SIBUR youth teams became champions and prize-winners of the jubilee "CASE-IN"

The team of SIBUR's Kstovsky enterprise "Challenge accepted" became the winner of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the League of Young Specialists. Another SIBUR team representing ZapSibNeftekhim took the third place.

The composition of the "Challenge accepted" team: Denis Shiryaev, captain; Andrey Tyulin, Lyubava Bukhtoyarova and Alexander Khvalin. The mentor of the team is Gennady Grishin, Head of the Fixed Assets Management Service at SIBUR-Kstovo.

14 teams representing petrochemicals, oil refining and energy defended their projects in the championship finals. The decisions of the participants were evaluated by an expert commission consisting of representatives of public and scientific organizations, teaching staff of higher education organizations, as well as employees of leading industry companies.

The awards were presented to the winners by Artyom Ipatiev, First Deputy Director of the federal budget institution Center for Assistance to Young Professionals.

The team from Kstovo scored the most points according to a set of criteria. She also became the best in the criteria of "Environmental friendliness", "Economy" and "Presentation and performance". In the criteria "Technology" and "Answers to experts' questions", Kstovo residents showed the second result.

The SIBUR-Kstovo team defended a comprehensive solution for sorting, recycling and recycling of waste using plasma pyrolysis technology and separate collection of recyclable waste, which allows plastic, glass, metal and rubber to be recycled, as well as digital tools such as infrared sensors, video analysis, neural network and machine vision. The team members developed a roadmap, analyzed the economic indicators and risks of the project, and formulated the main results of the introduction of artificial intelligence into the waste recycling cycle.

"We are very pleased that we have won the main cup of the International CASE-IN Championship. The victory came in a hard struggle. The level of the competitors was higher – only the strongest teams came to Moscow, the jury was more demanding, and we had to answer difficult and interesting questions. Following the results of the qualifying stage, we significantly revised our project, took into account the questions of the expert commission, and delved deeper into the details. It helped to win. We are grateful to our mentor, the management of the enterprise and the company for their help in preparation and for the very opportunity to participate and prove ourselves. Many thanks to all the guys who supported us. It's great that two SIBUR teams were among the winners at once.", - Denis Shiryaev, the captain of the Challenge accepted team, told

The final stage of the International CASE-IN Championship in the League of Young Specialists was held at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys on May 27. It was attended by the winners and prize-winners of the regional stages held in the federal districts. The SIBUR-Kstovo team reached the finals as the winner of the regional stage in the Volga Federal District. This is the second team from the Nizhny Novgorod Region to win the League of Young Professionals. In 2020, the SIBUR-Neftekhim team from Dzerzhinsk became the champion.

"Congratulations to the team, fans, and employees of the company on their victory. The result is the work of dozens of people, a confirmation of the involvement of young people in real production projects. The experience gained during the championship is invaluable. It will be useful in analyzing and solving the problems facing SIBUR-Kstovo. Youth is the future of the plant, and I am glad that the Kstovo enterprise has this future," commented Sergey Nazarov, CEO of SIBUR–Kstovo.

A source