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Brisk export demand and rising feedstock prices are supporting Chinese titanium dioxide prices.
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Severe logistical hurdles continue to affect the main seaborne shipping routes out of China, with prohibitively high container freight costs persisting and recent land transport issues adding to the congestion and delays at ports.
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Seaborne prices for bauxite and fused alumina in China moved up in the fortnight ended Thursday January 21 on rising land transport costs and long lead times, compounded by persistently tight supply.
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Tightness in the Chinese domestic battery grade lithium compound market drove further price upswings and supported a similar move up in the Asian seaborne lithium carbonate market in the week to Thursday January 21.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe
for the week ended Thursday January 21.
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China’s overall magnesia market was slow over the week to Tuesday January 19 with prices unchanged amid poor end-user demand, while producers started to lower offer prices for some grades of magnesia, sources said.
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Fastmarkets’ assessment price for wet bulk foundry grade chromite moved up after five months of stability amid improving market sentiment in the week to Tuesday January 19, while the chemical grade market also gained against the end of last year.
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Tighter controls on mining activity in China’s Liaoning province and strict environmental regulations have eased the oversupply of magnesia in the country, stirring up an optimistic price outlook for 2021.
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Sales of passenger cars in the European Union dropped by 3.27% year on year in December 2020, the European Automotive Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said on Tuesday January 19.
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China’s crude steel output in 2020 exceeded 1 billion tonnes for the first time with an increase of 5.2%, according to data released by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics on Monday January 18.
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Fluorspar acidspar export prices remained stable in China last week amid weak demand. China’s domestic fluorspar transport has been partly disrupted in north China due to increased Covid-19 cases in Hebei province.
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Turkey’s biggest steel producer, Erdemir, has bought compatriot magnesia producer Kümas, with the sale approved by the Turkish Competition Authority, the steelmaker said on Friday January 15.
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China’s steel imports increased sharply in 2020 but exports declined from 2019 levels, according to Chinese customs data released on Thursday January 14.
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China’s domestic battery-grade lithium carbonate prices rose by 5.6% to a 14-month high on Thursday January 14, 2021 on tightening spot supply while battery-grade lithium hydroxide also surged by 10.3% week on week on low availability of cheap materials, Fastmarkets heard.
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The Covid-19 pandemic is once again disrupting logistics in China, with authorities reporting the first death in the country since the spring of 2020.
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Prices of antimony trioxide in Europe and the United States continued their upward trend in the seven days to Tuesday January 12 due to tight availability of feedstock antimony metal as well as soaring freight costs.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday January 14.
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Sentiment in the chromite market appeared to be firming with market participants on the sell side suggesting during the latest pricing session that there are signals of improved conditions in the short term.
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The European flourspar contract market dipped in December 2020 after a turbulent year for end consumer markets due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Chinese automotive output and sales dipped by just 2% in 2020 from a year earlier after a sustained recovery in the second half of the year. Continuous year-on-year growth in December in both sales and output continued to provide support to upstream raw material prices.
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Fastmarkets proposes to reduce the frequency of two of its amorphous graphite price assessments to monthly from weekly.
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ArcelorMittal has restarted one of its sinter plants at Gijon in Spain's Asturias region after nine months of downtime.
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China’s fluorspar acidspar export market was flat in the first full trading week of 2021, with downstream buying exhibiting no recovery after the New Year break.
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China’s domestic battery-grade lithium carbonate market hit a 14-month high in the first trading week of the year after the price rose by 8% week on week on Thursday January 7 on soaring offer prices and heightened buying appetite.
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Refractory raw material consumers are likely to face shortages in bauxite, with the continued supply and logistics bottlenecks from China coming against a low-stock situation in destination markets.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday January 7.
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China’s magnesia export market has remained quiet, with few new deals reported this week because most market participants were just back from New Year holidays, although market sentiment remained upbeat due to tight supply.
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China, which is finalizing a new masterplan that will form the core of its policies for the ferrous sector in its 14th Five-Year Plan, is seeking input from steel market participants, its Ministry of Industry & Information Technology (MIIT) said on December 31.
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Exports of dead burned magnesia (DBM) rose in November year on year due to increasing demand from overseas buyers, while caustic calcined magnesia (CCM) and fused magnesia (FM) exports declined.
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View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2021 and 2022.
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China’s spot prices for battery-grade lithium carbonate moved up further on tight supply, and deals were secured at even higher prices over the week Thursday December 31
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday December 31
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Chinese lithium producer Sichuan Yahua Lithium, a subsidiary of Sichuan Yahua Group, has signed a long-term supply agreement for battery-grade lithium hydroxide with United States-based electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla on December 29, it said on Wednesday December 30.
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Both bauxite and fused alumina prices jumped during the two weeks to Thursday December 24, with supply tightness continuing to affect the market amid ongoing winter closure restrictions and additional supply issues related to power availability and land transport, in addition to soaring freight costs on the main routes from China to Europe.
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The United Kingdom and European Union have reached an agreement on a trade deal that will ensure tariff-free trading of most goods between the country and the bloc after December 31 when the withdrawal transition period ends, easing metals and minerals market participants’ fears of logistics paralysis and material shortages.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday December 24.
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Key pricing data from the pricing sessions in Europe and Asia for the week ended December 24.
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The Australian-listed AVZ Minerals Ltd has signed a long-term offtake agreement with GFL International, a subsidiary of Chinese lithium producer Ganfeng Lithium, the company said on Thursday December 24.
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World crude steel production increased by 6.6% year on year in November, with China, Germany and Ukraine posting the largest increases.
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Andalusite buyers are seeking flexibility for 2021 supply volumes due to uncertain conditions in refractories' end market, as negotiations for new contracts proceed slowly.
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The price of antimony trioxide, fob China continued its upward trend in the seven days to Tuesday December 22, with sources citing tight availability of antimony metal, a feedstock in the antimony trioxide production.
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Most China’s magnesia prices rose further on Tuesday December 22 due to a shortage of availability, while market participants are keeping a watchful eye on new cases of Covid-19 infections reported in Dalian, Liaoning province, that could affect magnesia delivery through Dalian ports.
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The Chinese domestic battery-grade lithium carbonate price continued its bullish run in the week to Thursday December 17 after most producers insisted on higher sale prices and buyers reported difficulty acquiring material below the new range.
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China’s fluorspar acidspar export prices remained stable over the week to Thursday December 17, although downstream buying activity remained slow without any significant improvement, sources told Fastmarkets.
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Sales of passenger cars in the EU dropped by 11.99% year on year in November 2020, due to a second wave Covid-19 lockdown measures being introduced in several member states.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday December 17.
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Tighter controls on mining activity in China’s Liaoning province and strict environmental regulations have eased the oversupply of magnesia in the country, stirring up an optimistic price outlook for 2021.
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Member mills of the China Iron & Steel Association (Cisa) raised their crude steel production in early December compared with the preceding 10 days, according to data published by the association on Tuesday December 15.
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The Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule is below.
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China domestic battery-grade lithium carbonate prices narrowed up by 2.3% week on week on Thursday December 10 supported by short supply, while other battery-grade prices were steady.
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