World crude steel production for the 65 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 128 million tonnes (Mt) in February 2015, a 0.6% increase compared to February 2014.

On Mar.24th, all ferroalloys enterprises in Wulanchabu areas of Inner Mongolia, China was notified to shut down for 7 to 10days regardless of the environmental conditions.

Entering Mar., the drop rate of LME nickel price slowed down while it still fluctuated between the low level of USD13500-14500/mt. as to the FeNi operating rate of China, expect for the Liaoning and some enterprises in South areas of China, three major produci...

According to the latest Customs statistic, China exported 83,433 tons of ferroalloys (products with HS code below 7202 and silicon metal) in February 2015, dropping down by 17.8% M-O-M and wildly up by 54.5% Y-O-Y. In Jan-Feb, 2015, the total export volume was...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeV50 was offered at RMB64,000-65,000/mt (USD10,491-10,655/mt) by acceptance. Major steel mills didn’t enter the market for tenders, deals concentrating on scattered buying activities from small mills. The transaction price of FeV st...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Shanxi Wenxi Yinguang Magnesium Industry was one of the largest Mg alloy suppliers in Shanxi, managing 11 unit enterprises, Their Mg ingot capacity reached 50thousand mt, Mg alloy 30thousand mt, 95% of which were exported to USA, Canada, Ger...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is reported that Chine imported 941.4 thousand tons of manganese ore from preceding month 1.5 million tons, showing a sharp downturn. Meanwhile, manganes ore imports value for Feb decreased to 144, 260, 916 dollars from 249, 909, 950 tons ...

Recently, electrolytic manganese market prices remained stable in Europe.