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Severstal remains a global leader in efficiency, with the highest EBITDA margin in the steel industry globally, positive free cash flow generation throughout the cycle and a track record of achieving its targets. To deliver additional growth, the Company has updated its already proven strategy - retaining its fundamental advantages but adding new elements. Severstal's new vision is to be a leader of the steel industry of the future and the first choice for its customers, employees and partners. To achieve this, the Company is setting out new strategic priorities to distance itself further from its competitors. These are: superior client experience, cost leadership and embracing new opportunities. All three will be supported by Severstal's advanced corporate culture. Superior client experience - Severstal aims to offer our customers unique selling propositions on each target market; Cost leadership - Severstal's goal is to achieve a significant cost advantage in basic steel products; New opportunities - Severstal's objective is to access and consequently benefit from the use of global cutting-edge technology and new business-models. Implementing this set of objectives will support the Company in reaching its financial target of increasing EBITDA by 10-15% annually for the next 5 years. (This excludes pricing/macro factors.)

Metalloinvest is a leading global iron ore and HBI producer and supplier and one of the regional steel producers. Metalloinvest extracts and exploits iron ore fr om the second largest measured iron ore reserve base in the world with approximately 14.6 billion tonnes of proven and probable reserves on a JORC equivalent basis and about 150 years of reserve life. In 2012, according to CRU, the company was: - the leading producer of merchant HBI in the world - 40% share of the global market, - the third largest producer of pellets in the world, - the fifth largest commercial iron ore producer in the world. Metalloinvest is a global player in the production of iron ore products, processing the majority of its primary iron ore concentrate production into value-added products, such as iron ore pellets and HBI/DRI.

A flagship of the modern metallurgy of Azerbaijan Republic Baku Steel Company CJSC is the first up-to-date steelworks in the Caucasus region. The Company was inaugurated by the National Leader Heydar Aliyev on June 21, 2001. An electric arc furnace (EAF) with application of alternative energy supply, which is widely used in Germany, USA, France, Italy and other advanced countries, a ladle-furnace, cutting-edge continuous casting machine (CCM) are installed in Baku Steel Company LLC. Operation of the main power units in the process of steel melting is controlled automatically according to set programs. Using a state-of-the-art steelmaking and continuous casting technology the Company produces different grades of steel billets with cross sections of 120x120, 140x140, 150x150 mm and the length of 12000 mm and hot-rolled re-bars with diameters ranged from 10.0 to 32.0 mm cut to length of from 6000 to 12000 mm.