The Chinese total export volume was 71,866,000 tons from January to August, up by 26.5% year on year, while the output of crude steel was 543,020,000 tons, down by 2% year on year during the same period. Chinese iron and steel market obviously shrank in 2015. ...

The Chinese total export volume was 71,866,000 tons from January to August, up by 26.5% year on year, while the output of crude steel was 543,020,000 tons, down by 2% year on year during the same period. Chinese iron and steel market obviously shrank in 2015. ...

Recently, ferroalloy industry has run into a stone wall, such as electrolytic manganese metal (EMM). In China, the main price of electrolytic manganese flack 99.7% is about RMB9,300-9,400/mt, some people even predict that it may decline to below RMB9,000/mt, a...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is said that South Africa manganese ore miner, UMK unveiled November manganese ore shipment to China. The price of Mn37.5%Fe5% was dropped to USD2.6/mtu,.from USD2.65/mtu (CIF,China)

[Ferro-Alloys.com]TISCO released its tender price of high-carbon ferrochrome in October, which decreased by RMB150/T Cr 50% basis to RMB5,800/T, and the mill will purchase about 60,000 tonnes of high-carbon ferrochrome in the month, decreasing by 10,000 tonnes...

Ferro-Alloys.com] In term of manganese ore downtrend market, ample supply but slowing growth of steel in China aggravated manganese alloys competition. In fact, cut-throat competition allowed alloys producers to focus on several factors to gain profit.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Now the price of silicon metal kept stable and the downstream demand was not enough,so the price increased weakly.

[Ferro-alloys.com] Most steel mills are losing money and they have trimmed or are trimming production. This directly caused ferrosilicon enterprises to change their production plan. Steel mills mostly voluntarily trim or halt production and it led to the decre...