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The market is flat this week after iodine producers gave their fourth quarter spot price offers in the previous week's assessment.
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The third edition of the Antimony Day Conference hosted last week by the International Antimony Association in Antwerp, Belgium, pointed out the challenges the industry faces at a time of increasing scrutiny for this speciality chemical.
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The weak metallurgical chrome and chrome alloys market could reduce non-met chromite sellers’ room for maneuvre on the elasticity of non-met prices.
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Participants in the market expressed widely differing views on the current state of the global soda ash trade at the recent World Soda Ash Conference, indicating that producers may struggle to get the price increases they are seeking.
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The keynote panel at this year's Fastmarkets Fluorspar event covered global supply and demand, environmental inspections and new fluorine alternatives.
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Key takeaways from the 62nd Colloquium on Refractories, held in Aachen, Germany, on September 25-26
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Key takeaways from Fastmarkets’ annual fluorspar event for 2019, held in London, September 25-27.
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Refractories manufacturers and suppliers of raw materials alike see further bearish conditions affecting the whole industry in 2020, and expect market conditions to worsen further.
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Concerns are growing that titanium dioxide products sold in Europe will need carcinogen warning labels.
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Consensus in the market is that the consuming sectors are seeing growth slow, but that is not translating into lower fluorspar contract prices.
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Mongolia has five fluorspar projects in preparation but details were sparse about precisely what they will produce, and how much, delegates heard at Fastmarkets’ Fluorspar 2019 Conference.
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Speakers at Fastmarkets’ latest fluorspar event were united in their opinion that fluorine derived from phosphate fertilizer was becoming more competitive against high fluorspar prices, resulting in investment from fluorine chemical producers.
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United States-based soda ash producer Searles Valley Minerals has restarted operations at its plant in California although it is still recovering from the damage caused by two earthquakes in July.
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Market fundamentals continue to point to a supply surplus amid weak demand, which could affect prices for next year, attendees at the 62nd International Colloquium on Refractories 2019, held in Germany on September 24-26, said.
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Turkey-based producer Ciner told delegates to the World Soda Ash Conference that it now has 5.4 million tonnes per year of soda ash production in the pipeline.
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A benchmark price is needed in the lithium industry, Pertti Lamberg, the CEO at Finnish lithium company Keliber, said at the Battery Materials Europe conference.
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The chief executive of the most recent entrant into the fluorspar market has confirmed that it will not achieve its nameplate capacity for acidspar this year.
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Expansions at two existing sites will add 1.35 million tonnes to US production from 2021.
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The autumn and winter of 2019-20 will be the third consecutive year when Chinese authorities impose strict regulations on industrial production across a number of cities and provinces in the north of the country, with output expected to be curtailed for as long as six months.
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Refractory-grade bauxite and fused alumina prices remained relatively stable amid supply disruptions caused by Beijing’s environmental efforts and dampened demand from end users.
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Iran has opened a unit with capacity for 30,000 tonnes per year of alpha-alumina, to supply the country’s refractories, ceramics and chemicals industries.
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Data shows a continued slide in worldwide factory output, with raw materials traders reporting weaker orders from buyers.
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