The team of SIBUR's Kstovo enterprises won the bronze medal at the Autumn CASE-IN Cup

The team of SIBUR's Kstovo plants won the third place in the final of the League of Young Specialists of the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship.

The New Challenge team consists of Ekaterina Kholod (captain), an expert from the design department, Ilya Belyashkin, an expert from the project support department, Daniil Orlov, a leading process engineer, and Svetlana Ivanova, a remote control operator. Mentor: Andrey Tyulin, an expert in the Project support department.

The CASE-IN Championship has been held since 2013. The competitions are organized in three leagues, in which schoolchildren, students and young professionals compete. The main CASE-IN tournaments are the main season, the final of which is held in spring, and the Autumn Cup. This year, the Kst team took the fourth place in the main season and the third in the Autumn Cup, confirming its status as one of the strongest in the championship.

42 teams participated in the final of the Autumn Cup, all of them solved cases on the topic of "Lean Manufacturing" related to the implementation of the philosophy, principles and tools of the continuous improvement system. The assignments were developed by partner companies based on real production practice.

"We reached the final with a global solution that goes beyond the petrochemical industry: we proposed to organize the production of railway sleepers from polymers. They can be a better alternative to wooden and reinforced concrete because they are lighter, more durable and more environmentally friendly. The use of polymer materials will make railway logistics reliable and easy to maintain," said Ekaterina Kholod, captain of the team.

She noted that the championship is a real school for young professionals, an opportunity for teamwork and learning new technologies.

"This season, the team has introduced two companies at once – SIBUR-Kstovo and Rusvinil. The line-up has been updated: Ekaterina Kholod and Ilya Belyashkin have already performed at CASE IN tournaments - in the final of the autumn cup in 2023, the team with their participation took 2nd place. Daniil Orlov and Svetlana Ivanova participated for the first time. The guys complemented each other in their thinking, abilities and desire to win. We're all on the same wavelength. When solving complex engineering tasks, we get great pleasure from working in a cohesive team," said Andrey Tyulin, the team's mentor.

Currently, the team of Kstovo enterprises of the company heads the rating of the League of Young Specialists of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which is based on the results of performances in official qualifying and final competitions in 2019-2024. There are 233 teams in the League of Young Professionals ranking.

SIBUR-Kstovo and RusVinyl, SIBUR's enterprises operating in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod region– produce ethylene, propylene, benzene, aromatic hydrocarbons, PVC and caustic soda in an environmentally friendly and safe manner.

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