Over the past four years, Ukrainian power plants have reduced 136 thousand people

Over the past four years, Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises reduced the number of employees by 136,000 people, writes the Vead Association in a fresh issue of December 28, 2012. The falling demand for metal distribution and the debt crisis in Europe is guilty of mass dismissals from the Ukrainian missile defense systems only partially, journalists emphasize.

The correspondent says that the owners of metallurgical plants, before the international crisis that erupted in 2008, unlike their colleagues from neighboring Russia, was in no hurry to invest in the modernization of enterprises, hoping that they could continue to receive superpoption due to high demand.

The sad result of the “pumping” of money today is as follows: for the production of 1 tons of steel in Ukraine, it takes 2.2 times more energy resources than in Russia, or 4.8 times more than in Poland. In Turkey, the cost of fuel is even less - 9 times, in the USA - 12 times.

Journalists found out that as a result of all the vicissitudes from national metallurgy, a massive outcome occurred. Over the four years of crisis, the industry lost 136,000 jobs. Dismissed employees went to look for happiness on the labor exchange. Some were lucky to stay in the profession, but for this I had to leave the country.

If in 2008 the volume of all Ukrainian smelting reached a record 42.8 million tons, then in the current one is only 32.6 million tons. The loss of the industry over four years is over 10 million tons. This is equal to the simultaneous disappearance of three metallurgical giants in Ukraine - Arselormittal Krivoy Rog, the Alchevskoye Met Complex and Zaporizhstali, combined. In monetary terms - this is about $ 9 billion a year - about as much as next year Ukraine should be paid on public debts.