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The Iron Ore Rally is Looking Shaky as Futures Plunge in Overnight Trade

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The iron ore price fell for a second session on Wednesday, with Chinese futures pointing to more significant declines to come.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

China Coal Energy Co. Posts Huge Loss In 2015

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China Coal Energy Co. (OTCMKT:CCOZY) posted a huge loss and shrinking revenue in Y 2015 as the saturated coal industry has begun to bite into corporate profitability.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Ukraine's January Exports of Ferrotitanium Increased to 200

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Ukraine's exports of ferroalloy in January fell by 40.1% year-on-year to 50,750 mt the state statistics service reported Tuesday.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Top Four Vanadium-producing Countries in 2015

China was the world’s top producer of vanadium in 2015, putting out 42,000 MT of the metal. That’s slightly off from the 45,000 MT it produced in 2014, but still ahead of the rest of the world by a large margin.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

United States steel mills may raise rebar prices

Last week, United States Steel Mills raised rebar prices were at US$20-30/short ton, ex-factory prices. Due to higher scrap prices, buyers had expected the steel mill will increase April steel prices, but buyers will not accept prices increased by US$20-30/sho...

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Investment-Grade Arconic Shines From Alcoa Split

Metal businesses, whether in steel or aluminum, have two distinct business models. One is the integrated model, like erstwhile Alcoa, and secondly, we have the disintegrated model (separate upstream and downstream). Both these models have pros and cons, but th...

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Formosa Ha Tinh Steel plans to begin blast furnace ignition in June

Formosa Plastics Group has announced to begin blast furnace ignition at its Vietnam Ha Tinh Mill in June this year. Since the construction of the steel plant beginning in 2012, due to political and construction issues, the construction progress has not bee...

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Japan’s crude steel production down in Feb m-o-m

According to Japan Iron and Steel Association, in February of this year, Japan’s crude steel output was 8.355 million tons, down by 4.8% month on month to 422,000 tons less than last month; the average daily output was 288,100 tons, an increase of 1.8% month ...

Wednesday, March 23, 2016
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