Abstract:

The mining and metallurgical complex and metalworking are the material and technical basis of Industry 4.0. These industries have quite significant contribution to the GDP of Asian countries, while the world metal trading has a considerable negative impact on the mining and metallurgical complex of Kazakhstan. The Republic of Kazakhstan possesses technologies for the production of a whole range of rare earth metals and elements and has its own raw materials (there are prospects for the production of tellurium, cerium, europium, lanthanum, samarium, gadolinium, yttrium and other metals, especially since many of them were produced for a long time). The country is ready to introduce modern high-tech schemes for processing and obtaining high-quality metals, allowing developing new industries, such as rare metal, radio engineering, nanotechnology, etc. Almost all metals and metal products produced in Kazakhstan are exported, and domestic demand is satisfied by imports. Analysis and review of production volumes and trade operations in the field of metallurgy in Asia and Kazakhstan revealed the most demanded metal products in the long term perspective: pipes, hollow seamless steel tubes and profiles; carbon steel rods; corners, shaped and special profiles made of carbon steel; alloy steel rods; hollow rods for drilling from alloyed or unalloyed steel. In our opinion, the existing innovation system is not ready for the introduction of breakthrough technologies in the near future; the transfer of technologies is difficult due to the existing counterparties: foreign investments of large transnational corporations are aimed at developing the raw material base and increasing production capacities. In this regard, state policy should be aimed primarily at the complexity and rationality of the use of natural resources. The main development directions of the mining and metallurgical complex of Kazakhstan and Asian countries are the advanced development of the mineral resource base, the creation of attractive conditions for direct investment in industries with high added value, the introduction of technical regulations and the provision of energy and transport infrastructure. This represents directions for further research.