Resource Efficiency of Metallurgical Production

Abstract: The balanced development of the global community in the next decade implies the achievement of sustainable development goals by improving the efficiency of managing the resources in the economic, social and environmental spheres of human activity. The latter two are increasingly important as part of globalization processes, which inevitably affect the national economic, social and environmental agenda. The main measures of the state national policy of the Russian Federation are aimed at solving socioeconomic task to ensure that every person living in this country can use their right to a favorable environment. The timely solution of social and environmental wellbeing tasks as indicators of the population living standards is a priority task for the state bodies in the country’s regions in cooperation with top management teams of backbone urban companies that bear a major social and environmental burden. In the regions with metallurgical plants as dominant local companies, an increase in the resources management efficiency is especially significant. The pollution of atmospheric air and water, high levels of occupational morbidity and injuries caused by the wear of equipment and safety violations at production facilities, prevalence of mortality over births, intensive migratory outflow, depreciation of engineering infrastructure in the context of simultaneously growing industrial output reflect an unbalanced standing of metallurgical production regions and prevent their sustainable development. This study made it possible to develop a system of indicators for estimating the resource efficiency of metallurgical production. The system contemplates their grouping by development components. This allows managements teams to evaluate the contribution of each set of components to the resulting value, propose measures and benchmarks for optimizing the coefficients, identify business competitiveness improvement factors, determine investment targets, and also demonstrate to the global community the transformation of production and economic activities of the companies in line with the global resource saving and sustainability trends. © 2022, Allerton Press, Inc.