Brazil’s Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world’s No.1 iron-ore producer, saw a slight decline in second-quarter output, but still managed to beat beat analysts’ estimates, keeping a new annual production record in sight.

The Philippines saw an increase in its nickel production from 2014, producing 530,000 tonnes last year. In 2015, the Philippines was the largest exporter of DSO in the world. The country took

China’s Import Statistic of Ferronickel by Country in Feb 2016

In November 2015, Japan totally exported 68364t of stainless steel, with a decease of 20.2 percent month over month. The average price was about $3814/t, up 5.2 percent month over month and the export volume approached to $2.607 billion.

Indonesia’s PT Antam Tbk said that the company produced 4,930 tons of nickel in the second quarter, increasing by 15.8% from 4,258 tons in the same period of last year.

LME nickel inventory continued declining since entering June, but again turned upward to 461,436 tons at the time of trade closing on June 19 (= at the time of trade opening on June 22), which reflected an increase of 2,886 tons from the prior day. This increa...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China’s Ferronickel import volume was 75,154mt in April, up by 93.6% M-O-M(38,816mt) and up by151% Y-O-Y(29,903mt). The total import volume from Jan. to Apr 2015 was 197,000 mt, up by 87.6% Y-O-Y（105,000mt).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China’s unwrought nickel import volume was 18,234mt in April, up by 215% M-O-M(5,774mt) and up by11.7% Y-O-Y(16,319mt).