According to the Nigeria Attack reported in 1st Sep, Nigeria spends about $3.3 billion a year on steel imports, Nippon Minerals and Steel Development Minister Olamulcan Adibate said on Monday Aug.31.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Qatar is now a production hub for polysilicon, which is used as a raw material by the solar photovoltaic industry, researcher Frost & Sullivan said, and noted capabilities in solar are more pronounced compared to wind energy as most countrie...

As per the revised order, 38 blocks would be auctioned instead of previously announced 41.

Vietnam spent more than 5.6 billion U.S. dollars importing over 9.7 million tons of steel and iron in the first eight months of this year.

"These difficult conditions make the industry even more vulnerable to surges in imports."

Baosteel expects China's vehicle production to drop 6% year on year to 24.2 million units in 2020, improving from a 11.8% year-on-year drop in January-July.

The period saw an 11% fall in Russian steel consumption to little over 19 million mt, according to Evraz.

Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited (LON:FAR), the vanadium mining and processing company with operations based in Southern Kazakhstan, has announced that the Company has developed technology for the production of electrolyte for vanadium flow batteries (“VFBs”).