining both for EUROCEMENT group and in Russia as a whole. The participants listened to a report on the experience reconstructing the mine at the new high-tech EUROCEMENT group plant in Voronezh Region. Thirty-three people participated in the event. Training was conducted both in person and via video conference. The use of online technologies can increase the effectiveness of training by involving all responsible and interested employees in the discussion without interrupting their work.

"These meetings and training programmes for head quarry engineers is extremely important and beneficial. They are used to discuss both current issues involved in working in the Holding's quarries, as well as to exchange experiences with new legal regulations and requirements and present new mining equipment. Furthermore, all participants discussed the details of their work in their own quarries with one another," Remarked the Director of EUROCEMENT group's Mining Department, Viktor Guskov.