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October 2019
22 October 2019
Demand for both domestic and imported steel in Brazil fell year on year in September.
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21 October 2019
Demand for the production of EVs has slowed the downtrend in Chinese spherical graphite prices, which is otherwise being dampened by weak refractory demand.
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21 October 2019
Overcapacity in the global graphite market expanded this year due to more projects coming online despite lower demand, according to Xia Xiaomin, vice general manager of Heilongjiang Pride New Material Technology.
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21 October 2019
Australian miner Syrah Resources has announced that it will cut 30% of the jobs at its Balama graphite operation in Mozambique as part of a cost reduction initiative in response to weak market conditions.
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17 October 2019
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday October 17.
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17 October 2019
Increasing output from China’s domestic steel industry has not brought strong demand for refractory materials, with prices under mounting pressure.
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16 October 2019
Fastmarkets welcomed leading players from the world’s battery makers as well as producers of raw materials to its first European battery event, held in Amsterdam, for insight and discussion on the anticipated surging growth in the market.
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16 October 2019
The bearish phase of the commodity cycle and weak end-user markets will mean consumers of raw materials will only source only as much as they are sure to use in the short term.
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15 October 2019
The price of flake graphite is expected to show little change through the fourth quarter of 2019, delegates at an industry conference told Fastmarkets.
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15 October 2019
Demand for refractory and foundry equipment in Europe is sagging due to a "challenging market environment" in steel, Vesuvius says.
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15 October 2019
The supply chains of refractory raw materials as well as finished products could be drastically affected by China’s economic performance and political stance, but refractories operators lament a lack of visibility for strategy planning.
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10 October 2019
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday October 10.
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09 October 2019
Fastmarkets has updated its graphite flake quarterly price premium to 6.7% per percentage of carbon from a base of 94% carbon.
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08 October 2019
Australia-based global miner Mineral Resources has taken control of Europe’s biggest graphite mine with the purchase of Skaland Graphite, with changes already planned to improve concentrate quality.
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03 October 2019
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday October 3.
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02 October 2019
Martina Merz takes over from interim chief executive Guido Kerkhoff, who led the company since July last year.
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02 October 2019
Miners in Tanzania could be affected by the government’s harder stance on the payment of full royalties, which could lead to higher payments for graphite producers, among others.
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02 October 2019
Key takeaways from the 62nd Colloquium on Refractories, held in Aachen, Germany, on September 25-26
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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
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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September 2019
30 September 2019
Crude steel production in Asia grew by 6.2% year on year, while European Union and North American output fell by 2.2% and 3.1% respectively.
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27 September 2019
The environmental impact of graphite processing for batteries is of particular concern for end-product manufacturers marketed as sustainable, such as electric vehicles.
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27 September 2019
Europe’s battery production capacity will have more than doubled by 2025 from the level in 2015, according to Eurobat, the Association of European Automotive & Industrial Battery Manufacturers.
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26 September 2019
Fastmarkets outlines some of the key topics likely to dominate discussions when participants of the battery raw materials and electric vehicle supply chain gathers in Amsterdam this week.
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25 September 2019
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday September 26.
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23 September 2019
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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23 September 2019
Demand for passenger cars in Europe fell 8.38% year on year in August 2019, the European Automotive Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said this week.
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19 September 2019
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday September 19.
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18 September 2019
Fastmarkets identified some main takeaway points from its Graphite Conference in Berlin this September.
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13 September 2019
Graphite producer Syrah has reported that it intends to reduce production in the fourth quarter because the prices that are being realized and the bearish market conditions continue to dent profitability.
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12 September 2019
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday September 12.
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12 September 2019
Delegates in Berlin say the market may gradually rebalance due to reduced volumes from Mozambique, but argue a turnaround may take time.
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11 September 2019
New entrants to the graphite market, such as India, have been attracted to the growing expandable graphite sector because costs in China have risen, according to Roskill Information Services
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10 September 2019
Australian miner Syrah will reduce its monthly output of graphite in the fourth quarter of 2019 by about two-thirds compared with the third quarter, because of the current unfavorable market conditions.
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10 September 2019
Exports in August and the first eight months of the year were both down year on year due to weak overseas demand.
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05 September 2019
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday September 5.