A team of young specialists from the EPM Group joins the finalists of the CASE-IN

On August 20, 2020, the final of the NPC 2.0 "Production of the Future", a scientific and practical conference of young specialists, was held in Moscow. EPM Groups. The conference was operated by the Foundation "Reliable shift."

The winner of the conference, the Sixth Element team, will participate in the League of Young Professionals competitions.  The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN".

The purpose of the NPC 2.0 "Production of the Future" conference is to identify active, purposeful, and leadership-minded young specialists of the company.

The conference participants spent a month developing projects for the development of the company's enterprises under the guidance of a mentor and a scientific supervisor.

During the final, the teams presented their ideas to the experts, the heads of the EPM Group companies.

CEO of EPM Group Nikolai Naumov highly appreciated the conference: "The conference went very well, it was nice to see the "old–timers" of the NPK - the guys who participate in the NPK for the second or third time and who do not run out of ideas and desire to participate in the company's activities.". Nikolay Naumov also noted the key role of mentors who helped teams develop serious solutions and achieve success.

The Sixth Element team took the first place in the NPC 2.0 "PRODUCTION OF THE FUTURE" Kirill Abdrakipov (Doncarb Graphite LLC), Sergey Artamonov (EPM-NEZ JSC), Evgeny Martynov (EPM-NEZ JSC) and Yulia Uryumtseva (EPM-NovEZ JSC). The team was led to victory by their mentor, Irina Kalaida, head of the Scientific Research laboratory of EPM-NEZ JSC. The participants developed a project for EPM-NEZ JSC "Improving the quality and reducing the cost of production of graphitized electrodes at the Mixing, Pressing (TWC) processing plants".

"We are glad that the experts highly appreciated our decision. We did well! But everything is just beginning, now we will prepare to participate in the International Engineering Championship."CASE-IN», - the winners comment.