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March 2020
27 March 2020
Australian graphite producer Syrah Resources has announced that it will suspend graphite production at its Balama site in Mozambique from Saturday March 28.
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27 March 2020
Australian graphite producer Syrah Resources announced overnight it will suspend graphite production at its Balama site in Mozambique from Saturday March 28.
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26 March 2020
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday March 26.
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26 March 2020
Global crude steel production rose 2.8% year on year in February, according to the Worldsteel Association (Worldsteel), with a strong performance from steel mills in China.
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25 March 2020
Australian graphite producer Syrah Resources has temporarily suspended operations at its battery anode material project in the United States and removed its production target for flake graphite in 2020.
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24 March 2020
China Minmetals has restarted operations at its graphite project in Luobei county, Heilongjiang province, after the normal seasonal shutdown and the extended break to help contain the 2019-nCoV coronavirus pandemic. This marks the earliest operation restart in the past 10 years in the area, one of China’s major production hubs for small flake graphite.
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23 March 2020
Fastmarkets will continue to provide the price data, news and analytics you rely on in these turbulent times.
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19 March 2020
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday March 19.
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17 March 2020
European car manufacturers have announced temporary stoppages at production sites across Europe due to the 2019-nCoV coronavirus pandemic, Fastmarkets learnt on Monday March 16.
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17 March 2020
China’s leading anode material producer, BTR New Material (BTR), has reported year-on-year growth in revenue in 2019 supported by expansion in the anode material field and a good seaborne market, according to its annual report released on Friday March 13.
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13 March 2020
Chinese exports of flake graphite (HS Code: 25041010) dropped by 15% to 114,330 tonnes in 2019 from 134,722 tonnes in 2018, according to official but unconfirmed data seen by Fastmarkets.
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13 March 2020
Flake graphite prices for +894 and +194 grades rose in the week to Thursday March 12 amid continued logistical disruptions in Heilongjiang province brought about by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and seasonal suspensions in the province.
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12 March 2020
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday March 12.
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12 March 2020
UK-headquartered junior miner Armadale Capital has ramped up its forecast for annual production from its Mahenge Liandu graphite project in Tanzania.
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12 March 2020
The United Kingdom government revealed plans to invest over £1 billion ($1.3 billion) on green transport, including £500 million for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure over the next five years, in its 2020 budget announcement on Wednesday March 11.
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09 March 2020
Member mills of the China Iron & Steel Association (Cisa) cut their daily steel output rates and stock levels in late February, but spot market inventories continued to rise, according to data released late on Thursday March 5.
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05 March 2020
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday March 5.
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02 March 2020
The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) has issued 1,615 force majeure certificates to businesses in China affected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV) outbreak.
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February 2020
28 February 2020
The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is set to accelerate what the trade wars started: the diversification of global supply chains.
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28 February 2020
Vesuvius attributed a 4.9% drop in its 2019 revenues to £87.6 million ($112.9 million) and a 40.4% slump in profits to weak steel and foundry end-markets.
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28 February 2020
Prices of flake graphite in China remained unchanged in the week to Thursday February 27, with factories in Qingdao gradually returning to the markets. But sources warned of possible supply tightness because of logistics disruptions in Heilongjiang, the country’s leading flake graphite production region.
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27 February 2020
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday February 27.
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27 February 2020
Detailed Chinese import and export figures for January and February will not be published separately from 2020 onward, Fastmarkets has learnt.
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27 February 2020
Global crude steel production totaled 154.44 million tonnes in January, a year-on-year rise of 2.1%, according to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel).
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27 February 2020
China’s steel industry has faced difficulties in production and sales since the first working day after the Lunar New Year holiday due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, which has led to some 78,000 infections and close to 2,700 deaths in the country so far.
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26 February 2020
Nouveau Monde Graphite has produced spherical graphite on a demonstration basis from its micronization and spheronization facility in Canada, prior to going into commercial production in mid-2022, it said on Wednesday February 26.
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21 February 2020
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday February 20.
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14 February 2020
Chinese mineral producers trying to return to work amid the coronavirus disruptions are being hampered by the continuing shortage of land freight options and restrictions on border crossings.
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14 February 2020
Graphite production in the Chinese city of Qingdao, in Shandong province, one of the country’s production hubs for flake graphite, has begun to resume gradually but with prices flat because of limited spot market activity.
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13 February 2020
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday February 13.
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13 February 2020
Shipments of flake graphite from Mozambique to China totaled 2,362 tonnes in December, a significant drop of 74.8% from 9,378 tonnes in November, according to official (but unconfirmed) data seen by Fastmarkets.
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13 February 2020
Major Chinese mills’ daily crude steel output edged up in late January, but finished steel inventories dropped sharply.
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06 February 2020
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday February 6.
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03 February 2020
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