Press releases

NLMK Group has ranked second among industrial companies in HeadHunter’s Rating of Russian Employers and came 13th overall among all Russia’s leading companies. The company also maintained its leadership in the maturity of HR processes in 2024.

NLMK Group ranked 14th in the Future Today rating of Russia’s best employers for 2025 in the “Best for Their Target Audience” category, and 2nd among metals and mining companies.

Forbes Magazine ranked NLMK Group in the leading Platinum group of best employers in Russia. This makes NLMK one of 26 Russian companies to be awarded the Platinum rank.

NLMK Group’s projects, implemented as part of the Clean Air Initiative, have significantly improved the quality of air in the city of Lipetsk. Emission reductions across the site’s major sources exceeded the original plan by 2.5 times.

NLMK Group has successfully achieved all key objectives as part of its Environmental Strategy 2023, reducing specific atmospheric emissions by 13%, increasing waste processing rate to 96% (recycling of secondary resources at 99%), and cutting discharges into water bodies in half.

NLMK Group transitioned to an advanced IT system for process management in its steelmaking operations, an MES. The MES enables planning and control of steel production, from the making of hot metal to the shipment of slabs to customers or into downstream processing.