According to the company, it has deployed a fleet of eight drones -- soon to be 10 -- that watch scrap being unloaded and look for non-metallic items in the deliveries.

“The task of the drone is to hover over the unloading vehicle and record its contents. All information is uploaded to the operator-controller's automatic workplace to determine whether the scrap corresponds to the supplier's promised delivery. If there is waste or any non-receivable material present in the delivery, information about this material, verified by photo or video recording, will be sent to the counterparty's personal account area. In this occasion, MMK does not pay the supplier for this waste material,” the company said. 

It said that since the fleet was deployed in May, MMK has saved more than RUB100 million, the equivalent of US$1.3 million, through scrap rejection and reclassification.