Ferrous metallurgy in the CIS countries
Quite specific and succinct at the same time the industrial-technological level of the country – the number of lost wax casting in her cast iron. Soviet textbooks on the economy, he occupied a leading position and considered:
- as a parameter to increase the country's growth rate.
- As the indicator of welfare (used that expression – the number of smelted iron per capita).
- as a parameter an informal competition with the developed capitalist countries.
- List of all existing metallurgical enterprises of the CIS countries.
- Key performance indicators officially declared by metallurgists.
- In the Russian Federation is 20% of total exports.
- In Ukraine, 40% of all foreign exchange earnings.
- metal Exports of all CIS countries decreased by more than 1.5 times.
- the Total depreciation of production assets is 60%, what should be considered for blast furnaces as critical
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This information allows us to draw some conclusions about the state of the industry is not even a professional analyst, although the market economy and make their policy very significant adjustments.
Status to date and prospects for the future
Inherited from the collapsed Soviet Union power (furnace) for melting of cast iron continue to fulfill their duties regardless of the country in which they were geographically. But as with any technologically advanced production of metallurgical industry must be modernized and the numbers of a profitable part of forced to think about it, not only entrepreneurs. As an example, revenues from exports are:
the rate of development of sectors, consuming a significant amount of metal (motor vehicles, boat manufacturing, military-industrial production sphere) remain high:
World metal production increased by 11% (official data).
to remedy the situation may contribute to the increased demand of the world market on the structural, electrical steels and alloys, for production of which requires large-scale re-equipment of the industry. For example, in Ukraine the capital of retrofitting of 25 existing blast furnaces and the development not only of cast iron, but carbon steel.