Announcing its mineral-linkage policy, the Odisha government has entrusted the Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC), a state government-owned company, to act as a nodal agency to ensure long-term raw material linkages to steel and ferro-alloy industries coming up i...

On September 1, International Ferro Metals Limited (IFL), a ferro-chrome producer in South Africa announced that the supply of UG2 chrome ore from Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) restarted and 20,000 tons was received in August.

South African electricity utility Eskom said on Friday that it would sign a disputed R4.8-billion contract with Areva, of France, for the replacement of six steam generators at the Koeberg nuclear power station, in Cape Town.

Energy utility Eskom said on Monday that the electricity system would remain tight over the evening peak on Monday and would be “extremely constrained” for the rest of the week owing to planned and unplanned outages. As a result, a high reliance on emergency...

The biggest challenge facing South Africa’s ferrochrome industry was no longer China, but local energy supply constraints, chrome producer Afarak executive chairperson Dr Alistair Ruiters said on Wednesday.

Smelters and foundries need support if they are to survive. As a start, Eskom has to sort out its electricity supply problems, and government’s R4-trillion infrastructure plan needs to get under way soon.

Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL) has got the highest allocation of 15,300 MT Friable ore among the inside -state (Odisha) bidders in the August round of Chrome ore e-auction followed by Visa Steel with 10,700 MT.Meanwhile, Rohit Ferrotech has got an allocation o...

0n August 25，the first 20 t of the material were produced at shop No.4 of the new ferroalloy plant in Aktobe，owned by KZCR. The asset a yearly capacity of 440，000 tpy of HC FeCr and is equipped with four 72 MVA electric arc furnaces. 0nly one unit is functi...