Vale has shut down its ferro-alloys plants in Brazil’s Minas Gerais State as high energy prices made it economically unviable to operate them, the company said on Wednesday April 22.

Nagpur, Apr 20 (PTI) State-owned Manganese Ore India (MOIL) has registered a growth of 9.90 per cent at 9.77 lakh tonnes in its core production during the fiscal year 2014-15.

In the first quarter of 2015 Ukrainian companies produced 245.9 thousand tons of ferroalloys, down by 5.5% YoY. According to the

In March Ukraine produced 113.6 thousand tons of manganese concentrate and sinter, up by 86.8%, or by 52.8 thousand tons, MoM.

In January-March Ukraine imported 308.93 thousand tons of manganese ore and concentrate, up by 83.8%, or by 51.2%, to

The Government of India lowered the export incentive on silico manganese by 2% from April 1.

some EMM enterprises adjusted their products’ price or production or others to adapt the market. For example, Hubei Changyang Hongxin Industrial Group Co., Ltd.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is reported that price of silicon manganese dropped to RMB5,100/mt in Chengkou Couty of Chongqing of Q1 2015, and the total downtrend margin even reached RMB7,00/mt which far less than production cost about RMB8,00/mt.