By the beginning of 2014, 50 mini-mills are operating in the CIS sort steel market

A. Bayev, the director of Metal Expert Consulting has analyzed the changes at the sort steel markets in connection with appearance of the new production entities, at the conference ‘Reinforcement and sort steel: the Russian market configuration 2014’ in Moscow. By the beginning of 2014, 50 mini-mills are operating in the CIS market. Their total capacity is 35 million tons, and the total capacity of sort steel producers is over 140 million tons. The presuppositions for the construction of the new steel mini-mills were the need in the creation of the enterprises oriented to the production of special purpose steel, rolled steel made of special sorts, re-orientation of martin to electric steel, the provision with semi-finished rolled stock of own rolling capacities, regional disbalance – discordance of active capacities and the production volumes, the need for the utilization of available scrap metal to products with added value sold locally.