The sector has been struggling with low downstream demand and supply pressures.

The sector has been struggling with low downstream demand and supply pressures.

Hebei has added 10 new domestic container trade routes and four foreign trade routes since last year, opening routes to the Russian Far East, Vietnam and Thailand.

“We see infrastructure for instance is still growing strongly in China,” he said, adding that manufacturing is also “performing pretty well in China”.

It reiterated its latest guidance to close the deal by year-end, pending US approvals.

With efforts from both sides, the factory gradually emerged from its crisis.

Merafe Resources has reported that its attributable ferrochrome production from the Glencore Merafe Chrome Venture in the first quarter ended March 31 was 77 000 t.

Russian metals giant Nornickel, the world’s largest palladium producer and a major producer of high-grade nickel, cut nickel production by 10% year on year in the first quarter to 42,000 metric tons, the company said on Monday.