The Shanghai Futures Exchange’s plans to list ferro-chrome futures, potentially this year, will bring welcomed hedging opportunities and may weaken the dominance of China’s stainless steel mills in the ore and alloy markets, participants told Fastmarkets.

Market growth and decarbonization collide to create an unclear future for steelmaking

China increased refined and unrefined copper imports by over 31% year on year in 2020, whereas scrap inflow shrank significantly, reflecting the import policy change for waste products that came into force at the end of the year.

South African manganese miner Assmang has declared force majeure on some shipments after state transport provider Transnet issued the same notice last week.

Mining and metals producer Assmang has declared force majeure on its medium-carbon ferro-manganese production in South Africa, a source told Fastmarkets this week.

Manufacturers in the United States have been materially injured by imports of pre-stressed concrete (PC) steel wire strand from Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has determined.

Argentina’s farming sector has offered an olive branch to the national government in a bid to cool mounting tensions around...

The rapid and significant falls in manganese ore prices in 2019 and 2020 have created "frozen stocks," which are believed to have acted as a buffer for the ore market while also demonstrating some different characteristics over both years, sources told Fastmarkets.

US inspected for export came in at 762,937 over the week to December 17, weekly data from the USDA showed Monday...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned of a repeat of last year’s costly...