INTERVIEW: ‘I am going to transform our company’ - Severstal CEO
By IM Staff
Published: Friday, 03 January 2020
Alexander Shevelev, CEO of Russian steelmaker Severstal, says that the company has changed its culture quite quickly and substantially to focus on being a solutions provider. Richard Barrett asked him to explain that mission and to recall his path from the shop floor to the top of a company that employs 50,000 people
First, a few key numbers. Russian steelmaker and mining
company Severstal produces 12 million tonnes of crude steel per
year, 17 million tonnes of iron ore products – half as
pellet and the rest as concentrate – and 4.8 million
tonnes of coking coal concentrate. It is a vertically
integrated...