January — Byelorussian Steel Works became a laureate of the competition “Best Goods of the Republic of Belarus”: the winner in the nomination “Industrial and Technical Products” was recognized as low-carbon steel wire for general purposes in accordance with GOST 3282-74. Based on the competition results, Byelorussian Steel Works was also awarded the “Stable Quality” Diploma
January 13 — Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology Shlychkov S.V. held a meeting with the labor collective and got acquainted with BSW work
January 25 — Minister of Finance of the Republic of Belarus Seliverstov Yu.M. held a meeting with the team of Planning and Economic Analysis Department
January 26 — Byelorussian Steel Works was visited by students of Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after M. Tank - participants of the 58th “Star Tour” to the places of military and labor glory of the Belarusian people
February 1 — The 40th anniversary of Supply Department
February 10 — The 25th anniversary of Production Department
January 31 — The 20th anniversary of Marketing Department
February — Byelorussian Steel Works presented innovative products at the exhibition “Intellectual Belarus”: steel cord for large and extra-large tires, as well as fine wire for cutting crystals of very high strength
February 23 — Members of the primary trade union organization took part in the youth intellectual and entertainment quiz “Quiz pliz” among the youth activists of the primary trade union organizations of the Gomel region. The Iskriki team of Byelorussian Steel Works toke the second place, and the third prize was won by MetallurgSotsService
February 28 — Byelorussian Steel Works hosted the 1st seminar of managers and specialists of testing plant laboratories, which brought together representatives of 14 industrial enterprises of the country
March 6 — Five BSW women became laureates of the branch stage of the republican competition “Woman of the Year”, which was held in Minsk with the participation of the Chairman of the Council of the Republic N.I. Kochanova and the Minister of Industry Rogozhnik A.N.
March 7 — The ceremony of awarding the title of “Woman of the Works” was held for ten BSW women
March 17 — The 40th anniversary of Labour Organization and Remuneration Department
March 17 — Maxim Andreev, a specialist in maintaining social networks of Information, Ideology and Personnel Development Department, became the winner of the Zhlobin native-2023 town competition
March 24 — The Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on International Affairs and National Security S.A. Rachkov met with BSW employees
April 15 — According to the results of the Republican professional competition for the award for achievements in construction "Leaders in Construction" in 2022, BSW was awarded the Diploma of the winner of the 1st degree
April 15 — Within the framework of regional Quality Day at Gomel Center for Standardization, Metrology and Certification, the results of 2022 were summed up and the winners of the Republican contest "The Best Goods of the Republic of Belarus" were awarded. Low-carbon general-purpose steel wire as per GOST 3282-74 nominated for participation by BSW was recognized as the winner in the nomination "Industrial and technical products" and was additionally awarded the diploma "Stable quality".
April 24 — ‘Metallurg’ ice-hockey team defended its champion title: defeating ‘Neman’ on their rink with a score of 1:0, hockey players became three-time champions of Belarus, adding a new trophy to the victories of 2012 and 2022
May 10 — 40th anniversary of Equipment purchasing dpt
May 13 — For the contribution to implementation of the state information policy, the the content of ‘Metallurg’ newspaper, the Gratitude from Gomel Regional Executive Committee was announced
May 17 — BSW held an expanded field event "Labor Safety Day of Gomel Region", in which representatives of regulatory authorities, deputy chairmen of Gomel city, regional executive committees and deputy heads of administrations of Gomel districts in charge of safety took part
May 19 — The winners of the contest "The Best Metrologist" were awarded, organized by the Gossstandart of the Republic of Belarus. Nikolay Bessonov, Deputy Chief Metrologist, of Chief Metrologist dpt., received the title of "Best Metrologist" in 2023
May 20 — ‘Minsk Bearing Plant’ celebrated their 75th anniversary
May — At the XXIII International Scientific and Technical Conference of Young Workers in Magnitogorsk (RF), two factory workers were awarded: the report “Development of rail steel grades at OJSC “BSW - management company of ‘BMC’ holding” of a process engineer of the first category of the steelmaking department in technical dpt. Ilya Pisarenko was recognized as the best research work in metallurgical section, and the report on the topic "Development of the optimal conditions for cooling coiled steel (ШХ15) for subsequent spheroidizing annealing" by the process engineer of the rolling department in technical dpt. Sergey Savchenko took second place in the rolling section
May 30 — The plant’s primary organization was among the winners of the republican competition for the best organization of work in safety among the organizations of the trade union "BELPROFMASH"
May 31 — The BSW sanitary team became the winner of district competitions among civil defense sanitary units, and on June 30, the BSW sanitary team took 2nd place in the regional competitions of the best civil defense units of Gomel region. The title of the best sanitary officer of Gomel region was given to environmental protection engineer of Steel wire shop-1 Natalia Tarasenko
June 1 — On the International Children's Day, a presentation of an exhibition of children's drawings was held following the results of the contest "I want to be a metallurgist". This year, 61 young artists took part in the traditional event. Under the terms of the competition, the best works will be in the corporate calendar of children's drawings for 2024
June 5 — BSW employees and their children took part in a volunteer environmental event at the Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, dedicated to World Environment Day, organized by the UN Global Compact Network in Belarus
June 15 — BSW was visited by Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of the Republic of Belarus A.I. Bogdanov
June 22 — For the first time BSW held the Head's Day, which united the heads of organizations of the Zhlobin region
June 24 — The creative team of BSW took 1st place in nomination "Vocal" in the VII Music Festival "We are united - we are youth!", which was held in Mikashevichi
July 2 — Utilities shop celebrated its 40th anniversary
July 3 — Energy saving bureau was created 20 years ago
July 11 — As part of the festive events dedicated to Metallurgist Day, a gala night was held in honor of labor veterans and the labor dynasty of BSW. In 2023 the family of Gubina Lubov Ivanovna was awarded the title of honor ‘Labor dynasty of BSW’
July 11 — Mill 150 of Rolling shop-1 produced 10 mln. tons of products. Jubilee product was wire rod 5,5 mm which made its way to Steel wire shop-3 for downstream operations
July 14-15 — Festivities devoted to the professional day of Metallurgist: track and field relay race for general director's prize; meeting at memorial board of the first director of BSW D.L.Akopov; gala night and festive concert with entertainers from Belarus and Russia; quest for children ‘Metallurgist City’, entertainment programme ‘Family Parade’, etc.
July 15 — 40 years ago Chief Mechanics department was created
July 17 — Pipe shop was added to Zhlobin district Board of Honour
July 17 — The name of Victor Vopsev (an electrician of category 6 from the staff on duty in Melting shop-2) was added to Zhlobin district Board of Honour
July 27 — 35 years ago the contract was signed, i.e. to design, construct and commission the third stage of the plant on ‘turn key’ basis
August 2 — Members of the plant’s primary organization ‘Belarus Union of Women’ attended the meeting with the chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus N.I.Kachanova with activists of ‘Belarus Union of Women’ in Gomel region
August 4-6 — ‘Svarog 2023’ (regular festival of culture and sport for the youth) took place. More than 300 participants from 9 teams. Subject of this year ‘Super heroes. Power of Creation’. Iron Vikings (Pipe shop team) became winners. They got four Cups out of five
August 18 — A site tour was arranged for members of the republican press-tour of young journalists and bloggers ‘SEM-YA. Hospitable Gomel region’. They also visited BSW history museum
August 22 — BSW was awarded in nomination ‘Development and introduction of unique technologies’ at XVII Republican environmental forum and II International specialized environmental exhibition ‘ECOLOGY EXPO-2023’
August 25 — Labor dynasty of BSW took the 1st place in industrial competition of the Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Belarus ‘Labor Dynasty -2023’
Septeber 5 — Steel-makers took 2 top places in competition ‘Prom-style-2023’, devoted to Mechanical Engineering Day: the 3rd place for vocal ensemble of singing metallurgists of Sergei Kanoda, Oleg Pekurin and Denis Portnov, as well as the 3rd place in nomination ‘Solo’ for Angelina Uberti (supervisor in Packaging & Dies shop)
Septeber 6 — 40 years ago Railway shop was created
Septeber 27 — According to the results of the annual award “Leaders in Construction 2023”, BSW became the winner in the nomination “Company of the Year - a leader in the production of building materials and products” in the category “Production of metal products for construction”
Septeber 29 — The first ceremony honoring BSW athletes “Heroes of Sports” took place
October 6 — BSW hosted Young Specialist Day. The highlight of the day was signing a ‘Golden Contract’. Now the names of 104 young specialists are written down in to the history of the plant with golden letters.
October 11-14 — BSW hosted XXII International science-technical conference ‘Metal’. More than 80 papers were presented showing the future of metallurgical sector. 59 BSW employees and 25 speakers took part in the conference. 7 among them represent industrial companies and higher educational establishments in Belarus. Zhlobin was visited by 17 speakers from Russia, representing both metallurgical companies and research institutes and one representative from Chinese company.
October 12 — Head of standardization bureau (Technical dpt.) Alexandra Erashova is the winner in republican contest ‘The best specialist in standardization’ 2023.
October 20 — As part of Week of parental love, the contest of the district scale ‘The best young family in Zhlobin-2023’ was held where the family of BSW employees, namely Anton (shop for process-related vehicles) and Ekaterina Babrovskih (central in-house laboratory) took the 2nd place.
November 11 — ‘Hilton’ hotel hosted award ceremony for winners in annual Republican contest ‘Leader in energy-efficiency in Belarus – 2023’. Final event of the contest was timed to coincide with International Day of Energy saving. The project presented by BSW ‘Implementation of VFD on the motor of the main drive of the fan in Fume treatment plant-1’ was the winner in nomination ‘Leader of energy efficiency in metallurgy’.
November 7-10 — ‘Metallurg’ paper was awarded with Diploma at the International industrial exhibition ‘Metal Expo’ in nomination ‘The best corporate media in metallurgical sector in Russia and CIS-2023’. This is the fourth high award of BSW corporate media over the whole history of this contest.
November 1 — At solemn meeting in Gomel devoted to the 105th anniversary of All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, the head of bureau for the youth development (Information, Ideology & Personnel development dpt.) Andrei Ananchikov was awarded jubilee diploma and jubilee mark ‘85 years of Gomel region’.
December — BSW received diploma as award winner from the Association of foundrymen and metallurgists for implemented project ‘Complex reconstruction of Fume treatment plant-3’ which is hugely important as it improves environmental situation in the town and the district. The following authors received their awards: Nikolay Anelkin, Dmitry Borisovets, Vyacheslav Dyachenko, Gennady Shamaev, Igor Ivanov, Sergey Konovalenko, Andrey Bondarkov and Alexander Bugrimov.
The diploma of Laureate of the Prize from the Association of foundrymen and metallurgists in nomination “Best scientific and production work of a young scientist or engineer” for changing the design of the reinforcement lining of ladles in order to increase the lifetime of the working lining was awarded to the team of BSW authors consisting of: Alexander Chaevsky, Sergey Konovalenko, Alexander Bugrimov, Artem Turygin.
December 8 — The annual ceremony of honoring the laureates of the “BSW Youth Prize-2023” took place in three categories: “Towards Steel Heights”, “Impeccable Work” and “Energy of Victory”.
December 8 — Operator of pulpit in hot rolling mill Rolling shop-2 Denis Portnov won the Grand Prix at the XXV regional festival of the Afghan song “Time has chosen us”.
December 14 — A presentation of BSW corporate calendar for 2024 took place, the main theme of which was the various interests and hobbies of the company’s employees.
December 19 — Metallurgists won the sectoral competition “TechnoElka-2023”, presenting to the jury an original nesting doll Christmas tree of steel, which on the eve of the holiday was handed over to Zhlobin Social and Pedagogical Center.