Minera Autlan, North America’s largest producer of alloys used to make steel, plans to spend $150 million to build power plants as Mexico’s energy industry opens to competition.

The South Africa-centred ferrochrome production of diversified miner Glencore lifted appreciably in the third quarter due to the roar of its low-energy Lion II ramp-up in Limpopo.

REC Silicon is expanding polysilicon production at its Moses Lake facility as well as expanding silane production at its Butte facility, while restarting Silane I production. The company is also undertaking a feasibility study to establish a 20,000MT joint ven...

The Indian Bureau of Mines came out on Tuesday with a warning that the Asian powerhouse could face a critical demand/supply gap in the manganese market as soon as 2020.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Organized by ICDA (International Chromium Development Association), “Chromium 2014” was held in New Delhi, India on Nov 5, 2014. India, one of ICDA’s sponsoring countries, is a major chrome ore and ferrochrome supplier in the world.

According to the statistics of Japan Customs, Japan’s ferroalloy export volume was 15260 mt in September of 2014, down by 4.9% M-O-M and down by 25.6% Y-O-Y. The total export volume in Jan-Sep of 2014 was 180437 mt, up by 11.6% Y-O-Y.

According to statistic of Japan Customs, Japan imported 173.4 tons of calcium carbide, down by 28.4% M-O-M and down by 33.1% Y-O-Y. The materials were mainly imported from China with import volume at 132 tons.

On week buying activity, India producers of ferromanganese have reduced their prices by INR500/MT with deals now beijing concluded at INR56,500/MT ex-Raipur and INR57,500/MT ex-Durgapur. Affected by low demand, India producers have lowered prices in the domest...