160 Awards for the Company´s 60th Anniversary
Members of the company’s team are awarded as part of the company’s incentives system and its focus on acknowledging positive personal example on the occasion of Miners’ Day every year. The awards are based on nominations for outstanding professional accomplishments or long-term service of 25, 30, 35, 40, and 45 years within the company.
Awards were also bestowed for the first time to 36 veterans who started their professional careers at the very beginning of the company establishment on the occasion of the company’s 60th anniversary in 2025. “I am deeply excited to see that pensioner-veterans from 1964 have gathered here – the people who know how the foundations were laid and remember the long path of development we have travelled,” Dimitar Tsotsorkov said, while the Executive Director, Eng. Nikolay Peltekov, noted that these awards are a token of gratitude and respect.
Dimitar Tsotsorkov, Chairperson of the Supervisory Board, celebrated 25 years of service to the company; the Chairperson of the Management Board, Eng. Delcho Nikolov, celebrated 45 years and the Chairperson of the company trade union organisation of Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria - Federation of Independent Miners' Trade Unions, Marko Gerginski, celebrated 50 years as part of the Asarel team in its anniversary year. Following a poll among the senior management team, our Administrative and Regulatory Activities Director, Lushka Palankalieva , was acknowledged as the Best Manager, while the drill operator, Iliya Karadzhov, from Asarel Mine received the For Merits to the Company honorary badge. Volunteers who helped extinguish the fire near the village of Kovachevo were also applauded. The former students from the first class of the dual education programme, Neli Zapryanova from the concentrator plant and Atanas Proychev from the mine, were recognized as the best in their profession .
