“Outages are going to be a blip on my radar because they’re planned. Eight planned outages are better than one unplanned [outage],” another distributor said.

The agreement comes against a complicated auto and green steel backdrop.

Baosteel is looking to start up a hydrogen/natural-gas based DRI plant at its Zhanjiang facility in southern China.

ChemX rolls out maiden Jamieson Tank manganese resource

Build a new China-ASEAN commodity channel to promote new domestic and international dual circulation development

Top nickel producer Indonesia will not approve any new mining output quotas this year, government official Septian Hario Seto said, a move likely to further tighten supplies of nickel ore.

The 2311 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 7576 yuan per ton on September 19.

Antaq, the sea transportation authority in Brazil, has granted authorization for the construction of an iron ore sea terminal in ltaguai, in the southeastern state of Rio de Janeiro.