Enterprises of chemical industry in the Volgograd region: system risks and conditions of development

In the article the causes of the emergence of systematic risks in the city forming enterprises of the chemical complex of the Volgograd region are analyzed. The shutdown of the leading enterprise “Khimprom” was due to an inefficient management, high power consumption, use of old technologies, chronicle lack of working assets, growth of the share of the semi fixed costs in the structure of the costs of production, constant growth of the costs of the working enterprises, growth of indebtedness, tax in arrears, fines. During several years the enterprise constantly used to make losses, to pile overdue liability to the power suppliers. This situation led to the initiation of proceedings of the bankruptcy against this enterprise, to the organization of the procedure of the competition management. Before the mentioned problems the enterprise controlled about one half of the market of some types of products. The enterprise “Kaustik” is the largest enterprise in the chemical production of the products of the industrial and technical use not only in the region but also in the chemical industry in the whole...