The domestic steel wire rod market in Northern Europe was quiet in the week to Wednesday September 15, with buyers expecting prices to decline in line with weakening scrap values and lower-cost imports.Producers, however, were in no hurry to drop their offer prices, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel wire rod (mesh-quality) domestic, delivered Nort...Read More
An overview of the chrome ore and alloy markets in Asia, Europe and the United States on Tuesday September 14 and their latest price moves.China Tighter production curbs strengthened sentiment in the ferro-chrome market, underpinning domestic spot prices. With looming concerns over domestic supply, and demand for material expected to be resilient, buyers' appetite for imported ferro-chrome was enh...Read More
The Chinese import market for steel scrap remained quiet on Tuesday September 14 despite Russian sellers offering bulk plate and structural (P&S) scrap at lower prices, market sources said.Cheaper Russia-origin P&S still not attractive to buyers in ChinaSharp drop in Chinese ferrous futures hampers scrap buying demandUptrend continues in Taiwan imported containerized scrap.ChinaLower-cost steel sc...Read More
Several lead smelters in China, which have previously struggled to raise finance, have been restarting their idled furnaces to take advantage of opportunities to sell the heavy metal's by-products abroad, market sources said.Over the past few months, Hunan-based lead smelters, including Hunan Yuteng Nonferrous Metals and Chenzhou City Jingui Silver Industry Co, have obtained silver tolling li...Read More
Several lead smelters in China, which have previously struggled to raise finance, have been restarting their idled furnaces to take advantage of opportunities to sell the heavy metal's by-products abroad, market sources said.Over the past few months, Hunan-based lead smelters, including Hunan Yuteng Nonferrous Metals and Chenzhou City Jingui Silver Industry Co, have obtained silver tolling li...Read More
Several lead smelters in China, which have previously struggled to raise finance, have been restarting their idled furnaces to take advantage of opportunities to sell the heavy metal's by-products abroad, market sources said.Over the past few months, Hunan-based lead smelters, including Hunan Yuteng Nonferrous Metals and Chenzhou City Jingui Silver Industry Co, have obtained silver tolling li...Read More
Chinese lithium producer Tianqi Lithium's board of directors have unanimously approved a proposal for the company to list its shares in Hong Kong, the company said on Monday September 13.The company plans to use proceeds of the listing to repay its...Read More
Bids reached $2,240 per dry metric tonne (dmt) during Pilbara Minerals' second spodumene concentrate auction held via its Battery Material Exchange (BMX) platform on Tuesday September 14, sources told Fastmarkets.The auction is for 8,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrates (SC 5.5% basis) with shipment in November, market participants said. The latest price is at a fob Hedland basis and was 79.2% hig...Read More
Market activity was limited in the European hot-rolled coil segment on Tuesday September 14 because mills and buyers took a break from trading, sources told Fastmarkets.Sentiment among buyers remained poor due to reduced demand from the automotive sector and cheap import material booked earlier this year that has now arrived in the European Union. New import offers have also been competitive, but...Read More
High-grade manganese prices rose in China with the return of liquidity in the week to Friday September 10, while the price of semi-carbonate ore was unchanged week-on-week, with South African exports continuing to weigh heavily on the markets.Fastmarkets' price index for manganese ore 44% Mn, cif Tianjin, rose to $5.26 per dry metric tonne unit (dmtu) on September 10, up by 12 cents per dmtu (2.3%...Read More
Yunnan province, in China's southwestern region, has imposed restrictions on the operations of a few industries with high energy consumption, according to a notice seen by Fastmarkets. Issued by the Yunnan provincial development and reform commission on Saturday September 11, the notice highlighted operational curbs on a number of ferrous and non-ferrous metals - including steel, aluminium, silico...Read More
Steel scrap consumers in the British market have won price concessions in their delivery settlements with suppliers for September, trade sources said on Tuesday September 14.The buyers used the slow export market and a consequent build-up of material to successfully argue for lower costs for their supplies this month.Steel foundries managed to negotiate a reduction of around ?10 ($14) per tonne o...Read More
Some flat steel import prices to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia fell during the week ended Tuesday September 14 so buyers held back from activity and preferred to wait for prices to flatten, sources told Fastmarkets.End-user demand was weak so buyers did not place any big orders despite their low stock levels.Saudi ArabiaChina offered HRC at $970 per tonne cfr Saudi Arabia, falling from...Read More
Turkish steelmakers have continued to book deep-sea scrap cargoes at slightly better prices, market participants told Fastmarkets on Tuesday September 14.A steel mill in the Iskenderun region booked a United States cargo comprising 24,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (85:15) at $443 per tonne and 4,000 tonnes of plate and structural (P&S) at $458 per tonne cfr.The same mill also booked a Canadian cargo compr...Read More
European steel companies must scale up their decarbonization technologies within the coming decade or risk exhausting their allocated emissions allowances early, according to a report released on Tuesday September 14.The report, "Steeling for Net Zero," by climate researcher Industry Tracker, found that selected European steel companies have less than 26% of their carbon budget remaining and must...Read More
Buyers of steel rebar and billet in the United Arab Emirates preferred to wait for new construction or infrastructure projects to be announced before placing big orders because of price uncertainty, sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday September 14.However, no big projects have been announced recently in the region, sources added.UAE market participants did not want to order material in case global...Read More
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Standard Lithium Ltd it is undertaking a pilot project in southern Arkansas to test carbon-capture technology to reduce emissions, the company said. The pilot project will be undertaken in collaboration with the owner of the technology, Aqualung Carbon Capture AS, and will be installed at a natural gas processing site in Columbia County, Arkansas, that is owned and operated by oil and gas explorat...Read More
Standard Lithium Ltd it is undertaking a pilot project in southern Arkansas to test carbon-capture technology to reduce emissions, the company said. The pilot project will be undertaken in collaboration with the owner of the technology, Aqualung Carbon Capture AS, and will be installed at a natural gas processing site in Columbia County, Arkansas, that is owned and operated by oil and gas explorat...Read More
Prices for flat steel products in Russia's Central Federal District around Moscow continued to fall in the week ended Monday September 13, on good availability of hot-rolled (HR) sheet from local producers and the export price shadowing the domestic downward trend, sources have told Fastmarkets.Tubes and pipes makers, key customers which buy large volumes of hot-rolled coil, were able to achieve f...Read More