The Production Association «Uralvtorchermet»* was founded in 1998 as a holding comprising metal scrap preparation and processing enterprises. The structure of the Production Association «Uralvtorchermet» consisted of large scrap processing enterprises with a long history, established in time when domestic metal processing industry started to develop. At present the association «Uralvtorchermet» enterprises are located in more than 30 Russian regions, where iron-and-steel scrap is collected and processed by approximately 200 production sites.Among consumers of the Production Association «Uralvtorchermet» products during many years are Severstal , Mechel , Magnitogorskiy Metallurgical Complex and other major Russian metallurgical enterprises.