Ores and alloys producers have announced a swathe of new production curtailments in the past few weeks in response to poor market conditions.Three production cuts, in chrome ore, ferro-chrome and silico-manganese were announced on December 1 alone, although tw...

Major stainless steel mills in Southern China, such as Tsingshan Group and Baosteel, kept a rollover of their high-carbon ferrochrome tender prices in November, which brought support for the domestic high-carbon ferrochrome prices; however, major stainless ste...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China's import volumes of ferrochrome and chrome ore continued to soar in 2015 compared with the end of 2014. Both of the volumes reached the year high respectively in July up to August 2015. While the volumes might decline in the months ahea...

China's Imported Chrome Ore Increased in May 2015

According to Customs Statistic of China, the chrome ore import in Mar 2015 was 868,858 tons, up by 36% M-o-M, and slightly down by 1% Y-O-Y. The materials were mainly imported from South Africa and Turkey with import volumes respectively at 650,844 tons and 51...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]As China’s Spring Festivals gets nearer, most ferrochrome producers had finished their chrome ore purchase before Spring Festival vacation.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China’s monthly import volume of chrome ore was in an uptrend channel from 2008 to 2013, creating an 7-year high in July 2013 with a monthly import volume at around 1.4 million tonnes.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China imported 516025 tonnes of chrome ores in Nov 2014, down 22.6% over the previous month. Due to the sluggish market of its downstream, there were huge declines in the import volumes of chrome ore for every month since Mar 2014 expect June...