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.

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

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

[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.

Assmang Limited, South Africa has recently announced the progress situation and future schedule for

[Ferro-Alloys.com]By the end of March, it is reported that there was only 61 furances sustaining operation out of 108 furances in Ningxia of China according to data f

Prices for US silicon manganese narrowed this past week to 51-53 cents per lb, ex-warehouse, as additional mills slowly entered the spot market in a sluggish steel market. US raw steel production dropped again for the week ended April 4, with production being ...

Indsil Hydro Power and Manganese Ltd has informed that due to very weak market conditions, the Company has suspended its