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ArcelorMittal Ostrava Celebrates 60th Anniversary

02/03/2012 - ArcelorMittal Ostrava held a commemorative event celebrating the 60 years that have passed since Stanislav Najvrt lit the first blast furnace in the presence of then-President of the Republic, Antonín Zápotocký.

ArcelorMittal Ostrava held a commemorative event celebrating the 60 years that have passed since Stanislav Najvrt, former employee of NHKG (today’s ArcelorMittal Ostrava), lit the first blast furnace in the presence of then-President of the Republic, Antonín Zápotocký.
 
Najvrt remembered the event together with representatives of ArcelorMittal at blast furnace no. 4. (Blast furnace no. 1 is no longer used; furnaces no. 2 and 4 are currently operated.)
 
After a visit to the furnaces, Najvrt together with two other former employees, Otakar Sládek and Antonín Berger, who worked at the construction of Nová huť, saw a few other selected shops. They were also able to see for the first time the new de-dusting technologies (bag filters worth a thousand million CZK at Sinter Plant North) and continuous casting technology.
 
The event concluded with a lunch.
 
ArcelorMittal Ostrava a.s. is the largest metallurgy company in the Czech Republic and belongs to the world’s largest steel group, ArcelorMittal. Its annual production is 3.6 million tonnes of steel, about 50% of which is exported to more than 50 countries worldwide. It employs nearly 5000 people, and together with its subsidiaries nearly 9000 people.