In China, many of the producers are preparing for Chinese New Year holidays (18th to 24th of February), and the operating rate is pretty low.

According the production report, Vale delivered a strong operational performance in 4Q14 and in 2014, with production records in iron ore, nickel, copper and gold.

During the Spring Festival holidays, LME nickel closing price fell below USD14000/mt while the FeNi and nickel ores price stayed stable. Even though the statutory holiday was over, many factories, steel mills and traders was still on leave and the nickel marke...

The meeting decided to extend tax break policies to more micro and small businesses. From 2015 to the end of 2017, companies with annual taxable income under 200,000 yuan ($32,573) will have their corporate tax halved. Previously, the threshold was 100,000 yua...

Sales Volumes of Ferbasa¡¯s FeSi Increased Month-on-Month in January 2015

ERAMET Alloys: in 2014 very significant cost reductions and productivity gains offset difficult trends in market conditions. Current operating income therefore increased to 23 M€, which was achieved in the 2nd half alone, compared with 4 M€ in 2013. ...

According to the calculation to figure out volumes of molybdenum import and export in pure Mo equivalent based on foreign trade statistics of United States Department of Commerce, the export volume in the full year 2014 (January - December) was 70.20 million l...

According to the statistics of Korea Customs, Korea¡¯s ferroalloy import volume was 113,613 mt in January 2015, up by 43% M-O-M and up by 32.8% Y-O-Y. The import sources and volumes were as the followings, South Africa, 39,200 mt; China, 20,504 mt; India, 17,1...