Samancor Chrome, the South African chrome mining company and ferrochrome producer on Friday issued a Section 189 notice to all the recognised unions representing staff across all operations and corporate office.

Vietnam Ministry of Price administration said in January this year, Vietnam steel production and sales were both down. Among them, Vietnam steel production was about 575,000 tons, down by 5,000 tons month on month; those for sales amounted to 540,000 tons,...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]OM Materials (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd-owned ferrosilicon alloy smelting plant in Samalaju Industrial Park, Bintulu has continued to ramp up its production as more new smelting facilities are commissioned.

The Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (Fimi) has called for the removal of 30 per cent export duty on chrome ore. Also, in view of the surging imports of both chrome and manganese ore, it demanded imposition of safeguards duty of 50 per cent on these two...

On February 2, Nippon Denko Co., Ltd. announced that it will post a non-operating expense and an extraordinary loss and make a downward adjustment on its anticipated business results before releasing its consolidated business results in the fiscal year 2015.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]World Steel Association(WSA) has announced on January 25 that global steel production totaled 1.62 billion tons in 2015, down by 2.8% year on year.

Ferro-Alloys.com]London Metal Exchange (LME) nickel prices settled at US$8,040/ton on February 10th, dropping by US$60/ton from the previous day.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Nickel developer Axiom Mining was targeting first shipment of ore from its Isabel nickel project, in the Solomon Islands, d