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April 2019
23 April 2019
Steel demand growth in Europe will slow this year due to a worsening trade environment and Brexit uncertainty.
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23 April 2019
China has reached peak annual steel consumption of 850-900 million tonnes, according to the China Iron and Steel Association (Cisa).
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23 April 2019
China’s output of crude steel and finished steel in the first quarter of 2019 both increased significantly year on year on good demand and healthy profits.
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17 April 2019
Rio Tinto reported a slight year-on-year increase in its titanium-dioxide slag output amid a furnace restart.
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15 April 2019
A joint petition to remove restrictions on the alumina refinery was filed after a conciliatory meeting on Friday April 12.
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12 April 2019
China’s major mills cut their daily output rates for crude steel in late March and their inventories of finished steel also dropped.
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11 April 2019
At the current pace of consumption, Latin American steel use miss earlier targets of 70.6 million tonnes in 2019.
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10 April 2019
Al Taweelah alumina refinery is the first such facility in the United Arab Emirates and is expected to significantly reduce the amount of smelter-grade alumina EGA requires from the spot market.
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March 2019
29 March 2019
US producer Noranda’s capacity expansion for both dry and wet alumina hydrate is expected to fill the gap in the market created by the missing volumes from Brazil’s Alunorte operation.
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28 March 2019
Alumina market participants at the Fastmarkets conference were in consensus that prices will tumble when Alunorte is given the go-ahead to resume full production.
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27 March 2019
A meeting in Brazil early in April could clear the way for Norsk Hydro's Alunorte smelter to shift the alumina market into oversupply, according to Fastmarkets research.
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27 March 2019
The alumina contract will help the London Metal Exchange to continue to provide options throughout the supply chain and keep the exchange in position as the global reference point.
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27 March 2019
The refractory maker reports higher end-user demand outweighing raw material volatility.
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27 March 2019
The hearing will determine whether the embargoes on the refinery's production and waste deposits can be removed.
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27 March 2019
The Belém court approval is the final "stumbling block" to boosting capacity, John Thuestad, Hydro Brazil's executive vice president of bauxite and alumina, said at Fastmarkets' Bauxite & Alumina conference.
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26 March 2019
The decommissioning of upstream tailing dams must be completed by August 2023, according to new regulation, although bauxite production will not suffer, the national aluminium association said.
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26 March 2019
Key to securing the supply of bauxite is improving community and government relations, executives said.
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26 March 2019
The 5,000-tonne-per-year facility will be installed at the company’s Achinsk location as it aims to become the first domestic producer of the material.
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19 March 2019
The number of new passenger car registrations in the EU decreased by only 0.96% year-on-year in February 2019.
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19 March 2019
There could be a metallurgical bauxite shortage if the resolution to ban upstream tailings dams is put into effect.
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12 March 2019
The new alumina contract will allow market participants to hedge against risk.
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11 March 2019
Chinese finished steel exports decreased in February on both a yearly and a month-on-month basis amid uncompetitive prices and fewer working days as a result of the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday.
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08 March 2019
The market for extremely pure alumina is set to more than double in the next five years due to the growing electric vehicle (EV) sector, Altech claims.
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08 March 2019
Prices for two grades of bauxite have ticked downward, as has the price for white fused alumina, but brown fused alumina remained stable, with the market said to be mostly flat on limited activity.
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08 March 2019
China’s major mills continued to raise their daily output rates for crude steel in mid-February, while their finished steel inventories also rose.
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07 March 2019
The Russian aluminium producer forecasts a positive 2019 after a volatile aluminium market last year.
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04 March 2019
Fastmarkets IM has begun a consultation on its proposal to increase the frequency of its andalusite price assessments to quarterly.