Economic aspects
Traditional large integrated steel plants
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Economic aspects
Traditional large integrated steel plants

Author : Jacques ASTIER

Publication date: December 10, 2009 | Lire en français

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3. Economic aspects

For such plants, the economic aspects are naturally subdivided into four headings which concern, respectively :

  • staffing requirements and costs;

  • transaction costs ;

  • investments ;

  • and, in conclusion, the competitiveness of these large integrated plants.

3.1 The staff

This is one of the reasons why large integrated factories have undergone the greatest transformation in recent years: they used to have a reputation for being labor-intensive, and this was one of the characteristics of the great "Soviet combinats" or similar complexes in the "Third World" in particular. The explanation lies in two quite...

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