Ekotopfilm first in Bratislava, then in Kosice

Monday of this week saw the beginning in Bratislava of the 32nd international specialist film festival Ekotopfilm 2005, of which U. S. Steel Kosice is the principal sponsor. After Bratislava it will be Kosice people's turn to see the range of films on show in the historical Town Hall building on Main Street from November 8th to 11th.

External EMS audit

Early yesterday morning the second repeat audit of the environmental management system (EMS) in our company began. This is at the same time also an extension audit to meet the requiremments of the amended standard STN EN ISO 14001:2005. Over the course of three days the auditors are carrying out random checks on the state of the EM system in selected operations of the Hot and Cold Strip Mills, Surface Finishing, Dispatching and Metallurgical Products divisions, as well as several specialist units. Environmental protection is one of the six principles driving our company in its business activities, and so it is accorded great importance, as confirmed by the financially highly-demanding capital investment and modernization projects aimed at the ecological improvement of the technologies and processes in U. S. Steel Kosice.

Metallurgy Days 2005 in Kosice

The Metallurgy Days now have a tradition of several years, and this year they are taking place on November 7th and 8th on the premises of the Secondary Technical School for Metallurgy on Alejova Street in Kosice. They begin with the ceremonial assembly at 11am on November 7th, and at 3pm the Open Day starts, intended mainly for elementary school pupils and their parents, as well as the educational advisors for these schools. Other events on this day will be an open session of the members of the Hutnik ("Steelmaker") civic association and a pupils' inter-school basketball tournament.
The Metallurgy Days culminate on November 8th with the 7th in the series of official international specialist conferences, organized on the theme of "Youth - expertise - choice of vocation" and attended by representatives of state and social organizations, universities and U. S. Steel Kosice, as well as foreign guests, teachers and pupils of the Secondary Technical School for Metallurgy. The highlight event of the Metallurgy Days will be the traditional Sachtak or guild celebration, beginning at 5pm on November 8th at the Hutny Projekt building in Kosice.

Third evening for long-serving empoyees

On Friday of last week the premises of Ferrocentrum Social Club were filled again, for the third time this year, with long-serving steelworks employees, so that they could celebrate together with their colleagues and U. S. Steel Kosice management members their 30th, 35th and 40th years of work at the Kosice steel plant. Nearly two hundred celebrators from the Power Plant, Services, Mechanics, Repairs and Metallurgical Products divisions took their seats for the evening in the grandly-decorated Social Club hall.
The "youngest" among them, with 30 years of employment, received letters of thanks and silver commemorative plaques at the entrance to the hall itself. All the women were also complimented with a red rose. As the evening went on, their longer-serving colleagues, women with 35 years and men with 40 years of work for the company, were also presented with similar letters of thanks and gold commemorative medals, and they received an additional gift of a wristwatch engraved with their own name. The steelworkers were also thanked for their loyalty to the firm, as on the previous occasions, by U. S. Steel Kosice President David H. Lohr.