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December 2018
21 December 2018
Attendees at Fastmarkets’ 22nd Middle East Iron and Steel conference, held in Dubai over December 10-12, are worried that increased input costs are damaging their competitiveness and eating into their profitability.
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21 December 2018
The company has completed a year-long expansion to achieve a total non-met alumina capacity, in both dry and wet hydrate, of up to 800,000 tonnes per year.
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20 December 2018
Sanctions against UC Rusal and En+ will be removed early next year, although those against Oleg Deripaska will remain.
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20 December 2018
Bosai has made a $1.2 billion acquisition of Shandong Qixing's idled operation, however this is not expected to ease the tightness in the Chinese alumina market with production not due until the first quarter of 2019.
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20 December 2018
The company reports that lithium battery demand is supporting the rise in boehmite demand, with revenue for the third quarter at $49.1 million and Nashtec “weighing down” earnings.
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20 December 2018
Russian Mining increases capacity by 50% while the flame retardants market continues its accelerated growth, yet alumina hydrate market remains the most widely used material.
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18 December 2018
Speakers at Fastmarkets MB’s Middle East Iron and Steel event stressed the urgency of shielding local steelmakers from the knock-on effects of the United States’ Section 232 tariffs although over the longer term GCC industries must find ways to become more competitive.
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17 December 2018
China’s crude steel and finished steel output both maintained their strong upward momentum in November.
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14 December 2018
Certain Fastmarkets prices will be rolled over between December 25 and January 1 in observance of the Christmas and New Year holidays.
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11 December 2018
The EC's safeguarding measures are needed to keep the European steel market competitive, according to Aditya Mittal.
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11 December 2018
Contract negotiations continue to lend upward support to some grades of ground calcined alumina, while unground material prices held steady.
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06 December 2018
Brazilian apparent steel use will be higher than previously expected during 2018 and is estimated to grow again in 2019 while the industry moves on from a crisis with better economic prospects, local steel association Aço Brasil said on Wednesday December 5.
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November 2018
28 November 2018
Alumina producer Nabaltec reported rising demand for boehmite, which is used as a component in lithium ion batteries.
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15 November 2018
A parliamentary committee has called for civil and criminal investigations into the solid waste disposal operations at Alunorte's alumina refinery in Brazil on environmental grounds.
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12 November 2018
The $1.2 billion acquisition of the idled operation will not ease tightness in China's alumina market in the short term - production is not due until the first quarter of next year.
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08 November 2018
Market participants have largely priced in the decision, which had been made at state level in March, while Chinese prices continue at elevated levels on a domestic tightness.
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05 November 2018
Indications point to an increase in prices for calcined alumina as contract negotiations enter the closing stages in what is looking to be primarily a sellers’ market.
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01 November 2018
Major Chinese steel mills cut their crude steel output mildly in the middle of October, while their finished steel inventories continued to rise.