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Europe’s largest auto part supplier, Bosch, has started serial production of silicon carbide semiconductors (SiC) to supply the product to car manufacturers globally, the company said on Thursday December 2.
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Chinese battery-grade lithium carbonate price resumed its ascent in the week to Thursday December 2, with consumers conducting year-end restocking making steady purchases amid tight availability of spot units.
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Andalusite prices for 2022 supplies pushed upward with demand expected to exceed available output, while logistics costs and issues affecting alternative materials weighed on delivered prices into Europe, market sources told Fastmarkets in the week ended Thursday December 2.
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Silicon carbide prices continued to rise across the board during November because of critically low inventories in Europe and reduced availability from China.
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Zircon prices climbed slightly on both a cif China and a cif Spain basis in the week to Thursday December 2, with high freight rates continuing to be significant.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday December 2.
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Refractory materials producer Vesuvius has bought United States-based Universal Refractories, a speciality refractory producer, for £42.6 million ($56.7 million), UK-based Vesuvius announced Thursday December 2.
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Fastmarkets proposes to launch two price assessments for high power (HP) and ultra high power (UHP) graphite electrodes, fob China.
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Prices for antimony metal and trioxide continued to rise in November on market participants’ reluctance to make deals because of the continuing ore shortage and a lack of container availability and vessel space.
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Spot prices moved “into the $40s” per kg during November amid a lack of immediate supply, while market participants were discussing contract prices for next year.
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Zircon producer PYX Resources, which is listed in both London and Australia, has increased by 33% the production capacity of the mineral separation plant (MSP) at its Mandiri deposit in Indonesia, it said on Wednesday December 1.
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Fastmarkets proposes to change the frequency of its chromite price assessments from weekly to fortnightly.
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China’s imports of fluorspar acidspar fell by 95.12% year-on-year in October 2021 due to fallow buying activity among domestic buyers and supply constraints from some global producers. But exports surged by 300.79% year-on-year on rising demand from Asian buyers, especially from Japan.
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A summary of China’s refractory raw materials exports in October 2021.
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Local authorities in Zhengzhou have ramped-up efforts to combat pollution by implementing more shutdowns of refractories production later this year, leading to another round of brown fused alumina (BFA) supply disruptions.
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Australia-listed lithium start-up Vulcan Energy Resources and carmaker Stellantis signed a binding agreement for the supply of battery chemicals from 2026.
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Australia-based mid-sized mineral sands miner Base Resources was successful both operationally and financially in its 2021 financial year ended June 30, with “remarkably resilient” markets for mineral sands products, retiring chairman Keith Spence told the company’s annual general meeting (AGM).
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Fused alumina prices continued to adjust downward in the two weeks to Thursday November 25, with slow buying activity and relatively improved production following earlier record surges. Meanwhile, bauxite prices were steady on prevailing supply risks but market participants warned of possible further upward moves.
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The seaborne East Asian battery-grade lithium carbonate price rose in the week to Thursday November 25, with tight supply of spot units and gains in the Chinese market providing the support needed to push it above the price for the equivalent grade of lithium hydroxide.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday November 25.
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The European Commission should start taking steps beyond the Critical Raw Materials list to guarantee its supply of metals such as silicon and magnesium, panelists said last week at the International Ferro-Alloys conference in Prague.
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Local authorities in the Chinese cities of Zhengzhou and Luoyang issued a Code Orange response protocol (level two) on Wednesday November 24 because of a forecast for worsening air quality until the end of the month.
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Earlier this year, the EC adopted a package of proposals under the EU Green Deal, which included a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) for imported products. Fastmarkets outlines what this will mean for the iron, steel and aluminium sectors.
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Bulk freight rates for key steel products have receded over recent weeks amid shrinking port congestion in China and improved vessel availability, sources have told Fastmarkets.
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Australia-listed lithium start up Vulcan Energy Resources and car manufacturer Renault signed a binding offtake agreement for lithium, securing lower volumes than initially discussed, according to the companies’ statement on Monday November 22.
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Freight rates, which have spiked in 2021 and impacted steel and ferro-alloy markets, are likely to remain high in 2022 due to an imbalance of demand and availability of ships and containers, panelists said during Fastmarkets’ International Ferro-alloys Conference this week in Prague.
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Passenger car sales in the European Union declined month-on-month in October 2021 due to the continuing global shortage of semiconductors for use in onboard electronics, making it the fourth consecutive month to show a double-digit percentage decrease.
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Lithium prices in China were stable in the week to Thursday November 18 due to limited spot trading activity, while seaborne East Asian prices were flat amid similar conditions.
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A summary of results for the lithium and iodine divisions of Chilean producer Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) for the third quarter of 2021, taken from its quarterly update published on Thursday November 18 and a follow-up call with analysts.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday November 18.
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Foundry-grade chromite prices softened slightly this week. with the industry indicating that inconsistent demand levels from buyers and an uncertain downstream outlook are preventing higher offers from being accepted in the market.
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Lithium market participants have voiced concern about the ability to secure supply of industrial-grade lithium compounds due to an increasingly larger share of the market being taken up by the battery sector.
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China’s production of crude steel declined by more than 20% in October from a year earlier, according to data released by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday November 15.
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Calcined bauxite prices rose to a five-year high in the two weeks to Thursday November 11 on expected supply tightness, while prices for brown fused alumina (BFA) and white fused alumina (WFA) declined due to the restart of operations amid an improved power situation in China.
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Seaborne lithium carbonate prices continued to rise in East Asia on the strength of the Chinese market in the week to Thursday November 11, with tight spot supply providing additional support.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday November 11.
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Refractory materials manufacturer Vesuvius has increased prices, pointing to the semiconductor shortage and high raw material costs as "major uncertainties" affecting the business.
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China’s magnesia prices have softened on falling production costs amid the availability of cheaper coal and increasing supply, though logistics in the country have slowed down due to heavy snow and a rising number of Covid-19 cases in parts of the country, sources told Fastmarkets.
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The governments of the United Kingdom, India, Germany and Canada have announced a pledge to purchase low carbon-emission steel under the Industrial Deep Decarbonization Initiative (IDDI), it was announced on Tuesday November 9.
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Posco Chemical Co, a unit of South Korean steelmaker Posco, plans to acquire a 15% stake in China's Sinuo New Material Technology, an integrated anode producer owned by Shenzhen Sinuo, which in turn is a subsidiary of Nations Technologies.
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China’s export price for fluorspar acidspar has edged upward with most sellers seeking rises due to an optimistic outlook and the relatively tight supply during winter, while other global acidspar prices also rose on supply concerns caused by a rise in energy and logistics costs, sources have told Fastmarkets.
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China’s decarbonization drive could result in increased demand for graphite electrodes amid the global trend toward more steelmaking based on electric-arc furnaces (EAFs), although supply risks may continue in the near term against a backdrop of energy controls, sources have told Fastmarkets.
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China's daily average crude steel output fell sharply in the last 11 days of October, compared with the preceding 10 days, according to data published by the China Iron & Steel Association (Cisa) on Friday November 5.
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Fastmarkets is inviting feedback from the industry on its pricing methodology for industrial minerals, as part of its announced annual methodology review process.
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French metal and mining group Eramet is combining with Chinese stainless steel producer Tsingshan to restart a lithium plant in Argentina, Eramet said on Monday November 8.
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United States-based lithium producer Livent has increased its revenue forecasts for October-December 2021 despite higher costs for energy and raw materials, it said on Thursday November 4.
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China’s Liaoning province was to stop its regime of power cuts and allow power supplies to return to normal from 8pm Beijing time on Friday November 5. The production of fused magnesia would also be able to return to normal, sources told Fastmarkets.
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China's Chengyi Lithium International Ltd is to pay $76.5 million for a controlling stake in Max Mind Investment Ltd, which owns the Max Mind Zimbabwe lithium business.
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Prices for flake fines and spherical graphite in China continued to rise in the week to Thursday November 4, boosted by supply concerns amid power rationing, anti-pollution controls and traditional winter halts in the major production regions of Shandong and Heilongjiang.
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Seaborne lithium prices continued to edge up in Asia on tight availability over the week to Thursday November 4, with momentum in China filtering through to the wider regional market.
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