By the end of 2015, there are about 30 enterprises still produce electrolytic manganese flake 99.7% products in China. Among them, Hunan has 11 plants, Guizhou has 6 plants, Chongqing has 5 plants, Guangxi has 3 plants, and other main producing regions have 8 ...

Ores and alloys producers have announced a swathe of new production curtailments in the past few weeks in response to poor market conditions.Three production cuts, in chrome ore, ferro-chrome and silico-manganese were announced on December 1 alone, although tw...

Major stainless steel mills in Southern China, such as Tsingshan Group and Baosteel, kept a rollover of their high-carbon ferrochrome tender prices in November, which brought support for the domestic high-carbon ferrochrome prices; however, major stainless ste...

A bullish outlook that will see nickel climb out of its current price slump and double in value to in excess of US$20000 a tone before March 2017, has been forecast today by market observer, Alto Capital.

Goldman Sachs on Thursday slashed its 2016 price forecast for nickel by more than 20%, primarily citing challenges to Chinese metals and mining demand.

The global nickel market should swing into a 23000 tonne deficit in 2016 from a small surplus in 2015, the International Nickel Study Group said on Wednesday, predicting that Chinese customers would drive an increase in nickel use.

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to the statistics of China’s custom, China exported 17,841.018 tons of ferrosilicon in August, 2015, descending 20.94%, m-o-m 22,565.711 tons; the volume of ferrosilicon (Si>55%) exported in Aug is 14,993.868 tons, and the export ...

[Ferro-alloys.com] Domestic output of ferrosilicon in Aug, 2015 rose slightly m-o-m, the total output is 415,000 tons, descending 2% y-o-y. From January to August, the total volume is 3,020,000 tons, falling 12.9% y-o-y.