South-East Asian market for ferro-silicon has been inactive since early September. After the Olympic Games came to an end, China's industry is gradually restoring, though...

Negotiations time on quarterly cost of South African charge ferro-chrome supplies to European consumers is getting close. At the start of Q3, acute deficit of ferro-chrome material was registered on the world market, and the level of spot quotations was considerably above the contract prices, which was the main reason for further increase of the benchmark contract price. The basic part of the European contracts in that period was concluded at $2.05/lb, up by $0.13/lb from April-June...

Very low level of spot activity remains in the Indian ferro-alloy market. The cut of finished products prices by steelmakers in Q3 is suggesting a drop in production in ...

Chinese ministry of commerce has published the requirements to the producing and trading companies willing to obtain licences for export of ferro-alloys in

The EU ferro-alloy market still remains in the doldrums. For the time being, there are just a few consumers showing interest in purchases, but according to the expectations, most steelmakers are to ...

In early September, Japanese market for ferro-alloys is expected to be calm, as well as in August. Most regional steelmakers have sufficient stocks and ...

EU has decided to postpone introduction of anti-dumping duties for silico-manganese, imported from China and Kazakhstan to September 6, 2009. Following the anti-dumping investigation ...

Chinese Trade Ministry has announced that in September it will start another phase of campaign aimed at limitation of exports of all ferro-alloy products. Export licences will be granted only to ...

By October 2009, Japan's largest ferro-alloy producer Nippon Denko is planning to expand the output of high-quality FeMn (Mn min 90%, C max 1.5%) at Tokushima plant by ...

Last week, the spot activity in the European market for ferro-vanadium decreased again. The absence of new contracts promotes fixing of quotations at early August's level ...

Since early August, spot activity has been minimal in Chinese market for ferro-alloys. A lull in the market resulted both from vacation season and the Olympic Games in Beijing ...

Since early August, a very low purchasing activity has been noted in the Turkish ferro-alloy market. The plants are still buying just small amounts and

Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and Manganese Ore India (MOIL), major state-owned companies of India, have signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a ...

In the second half of July, in spite of decrease of business activity in major global ferro-alloy markets, the growth of quotations for this material accelerates in China. Fundamental changes are being registered even in the segment of ferro-silicon, which is...

Last week, the Central Government of China announced the change of export quotas for ferro-molybdenum in H2. 19 companies, who have licenses to export molybdenum, got permission to supply abroad about ...