VSW’s Central Lab Marks 85th Anniversary

Vyksa Steel Works (VSW Joint Stock Company, based in the Nizhny Novgorod region, part of United Metallurgical Company, OMK Joint Stock Company, Moscow) has celebrated the 85th anniversary of its Central Factory Laboratory. The celebrations took place at VSW’s Metallurgists’ Palace of Culture. Thirty-nine employees and veterans of the lab received memorabilia and letters of recognition from the Ministry of Industry and Trade and from VSW’s management for their contribution to the development of the factory and the metallurgical industry. “I congratulate the laboratory staff on this anniversary, and I wish them ongoing success in their valuable work. Every year, the lab staff holds over 900,000 tests of products manufactured at OMK’s factories in Vyksa. Their professionalism has a direct impact on the quality and consequently, on the demand for our wheels, pipes, and rolled stock on the domestic and foreign markets. The laboratory has over a thousand items of modern testing and measuring equipment to supervise the products’ compliance with the requirements of domestic and foreign standards. Over 800 million rubles have been invested in the lab in the last 10 years,” said Sergey Filippov, VSW’s Managing Director. Reference The Central Factory Laboratory is part of VSW’s Quality Directorate structure. There are nine units in the laboratory that employ 200 highly skilled specialists. These are laboratories for mechanical and corrosion testing, metal science and thermal metal processing, anti-corrosion coatings, an express laboratory, a united analytical laboratory, the laboratory of the Casting and Rolling Complex (CRC, based in the Nizhny Novgorod region, part of OMK) and the Heavy Plate Mill 5000, and a technical, supply and certification logistics service. http://www.omk.ru/en/OMK/Press-center1/News?subject=8a1d84a5-447a-48ca-8887-1e8c8da7594d