The Dzerzhinsky SIBUR-Neftekhim team won the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship

The team of SIBUR's Dzerzhinsk enterprise called Smart Upgrade became the winner in the League of Young Specialists of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in the field of Petrochemistry. The second and third places in this field were taken by representatives of the Gazprom Neft Scientific and Technical Center (Moscow) and the NIPIGAZ Engineering Center (Tyumen), which operates as part of SIBUR. This is reported by the company's press service. 

Speaking under the slogan "Getting better every day", the SIBUR-Neftekhim team, consisting of Maria Kazakova, Project office manager, Ivan Shiryaev, Head of the Planning and Maintenance Department for fixed assets, Alexander Kuzmin, a leading engineer at the electrotechnical laboratory, and Anton Smirnov, head of the energy production shift, presented the project "City of Youth 2.0 - a corner of Europe in the Far East" to the jury. In the East." 

The contestants have developed a plan for the sustainable development of Komsomolsk-on-Amur - industry, natural environment and infrastructure of the city. For this purpose, the best available technologies were selected and adapted to Russian realities in the field of closed-loop production, reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, use of wind energy, recycling of garbage into electric and thermal energy, and agricultural waste into mineral fertilizers. 

"This is a great personal and team achievement for each of us," said Maria Kazakova, captain of the Smart Upgrade team. - Firstly, the opponents looked very worthy, demonstrating a high level of preparation. Secondly, the experts on the defense took a very careful approach to each project. The questions I had to answer were not exactly easy and superficial. But we managed everything. This is the first big victory in the CASE IN finals, both for us and for the company." 

The project of SIBUR-Neftekhim employees became the best among the 19 solutions presented in the direction of "Petrochemistry" by the League of Young Specialists. In total, 133 teams competed for the title of the best engineering team. 

"In addition to deep professional expertise, engineers of the future must also develop soft skills - working effectively in cross-functional teams, addressing problems systematically and using data to make decisions. Participation in such championships as CASE IN helps to find talents in the labor market (SIBUR supports the Championship in three leagues at once: school, student and youth – ed.). Thus, by the end of 2019, 36 students completed internships at the company's enterprises, and 30 then got a job," said Albina Labashova, Director of Human Resources Management at SIBUR.

"The 2020 season has brought valuable benefits to SIBUR - we have managed to increase the engagement and interest in the championship among employees who participated in the League of Young Professionals. Their efforts were marked by the company's first victory in the finals. Congratulations to the SIBUR-Neftekhim company team from Dzerzhinsk," she added. 

CASE-IN is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource industries. The championship is one of the 25 projects of the national platform "Russia – the land of opportunities", aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions. 

This year, the finals of the CASE-IN championship were held in a mixed online and offline format. The participants defended the cases remotely, and the moderators were at the competition site at the University of MISIS in Moscow. 

Among the winners and prize-winners of the 2020 CASE-IN championship are several more Nizhny Novgorod teams. The "Big Bang Theory" team of the R.E. Alekseev NSTU won the Student League in the direction of the "Digital Atom". The team "Engineers of the Future" of the Dzerzhinsk Polytechnic Institute (branch) became the bronze medalist in the field of Petrochemistry NSTU. In the T Plus Special League, the second place was won by the Gorky STeam team of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of T Plus.

There are 4 SIBUR plants operating in the Nizhny Novgorod Region: SIBUR-Kstovo, RusVinil (Kstovo, SIBUR joint venture and Solvay), SIBUR-Neftekhim (Dzerzhinsk) and BIAXPLEN (Balakhna). The products of these enterprises are used in the production of antiseptics, medical products and protective equipment - masks, suits, gloves, shoe covers, packaging materials with barrier properties that allow to preserve the purity of water, food and household items.

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