JSE-listed Chrometco has entered into conditional agreements with commodity trading company Sail Minerals that will result in Sail acquiring just less than 90% of Chrometco.

The forecast from Baoshan Iron & Steel, or Baosteel, comes at a time when China, the world’s top producer of the alloy, is stepping up efforts to slash a huge overcapacity that has boosted cheap exports amid slowing demand at home.

The domestic steel product orders in Japan recorded marginal decline during the first half of the current year. Meantime, government trade data suggests that steel exports by the country climbed higher during July, the latest month for which data is available.

Zimbabwe’s largest ferrochrome producer, Zimasco, currently under provisional judicial management, has approached banks it owes $35 million for a six and half year moratorium on interest on the pre-judicial management debts.

Corporate vultures are circling around Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (Pvt) Ltd (Zimasco) with a view to effect a hostile take-over of the integrated ferrochrome company in the country, businessdigest can reveal.

Chrome ore is becoming increasingly strategic for platinum mining company Northam Platinum.

Corporate vultures are circling around Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (Pvt) Ltd (Zimasco) with a view to effect a hostile take-over of the integrated ferrochrome company in the country, businessdigest can reveal.

ON one chilly morning in July last year, three men walked into Zimasco’s Harare offices. They wanted to see the man in charge and had a business proposal.