The price of scrap metal has the most tragic: from 23-25 rubles. per kg a year and a half ago up to 10-11 rubles. for kg, i.e. More than 2 times.
Copper fell in price from 740-770 rubles. up to 620-630, and soon, as warned in reception, it will fall to 580-600 rubles. for kg. Not so tragic, but prices fall for aluminum, brass, lead, zinc, etc.
many sabotage the delivery of Chermet at such a price, believing that it will still increase soon. Recently I gave a video of one such collector who has accumulated Chermet already 10.5 tons. It can be understood: a year ago he would have handed it over 240 thousand rubles, now - only 110 thousand
this is an indirect indicator of the state of the metallurgical industry of Russia - it feels very poorly. Apparently, the production of “metal products of a certain type” has reached the limit and no longer forms increased demand. The construction forms a large demand for metals (reinforcement, a channel, etc.), and now it is also in a fall.
these walls may seem to us a trifle, but in general 1-1.5 million people are occupied in the collection of metals, and in previous years their income only in the devil amounted to 300-350 billion rubles. per year (color meter-another 150-200 billion rubles per year). The fall in Chermet's prices by more than two times means that they will not receive 150-200 billion rubles. For the garage economy of deep Russia, this is decent money.
In this situation, some collectors switch to waste paper. The prices for it are now good, so the country is prompted by marketplaces that need a lot of paper and cardboard for packaging from the processed waste paper.
For example, waste paper for white paper is now going on 18-19 rubles. for kg.
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