China will become the world's largest economy in 2024, as the country's consumer spending is expected to almost quadruple from 2013 to 2024, said IHS Inc., a global industrial data and analysis company, Friday （Sep 5th） in London.

China's exports in August rose 9.4 percent year-on-year to 208.5 billion U.S. dollars, with monthly trade surplus reaching an all-time high of 49.8 billion U.S. dollars, customs data showed on Sep. 8th.

The Fondel Group will buy a substantial stake in a joint venture to build and manage the first silicon metal plant in Iceland, with the aim of producing 44,000 tpy within five years.

In India, most of silicon barium materials are imported from China. The mainstream imported price of Silicon Barium in September was as follows, SiBa1-3# was at USD1700/mt CIF, nearly the same as that in August. However, some of the materials was transacted at...

In the first week of September, mainstream HC ferrochrome price remained the same as last week at RMB6,200-6,450/T. The price can neither rise nor fall due to the strong chrome ore price and weak downstream demand. HC ferrochrome is being normally produced in...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Although manganese alloys suppliers situation varies in different region of China, rising labor cost and capital pressure already approached to the bottom line that alloy producers could endure. In fact, too low tender price for steelmills a...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In recent period, it seems that poor performance of manganese alloys further wane traders’ confidence on push up sale price.

African Rainbow and Assore Ltd.â??s (ASR) Assmang unit produces manganese in the country, which has the world’s largest reserves of the steelmaking ingredient. Transnet Holdings SOC Ltd., the state-owned ports and rail operator, is spending about 16.9 billion...