Shmunk M.M.
EVALUATION OF EFFICIENCY OF METAL UTILIZATION IN THE RUSSIAN MACHINE INDUSTRY ^{[№ 11 ' 2008]}
The article covers issues of evaluation of technical and economic and institutional factors determining dynamics of metal use in national machine industry and efficiency of metal utilization according data received for 30 last years. The author compares the Russian and US metal utilization levels.

Tatarskikh B.Ya., Shmunk M.M.
QUESTIONS OF RESEARCH OF METAL ECONOMY FACTORS IN NATIVE ENGINEERING INDUSTRY ^{[№ 8 ' 2008]}
The questions of organizational-economic reserves search for metalpreservation in Russian engineering industry are regarded in this article. The authors mark the tendencies of steel intensity of engineering products allowing forecasting variants of steel intensity management in engineering complex. Also the effectiveness of NTP introduction in the sphere of metal consumption is shown, and the ways of further decrease of metal costs at production of engineering products are indicated in this work.