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November 2019
01 November 2019
Reports have been heard that work has started at five new fluorspar projects in Mongolia, but there are no clear production guidelines and China may be reprocessing some material for re-export.
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01 November 2019
Fluorosilic acid (FSA) could become a widely used viable alternative source for fluorine in the future, with increasing amounts if investment in specialized plants.
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October 2019
25 October 2019
New volumes of acidspar are arriving at customers’ factories but for those tonnages to have a meaningful impact on the supply and demand balance, consistent product specifications must be achieved.
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25 October 2019
Weaker domestic demand continues to depress the fob acidspar price for exports from China, with contract negotiations continuing.
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24 October 2019
The annual fluorspar contract price negotiations have reached a standoff with both sides of the market prepared to wait until there is a clearer picture of demand for 2020.
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21 October 2019
Long-reported weakness in the domestic acidspar market has caused the low end of the Chinese export price to fall to $400 per tonne.
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15 October 2019
Profitability or demand for fluorochemical products will weaken over the next year against a backdrop of geopolitical issues hovering over global markets, several producers believe.
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02 October 2019
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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02 October 2019
Fastmarkets rounds up six key takeaways from its first Battery Materials Europe conference in Amsterdam, which took place on September 26-27.
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01 October 2019
Key takeaways from Fastmarkets’ annual fluorspar event for 2019, held in London, September 25-27.
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01 October 2019
Consensus in the market is that the consuming sectors are seeing growth slow, but that is not translating into lower fluorspar contract prices.