Trainees of the Part­ner­ing for Progress ini­tia­tive be­tween Met­al-X En­gi­neer­ing and the Youth Train­ing and Em­ploy­ment Part­ner­ship Pro­gramme (YTEPP) show off their skills while the com­pa­ny's CEO Labib Na­j­jar, left, YTEPP's com­mu­ni­ca­tions and mar­ket­ing man­ag­er Mont­gomery Guy, cer­ti­fied Welders and Fab­ri­ca­tors pro­gramme man­ag­er An­drew Alexan­der and project as­sis­tant Roger John Look on. A re­lease said five trainees took up em­ploy­ment at the com­pa­ny on Wednes­day af­ter the Part­ner­ing for Progress train­ing ini­tia­tive start­ed in April 2012. The state­ment said ten YTEPP stu­dents were based at Met­al-X En­gi­neer­ing for eight months. They re­ceived aca­d­e­m­ic and prac­ti­cal train­ing in the field of struc­tur­al fab­ri­cat­ing to the high­est in­dus­try stan­dards as set by the Amer­i­can In­sti­tute of Steel Con­struc­tion.