Finnish stainless steelmaker Outokumpu expects to encounter continued cost pressure from high prices for graphite electrodes and ferro-silicon in 2018, it said on Wednesday January 31.
31 January 2018
Viral Shah
Key data from the January 31 pricing session in Europe.
31 January 2018
Declan Conway
China’s crude stainless steel output rose 4.7% to a new high in 2017.
31 January 2018
Jessica Zong
Supply concerns continued to drive Chinese ferro-vanadium and global vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) prices, while European ferro-vanadium prices found stability at slightly lower levels while market activity slowed.
31 January 2018
Anna Xu, Chris Kavanagh
Manganese ore prices continued to exhibit strength on thinning supplies last week, while Chinese alloy markets felt pressure from slowing demand.
30 January 2018
Charlotte Radford, Chris Kavanagh, Declan Conway, Karen Ng
Swiss special and stainless steel producer Schmolz + Bickenbach (S+B) has been chosen by a French court to take over French speciality steelmaker Asco Industries (Ascometal), it said on Monday January 29.
30 January 2018
Viral Shah
European alloy surcharges for February deliveries of grade-316 cold-rolled (CR) stainless steel sheet have risen sharply month on month amid higher nickel and molybdenum costs.
29 January 2018
Viral Shah
Chinese ferro-silicon prices have been steady in the past week, stabilizing losses made through the month when idled production was restarted; meanwhile, the European price set another record high, and US prices climbed after a period of inactivity due to strong overseas prices.
29 January 2018
Chris Kavanagh, Susan Zou, Declan Conway
The latest ferro-vanadium and vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) transactions, bids, offers and assessments in Europe.
29 January 2018
Charlotte Radford, Chris Kavanagh
European stainless steel base prices have remained unchanged over the past week, with market participants expecting new mill offers to come in early February, sources told Metal Bulletin on Friday January 26.
26 January 2018
Viral Shah
