METAL SCRAP

タイトルまたは説明

Metallurgy is the largest key industry in the economy of Ukraine. Its importance is due to the fact that the machine building and metal-working industries depend on the production of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and that metal is the main source of engineering materials and an important export article. The metallurgy sector includes *4 integrated steel making plants, 7 pipe plants, *0 plants producing metallic articles, *6 merchant-coke plants, *7 refractory production plants, 3 ferroalloy plants, *0 non-ferrous metallurgical works, *5 factories reprocessing ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal, and other enterprises. The main raw material for ferrous metallurgy is iron ore. Ukraine is completely self-sufficient in iron ore, coke, manganese, and various supplementary materials. Kryvy Rih basin is the source of most iron ore (about *0%). It is the world’s largest area of iron ore extraction. From there, iron ore is shipped not only to Ukrainian plants, but also to the countries of Western and Eastern Europe. The vast majority of metallurgy enterprises of Ukraine are powerful integrated companies that produce over five million tons of metal per year. The largest of them are Azovstal, Zaporizhstal, and Kryvorizhstal. Three metallurgical regions have developed in Ukraine: Transdnipro, Donetsk, and Transazov. Two large aluminum and titanium-magnesium plants are situated in Zaporizhia. The aluminum plant gets its raw materials from Mykolayiv alumina plant, and the titanium-magnesium plant – from Irzhansk. Some **0 major enterprises operate in the extraction and processing of metals and in producing pipes and rolling stock. These include the world largest steel plants making cast iron, steel, rolled stock, steel bars and pipes in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Makiyivka, Mariupol and other cities.