The Lion ferrochrome smelter owned and operated by the Glencore Merafe Chrome Venture, uses 37% less electricity than conventional ferrochrome processes to produce the equivalent volume of ferrochrome.

The total ourput of Glencore's ferrochrome production was 287 kt in the third season of 2014, lower than 335 kt and 317 kt in the first two seasons.

Like in so many other industrial commodities, China has surprised the world by the speed at which it has grown manufacturing capacity of ferrochrome, a stainless steel making ingredient. The surprise in this case is more since bereft of chrome ore, the Chinese...

“It will be the largest ferrochrome producing complex at a single location in Asia", said Arun Misra, vice president (Gopalpur project) of Tata Steel.

India's ferroalloys producers have built capacity of 5.25 million tonnes (mt), including 3.2 mt of manganese alloys and 1.75 mt of chrome alloys, anticipating much faster growth in domestic production of carbon, alloys and stainless steel than is actually the ...

Labour unions of Indian Metals and Ferro Alloys (IMFA) have urged the state government to take steps for immediate opening of Sukinda chromite mines of the company citing acute raw material scarcity in the ferrochrome plant.

Shareholders of the Company are advised that the European benchmark ferrochrome price has been settled at 115USc per pound for the fourth quarter of 2014....

KWG Resources Inc. (TSXV: KWG; Frankfurt: KW6), has filed an international patent application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. This will provide KWG with the right to file patent applications in over 140 countries around the world in order to secure its ri...