On March 29, the Annual Meeting of the Prommetiz Association was held in Moscow, at which participants discussed the situation on the Russian hardware products market, summed up the results of the Association’s work in 2017, and also outlined a work plan for 2018.
Boris Yarantsev, General Director of Prommetiz, presented a brief summary of the development of the industry to date, noting that the results of work in physical terms, unfortunately, show elements of stagnation: production volumes have remained at the level of 2.2-2.3 million tons for three years in a row. At the same time, if you look at sales of products in rubles for the same period, it becomes clear that there is a stable and significant increase in volumes: by 8% in 2016 and by 17% in 2017. Moreover, the figures for 2017 exceeded the figure of 100 billion rubles. and almost 70% exceed the results of the record year 2007.
In dollar terms, sales show a slight decrease of 2% in 2016. During this period, there was a historically highest average annual exchange rate - 67.0 rubles/$. Retains the record figures of 2007, since during this period there was the lowest (24.8 rubles/$) exchange rate. Indicators for 2017 demonstrate a significant, more than 30%, increase in product sales in dollars compared to the previous year.
“By analyzing the above indicators over the past three years, we can come to a certain conclusion,” said B. Yarantsev, “that if in 2016 there were still signs of stagnation, then in 2017 they were overcome and a trend of stable growth is emerging. This, by the way, is confirmed by the results of the first
