Metallurgical industry of the Sverdlovsk region in recent years demonstrates a decent pace of growth. According to the regional Ministry of industry, in 2010 the region implemented several major investment projects, which allows to predict the growth of demand for raw materials.
So, at the Nizhniy Tagil metallurgical combine has completed the reconstruction of oxygen-Converter plant, the production capacity of crude steel increased to 4.5 million tons per year. At Pervouralsk new pipe plant allowed electric furnace complex with an annual capacity of almost 1 million tons of billets per year. According to the Russian newspaper
Kamensk-Uralsky metallurgical plant completed the construction of a melting and casting unit 12 with a capacity of 60 tons. Total demand metallurgical giants in the raw material today is estimated at hundreds of millions of tons.
Valuable metallurgical raw materials, which allows not only to significantly reduce the use of natural ingredients in manufacturing, but also to reduce the environmental burden remains in the ferrous scrap.
In 1990-e years with the collapse of the system of voluntary-compulsory collection of recyclables, the market for the collection and primary processing of scrap has undergone a serious metamorphosis: the demand from the industry has waned, and to survive had only a small number of processors due to the export of scrap of ferrous and non-ferrous metals abroad. With the advent of the XXI century, the situation began to improve. And although until 2004, the export of scrap prevailed (in 2004, Russia ranked first in the number of exported scrap, beating even the United States), in subsequent years, the scrap processing industry gradually shift to the domestic market. The situation is exactly the opposite: consumption of scrap iron and steel production continues to grow steadily, the number of suppliers of scrap remains the same.
At the same time rely on the import of scrap Russian metallurgists do not have to import it from foreign countries are not profitable due to high transport costs. In addition, foreign suppliers prefer to sell the scrap in Europe, the Ukraine, Belarus, Turkey and China: Russia has a bad reputation because of the high customs duties and complex procedures of registration of documents.
7.4 thousand rubles the average price of a ton of black scrap in the Sverdlovsk region
In each region, with steel production, is your solution. In the Sverdlovsk region today are large enterprises of metallurgical processing, producing ready certified products and more than 200 small and medium scrap processing enterprises, providing satofumi materials the largest factories of ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy. The regional authorities together with the business not the first year trying to build a stable and transparent market for secondary metal, is able to meet the growing needs of metallurgists. However, hinder his difficulties, both objective and subjective.
The latter, according to an industry expert Alexander Trubenkova, can be attributed to the notoriety surrounding this market since 1990-ies of the last century, when the scrap metal stolen equipment from plants, power lines, rails, etc.
Negative attitude of citizens to the industry in General is projected onto deliverers of scrap metal. In Soviet times people were engaged in the delivery of recyclables deliberately, knowing that their personal contribution will benefit the society and the state. Now this is the position of the population of Western countries. However, the Russian is easier to throw away the unwanted piece of pipe, than to go and rent it.
Meanwhile, it is the people today supplies a significant share of raw materials for primary processing of ferrous scrap. 300 procurement sites in the Sverdlovsk region are from individuals old appliances and waste left over from repair of apartments, houses and garages: batteries, bathtubs, pipes, etc. the Problem that complicates the relationship between the population with processors of recycled materials, lies in the legislative field: the rules of reception of metal from private individuals coincide with those that govern the delivery of scrap by legal entities.
That is the grandmother who scrap their old battery, must pay the government 13% of income, but also to bring the passport and a bunch of documents confirming its right to the battery, to write a statement for delivery of scrap etc., says Trubenkov. It is clear that in such a situation a simple deliverers of scrap prefer to receive cash for your piece immediately on the spot and in cash in the underground point of reception.
The circle closes: most part of the secondary metal market is still profitable to operate in the shadows. To remedy the situation, experts say, the joint efforts by both Federal and regional authorities, including the establishment of a productive dialogue with businesses operating in the field of collection, reception and processing of secondary raw materials.