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March 2017
31 March 2017
Total turnover at China’s 62 key refractory companies fell 3.72% year-on-year (y-o-y) in 2016 to Chinese renminbi (Rmb) 32.04bn ($4.65bn). The average profit rate was 2.54%.
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31 March 2017
China’s output of refractory products (excluding source materials) continues to fall.
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31 March 2017
Downstream markets such as steel, construction and nonferrous metals, which consume industrial minerals via refractories, saw growth in China in 2016.
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30 March 2017
The lack of standards between product types and processing methods, high costs as well as companies’ own strategies when it comes to reaching potential users, have created confusion in the industry and are slowing down market penetration for graphene.
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28 March 2017
The company, whose Balama graphite project is due to come online later this year, will look into opportunities to supply graphite to BTR, the largest producer of battery anodes for the lithium-ion market.
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28 March 2017
HarbisonWalker's has chosen South Point, Lawrence Country as the best location for its $30m monolithic refractories facility due to existing infrastructure.
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24 March 2017
Overcapacity is still affecting the global graphite market as growth in supply has been exceeding growth in demand. New projects coming online could put further pressure on prices.
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24 March 2017
While western operators speculate that China may apply a resource tax in place of the export duty it scrapped from January, local sources say they do not expect this to come into effect.
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24 March 2017
Lithium prices unchanged; brown fused alumina spreads widen; fluorspar continues to climb; antimony trioxide stable; chromite stand-off continues
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23 March 2017
Competition from newly-producing areas has given rise to smaller companies seeking to quickly make a profit, resulting in a disordered graphite market in China, delegates at the Graphite & Graphene conference told IM. Plans to increase graphite output further in some areas of China could pull prices down again.
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22 March 2017
Chinese delegates at the IM Graphite & Graphene conference talked about what the booming EV industry means for graphite and mulled the possibility of foreign competitors trying to break the dominance of Chinese producers.
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21 March 2017
The performance of Syrah’s soon-to-come online Mozambique graphite operation will be key to ensuring investors’ continued interest in funding graphite projects, although it would not be easy for the company to gain market share in a tight-price scenario.
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20 March 2017
Unshaped refractories are expected to gain further traction in emerging markets, while penetration in mature markets will be slow, according to leading refractories producer Calderys.
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17 March 2017
The Chinese car market will be the biggest driver of demand for lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, and therefore for graphite, in the near term, according to Christoph Frey, managing director of ProGraphite GmbH.
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17 March 2017
Electric vehicle sales increased despite overall lower automobile transactions in February, MIIT said.
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17 March 2017
The lithium-ion batteries market will grow to account for 9% of total graphite demand by 2026 as traditional markets remain slow, according to Suzanne Shaw, senior analyst at Roskill Information Services.
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15 March 2017
A brief roundup of notable activity in the graphite and graphene industries.
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01 March 2017
An increase in the average export price coupled with higher demand led to a 29% growth in exported value for spherical graphite material.