Metinvest-resource company, which ensures the supply of ferrous metal scrap to the enterprises of the Metinvest group, expects a significant shortage of scrap metal in 2025, said the director of the company Ivan Kovalevsky during the UAVTORMET meeting.
in particular, in This year, Metinvest predicts the growth of domestic scrap consumption in Ukraine to 1.73 million tons and plans to bring its own use of scrap to 580 thousand tons. In particular, scrap metal on certain processes is now not formed, so the volume that we had previously had at the expense of our own resources should now be replaced and buying from the market, ”Kovalevsky explained.
he noted, That this year the company has encountered significant difficulties in providing the needs of metallurgical production in scrap metal, and the group plants were forced to work with wheels and sometimes, due to the lack of raw materials, passed from the production of more marginal steel products to the production of commodity cast iron.
In addition, he drew attention to the problem of lack of personnel in scrap metal due to war and mobilization, as well as such problems as an increase in the cost of production, an increase in logistics costs, etc.
Recall, the UAVTORMMMEM predicts that in 2025, the workpiece of scrap metal by Ukrainian companies will be 1.45-1.65 million tons.
