enterprises operating with ferrous scrap in 2024 sharply increased exports of strategic raw materials for metallurgical enterprises – by 60.6% compared to 2023 – to 293.1 thousand tons (in 2023 exports amounted to 182.5 thousand tons, in 2022 - 53.6 thousand tons).
According to the Ukrainian Association of Secondary Metals (UAVtormet), scrap harvesters last year increased scrap supplies to Ukrainian metal enterprises by 29.8% compared to the previous year, to 1.343 million tons.
The technological reserves of ferrous scrap at the enterprises were estimated at 40-50 thousand tons at the end of the year. At the same time, the estimated technological needs of Metallurgists in this raw material, according to the Association, are fully met, with an excess of 3.5-5.2%.
By the end of last year, the volume of ferrous scrap procurement increased by 37%, to 1,749 million tons. According to Uauthormet, this trend is due to an increase in steel production at metallurgical and foundry enterprises with a corresponding increase in scrap consumption, as well as the export opportunities of Ukrainian procurement companies during the reporting year.
scrap imports in 2024 amounted to 1.2 thousand tons, in 2023 - 1.1 thousand tons.
It is also stated that steel production last year amounted to 7,575 million tons, which is 21.6% more than in the previous year.
According to the forecast, Ukraine will produce 6.5-6.8 million tons of steel in 2025 (6.228 million tons were produced in 2023, 6.263 million tons in 2022), and 1,450-1,650 million tons of scrap metal (1 million 277.3 thousand tons in 2023, 996.7 thousand tons in 2022). It is also expected that metal enterprises will consume 1.1 - 1.2 million tons of scrap (in 2023 - 1 million 34.7 thousand tons, in 2022-895.7 thousand tons), export 300-350 thousand tons of scrap metal (in 2023-182.5 thousand tons and in 2022-53.6 thousand tons), again increasing exports. strategic raw materials for metallurgists. Scrap imports are expected to reach 1.5-3 thousand tons.
Earlier, the president of Ukrmetallurgprom, Alexander Kalenkov, stated in a column on the Interfax-Ukraine website (2: 19) that scrap metal is exported through the European Union, where there is a preferential export duty of EUR3 per ton, and from there the raw materials are redirected to real customers. He pointed out that it would cost EUR180 export duties to export raw materials directly to customers, and the Ukrainian budget has already lost UAH 350 million on this.
The head of Ukrmetallurgprom called for a temporary ban on the export of ferrous scrap in order to provide metal enterprises with strategically important raw materials during the war. He also clarified that a ton of scrap metal processed into steel provides the budget with ten times more than the export duty to the EU – up to $ 300 per ton.
