The Lion ferrochrome smelter owned and operated by the Glencore Merafe Chrome Venture, uses 37% less electricity than conventional ferrochrome processes to produce the equivalent volume of ferrochrome.
Like in so many other industrial commodities, China has surprised the world by the speed at which it has grown manufacturing capacity of ferrochrome, a stainless steel making ingredient. The surprise in this case is more since bereft of chrome ore, the Chinese...
Ministry of Commerce of China released export quotas on a clutch of primary products and industrial metals in 2015. Most of the industrial products such as tin, antimony, indium and silver were still keeping the export quota policy except for tungsten and moly...