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Dimeca will launch a mega crusher of metal scrap in Mexico-有色金属展-铜材展-2025年广州国际有色金属工业（铜业）展览会 -The 25th China(Guangzhou) Int'l Non-Ferrous Metals (Copper) Exhibition
7/22/2024 有色金属展-铜材展-non-ferrous metals expo |
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The Mexican company Distrilbuidora de Metales y Cartones, better known as Dimeca, is a few days away from starting theoperation of a unilgue monster in Mexico, a mil with the capacty to crush 70 metrc tons (mt per hour of metal scrap. somethinglike 200 vehicle per minute. The new plant is in the northern city of Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, company founder Ricardo de la Peiatold SteelOrbis.
With 30 years in the market, Dimeca has 15 warehouse yards, all equipped with machinery to process ferrous and non-ferrousmetals. Currently its processing capacity is between 980.000 metric tons (mt) and more than a milion mt per year.
Canacero says that 10 milion mt of scrap are consumed per year. Analysts say that more than 12 milion mt are consumed and ofthem, 8.0 percent is exported and 25 percent is imported.
The project from the purchase announcement to the operation required 21 months (from October 2022). For security reasons inMexico, De la Pena requested not to talk about investment amounts, but said that his company will have the largest processingplant in Mexico.
Given the size of Dimeca and that metal scrap is a fundamental input in the decarbonization route not only in Mexico, but in theworld, and therefore the processor could be an object of desire for large global investors. However, De la Pena says that he will notsell the company because he also has major expansion projects. He says that Dimeca "reinvests 80 to 90 percent of the net profitbecause there are always very aggressive growth plans”.
In a pleasant tone, the businessman with family roots in the metal scrap business says that Dimeca''s strategy is to "open one oltwo yards per year, equipped with crushing machinery. it curently has six yards in Coahula, four in Saltllo (eight miles from theDeAcero steel plant, one in Monclova (the home of AHMSA) that doubled its production capacity, and one in Torreon. in NueyoLeon, the company has three in Monterrey, in Guanaluato it has two vards, in Silao (city where a General Motors plant is locatedand Salamanca (city where Mazda has a production plant). And the next plans are León, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes (the home ofNissan), another one in Guadalajara, one more in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon and Puebla, the home of the Volkswagen automotiveplant.
With the new plant, De la Pefa says that no one in Mexico will have the capacity to process that level, which will have a purity likethat needed by steel mills for their clients in the automotive industry.
The new machinery will have separation lines for ferrous and non-ferrous materials. According to his estimates, there wil be arecovery of between 400 and 450 mt per month of zorba (mixture of metals).
In the interview, De la Pena made a quick calculation and estimated that the increase in capacity of all the steel mils in Mexico thathave made public their increased production will require between 1.0 and 1.5 milion mt of metal scrap.
To determine the price of this high guality scrap, many factors must be considered but it could range between MXN 7 300/mt andMXN 7.500/mt (between $390/mt and 401/mt, at today''s exchange rate. 18.72 pesos per dollar).
The businessman spoke out in favor of the free market, that is, he is against some countries that, considering metal scrap as astrategic input, prohibited its export. The ban could create some downward pressure on steelmakers.
Although he said that the sale of Dimeca is not in his plans. he does have the purchase of assets in the United States on his radalThe purchase will not be for the moment. but an area of interest is the border strip, athough he said that it could go further to thecenter.
Regarding the reference prices for scrap metal published by various specialized media, they are reference prices for buying from asupplier that has four or five trucks per month.
He said that Dimeca is in the lS0 9000 certification process. Regarding the processing capacity, he said that its own scrap isbetween 47 .000 mt and 48.000 mt. but he said that they also process material for some steel mills with a monthly volume ofbetween 35.000 mt and 38.000 mt.
In a period of five years, De la Pena expects Dimeca to process 750,000 mt of its own scrap, that is, almost 60 percent more thancurrent levels. The plan is to grow 10 percent in production capacity each year.
curently he serves about 140 conracts with industrial plants to purchase scran, which represents approximately 65 percent of hiown total. Domestic scrap (collected by small scrap dealers on the streets) represents 35 percent of the volume itself processed
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