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On the site of Pervouralsk Pipe Plant (PNTZ, part of ChelPipe Group), AQA Genesis, a modern water refining system, has been launched to provide a “green” water supply circuit for pipe production processes and to significantly reduce the plant’s environmental footprint. RUB 520 million was invested in the facility commissioned as part of AQA, a multi-phase programme to upgrade water systems of ChelPipe Group’s assets.
Dmitry Kobylkin, Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, and Vasily Osmakov, Deputy Russian Minister of Industry and Trade attended the ceremony online. The facility launched by Yevgeny Kuyvashev, Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, Andrey Komarov, Chairman of ChelPipe Group’s Board of Directors, and Danila Shestakov, an activist of the City of Leaders social movement.
AQA Genesis is based on the best available technologies and uses Russian-made latest generation equipment – an automated process monitoring and control system, which records every parameter, related to water quality and consumption. Every hour, AQA Genesis withdraws water from PNTZ’s pipe rolling process, exposes it to multi-stage treatment – sedimentation, reagent treatment, clarification, cooling, removal of sediments and oil products – before returning it to the facility for reuse.
AQA Genesis will recycle 33,000 cubic metres of water per day, reduce the asset’s industrial effluents by 30%, the content of suspended solids in water sevenfold, iron – sixfold, and oil products – more than hundredfold. AQA Genesis provides a recycling water supply solution to minimise river water usage.
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation attends official launch of AQA Genesis, ChelPipe Group’s new METAllurgy facility
- Andrey Komarov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ChelPipe Group;
- Alexander Fedorov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pervouralsk Pipe Plant;
- Boris Kovalenkov, CEO of ChelPipe Group;
- Dina Mikryukova, Director for Economic and Strategy Control of ChelPipe Group;
- Vadim Makhov, Professor of Business Practice at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO (independent director);
- Regina von Flemming, member of the Board of Directors of MTS PJSC (independent director);
- Douglas Gardner, member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Kaspi.kz and Managing Director of CAIGAN Capital (independent director).
The three independent directors will oversee three of the four Committees of the Board of Directors: Douglas Gardner will chair the Audit Committee, Regina von Flemming will chair the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, and Vadim Makhov will chair the Strategic Planning Committee.
In addition, Michael Ruckman, President and Managing Director of Senteo Inc. and an international authority on customer experience management and client-centric business transformations, has joined the Strategic Planning Committee.
During the meeting, the Board also reviewed ChelPipe Group’s financial results for 2019, and approved the budget for 2020 and the Company’s new organisational structure. The new structure has been developed by management in line with the vision for ChelPipe Group’s strategic development, and is designed to support the implementation of key initiatives set out in the Company’s five-year strategy. Andrey Komarov re-elected as Chairman of ChelPipe Group

At the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi focused on the national projects, shareholder of ChelPipe Group Andrei Komarov took part in a plenary session entitled Factors of Success: Ideas, Personnel, and Competences. It was chaired by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Public officials, along with the expert and business communities, discussed plans for the implementation of key strategic development projects in Russia, in particular the national Education project. Among the participants were the Governor of the Perm region Maxim Reshetnikov, ASI Director General Svetlana Chupsheva, and President of the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management Marat Atnashev. The prime minister noted the importance of implementing practice-oriented educational programs and urged the real economy to be more actively involved in the development of the education system.
Andrei Komarov spoke about the work carried out by ChelPipe Group in this area in recent years, which has made it possible to achieve high results in training personnel and to build a system of continuing professional education in a single-industry city. He thanked the Government of the Russian Federation for supporting changes to the Tax Code, which made it possible to include the costs of employee training in the dual learning model in the category of production costs not subject to income tax.
Shareholder of ChelPipe Group Andrei Komarov gives a speech at the plenary session of the Russian Investment Forum
At the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi focused on the national projects, shareholder of ChelPipe Group Andrei Komarov took part in a plenary session entitled Factors of Success: Ideas, Personnel, and Competences. It was chaired by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
On February 2–3, the city of Ozersk (Chelyabinsk region) will become a venue for concerts given by the Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. ChelPipe Group Invites musical evenings are organized at the initiative and with the financial support of company shareholder Andrei Komarov. The tour of one of the most sought-after orchestras in Russia has became possible thanks to a cooperation agreement between the ChelPipe Group and the Administration of Ozersk in the field of culture, education, and social protection.
The concerts of the Russian Philharmonic Society will be held at the Mayak Culture Palace. The program will feature pieces by great composers performed by the musicians in the orchestra and the world-famous Russian performers: honored artists of the Russian Federation, laureates and prize-winners of international contests, such as Boris Andrianov (cello) and Elena Revich (violin). The main conductor is Fabio Mastrangelo.
The Russian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra will give concerts in Ozersk at the initiative of Andrei Komarov
On February 2–3, the city of Ozersk (Chelyabinsk region) will become a venue for concerts given by the Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.