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ICR 2020: Refractories recovery will be prolonged, especially outside China, industry boss says

Wednesday, 16 September 2020

The refractories environment was unlikely to return to a pre-Covid-19 state before 2022, attendees at an industry conference were told on Wednesday September 16.
ArcelorMittal decides against BF restart at Fos-sur-Mer plant in France

Monday, 14 September 2020

ArcelorMittal has decided not to restart blast furnace (BF) No1 at its plant Fos-sur-Mer in France, the company’s spokesman told Fastmarkets on Friday September 11.
Krakow steelworks' hot area to be restarted 'when economically viable,' ArcelorMittal says

Friday, 11 September 2020

ArcelorMittal Poland has denied accusations from local trade union Sierpien 80 that it was abandoning plans to relight blast furnaces in its Krakow plant, saying that operations in the steelworks’ hot area will be resumed but “only when it is economically viable,” the company’s spokesperson told Fastmarkets on Wednesday September 9.
PRICING NOTICE: Open consultation on industrial minerals methodology

Tuesday, 01 September 2020

Fastmarkets is inviting feedback from the industry on its pricing methodology for its industrial minerals, as part of its annual methodology review process and compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) principles for PRAs.

PRICING NOTICE: Open consultation on industrial minerals methodology

Tuesday, 01 September 2020

Fastmarkets is inviting feedback from the industry on its pricing methodology for its industrial minerals, as part of its annual methodology review process and compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) principles for PRAs.
Abrasive-grade silicon carbide prices drift lower on weaker market sentiment

Friday, 28 August 2020

Prices for abrasive-grade silicon carbide dropped over the past month, with volatility from other abrasive industrial minerals filtering through due to slack demand.
Silicon carbide prices buck downward trend of other minerals hit by Covid-19

Wednesday, 29 July 2020

Silicon carbide prices for abrasive and refractory applications remained mostly steady month on month on Tuesday July 28, bucking the downward trend of other industrial minerals since the beginning of the year as a consequence of the economic slowdown triggered by the Covid-19 global pandemic.
Silicon carbide prices static with demand held back by lockdowns

Monday, 01 June 2020

Silicon carbide prices for refractory applications were assessed unchanged month on month on Tuesday May 26 despite continued subdued demand for the material, with much of Europe only now beginning to come out of the lockdown conditions imposed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

INTERVIEW: ‘I believe AK Steel is a diamond in the rough’ - Lourenco Goncalves

Monday, 08 June 2020

Battle tested, hard-nosed, and, at times, known to be very blunt, the top executive of the largest and oldest independent iron ore mining company in the US has been called many things in an almost 40-year career spent from one end of the steel supply chain to the other. Fearful is not one of them.
Taking the brakes off auto production

Monday, 08 June 2020

Steel mills and service centers expect a slow restart to auto making, reports Gregory DL Morris.
INTERVIEW: ‘I am going to transform our company’ - Severstal CEO

Friday, 03 January 2020

Alexander Shevelev, CEO of Russian steelmaker Severstal, says that the company has changed its culture quite quickly and substantially to focus on being a solutions provider. Richard Barrett asked him to explain that mission and to recall his path from the shop floor to the top of a company that employs 50,000 people
Steel market woes are weighing on refractories

Friday, 03 January 2020

Pressure is continuing to mount on the refractories sector while its main market – the steel industry – suffers from overcapacity, trade tensions and emissions reduction targets, Rose Pengelly finds.