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.

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...

Kosaya Gora Iron Works Reduces HC FeMn Production

The biggest challenge facing South Africa’s ferrochrome industry was no longer China, but local energy supply constraints, chrome producer Afarak executive chairperson Dr Alistair Ruiters said on Wednesday.

With the ambiguity surrounding the imposition of antidumping duties on imported solar panels behind it, the Indian solar power industry is looking to refocus on growth and would install about 900 megawatt (MW) of solar power in 2014, a statement by Mercom Capi...

Smelters and foundries need support if they are to survive. As a start, Eskom has to sort out its electricity supply problems, and government’s R4-trillion infrastructure plan needs to get under way soon.

Ferro Silicon prices gain marginally on the ground of stronger buying activity. Market sources assume prices to remain stable and perhaps strengthen in the coming month.

In 1H2014, nickel revenue of Norilsk Nickel declined 3% y-o-y to USD 2.1 billion. Though the average realized price recovered by 3% y-o-y, nickel sales revenue was negatively affected by a 4.5% y-o-y decrease in physical sales volume. Nickel remained the larg...