According to the statistics of Japan Customs, Japan’s ferromanganese import volume was 13829 mt in Dec, 2014 and was totally 134,475 mt in the whole year 2014, up by 3.9% Y-O-Y. The imports by counties were as follows

According to the statistics of Japan Customs, Japan’s ferroalloy export volume was 24,454 mt in Dec, 2014, more than 2 times than that in Nov, and down by 32.4% Y-O-Y. The total export the whole year of 2014 was 231,475 mt, slightly down by 3.6% Y-O-Y.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]MERAFE Resources’ full-year ferrochrome production volumes for 2014 were 5 percent higher than the previous year.

The management of BHP's spin-off of unwanted assets, South32, will have little choice but to chase acquisitions if they want to pursue growth, according to Deutsche Bank.

Sakura Ferroalloys SDN BHD is a joint venture between mining house, Assmang Limited (South Africa), trading giant, Sumitomo Corporation (Japan) and manufacturer, China Steel Corporation (Taiwan).

Instead of talking about market and price, quality was the key word at the 'Quality China' Solar Summit in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, which was held on Jan 15 and 16 and hosted by German testing and certification company TUV Rheinland.

Sakura Ferroalloys Sdn Bhd, which is expected to commission its manganese alloy smelting plant in Samalaju Industrial Park, Bintulu in October, is eyeing major steel manufacturers to sell its products.

International Ferro Metals (IFM) lifted ferrochrome production by a modest 3% to 49 800 t for the quarter ended December 31, despite the issuance of a Section 54 notice in November following a health and safety incident that led to two employees being exposed ...