Health, Safety and Environmental Committee
October 26 2010 - 2:36AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 9938U
Evraz Group S.A.
26 October 2010
Evraz Creates Health, Safety and Environmental Committee and Appoints Vice
President of Health, Safety and Environment
26 October 2010 - Evraz Group S.A. (LSE: EVR) ("Evraz") is focused on increasing
the level of industrial safety, labour protection and care of the environment
across its international operations. Consequently, a Health, Safety and
Environmental Committee of the Board of Directors has been set up and the
position of vice president of health, safety and environment has been created.
The Board's Committee is composed of three independent directors - Gordon Toll
(Chairman), Karl Gruber and Terry Robinson.
Alexander Kruchinin has been appointed as Evraz's Vice President of Health,
Safety and Environment. Mr Kruchinin has extensive experience in these issues.
Before joining Evraz, he was responsible for industrial safety, labour and
environmental protection at Sakhalin-Energy,Ligett-Ducatt, DuPont de Nemours
International, UC Rusal, Integra.
Mr Kruchinin graduated from the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil & Gas. He
took an internship in The Fuqua School of business, Duke University, and is now
studying for his EMBA in the Higher School of Management at Saint-Petersburg
State University.
As Vice President of Health, Safety and Environment, Mr Kruchinin will be in
charge of Evraz's Russian and non-Russian operations.
Alexander Frolov, Evraz's CEO, commented: "The creation of a Board committee and
the role of vice president of health, safety and environment, who will report to
me directly, reflects the importance Evraz's management attaches to the issues
of safety, sustainable development and environmental protection."
"I am confident that the creation of the committee and Alexander Kruchinin's
vast experience in ecology and industrial safety will help further improve
safety standards at Evraz's operations, improve the ecological environment in
the regions where we operate and strengthen Evraz's position as a socially
responsible company."
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For further information:
Media contact:
Alex Agoureev
VP, Public Relations
+7 985
122 4822
media@evraz.com
Investor contact:
Alexander Boreyko
Director, Investor Relations
+7
495 232 1370
ir@evraz.com
Evraz Group S.A. is a large vertically-integrated steel, mining and vanadium
business with operations in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Europe, USA, Canada
and South Africa. The Company was ranked the 14th largest steel producer in the
world based on crude steel production of 15.3 million tonnes in 2009. Evraz's
internal consumption of iron ore and coking coal is covered by its mining
operations. Evraz's consolidated revenues for the six months ended 30 June 2010
were US$6,379 million and consolidated adjusted EBITDA amounted to US$1,554
million.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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