“We are probably underestimating the [lithium] demand from EV [electric vehicle] industry,” Kevin Chen, vice president commercial, APAC at major lithium producer Albemarle said on Fastmarkets’ Asian Battery Material Conference 2023

Indonesia will stop providing licenses for new nickel pig iron (NPI) facilities and will assess the position of nickel matte due to concerns over nickel ore availability

North American ferrous scrap prices are due a further downward correction in May following drops incurred on cut grades and shredded scrap in April; primes trended sideways over the period

Sales have shifted toward monthly commitments and spot market replenishment

The current curtailment of barge shipments along the upper portion of the Mississippi River due to flooding is balancing some of the negative sentiment brought on by a swathe of end-of-month cancelations sent out by US mills to their suppliers

Preventative measures imposed to address concerns of local farmers in neighboring EU member states

NextSource Materials is increasing output from its newly commissioned Molo graphite mine in Madagascar to meet demand from the refractories sector and as part of its downstream expansion into the anode market

Reports by the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange's (Bage) forecast the country's soybean crop to decline

Mitsui and Kobe Steel are seeking to reinforce their position in direct-reduced iron (DRI) production in the Middle East with the construction of a low-CO2 iron metallics production plant within the Special Economic Zone at Duqm, in the Sultanate of Oman

Fastmarkets experts share cobalt forecasts, data and interactive price charts to demonstrate the volatile battery materials landscape and make some key predictions about the future of the cobalt market