We often look to nickel to judge the direction of the stainless market. Likewise, when looking at nickel, almost always refer to the stainless market to discern direction. The two are inextricably linked within our view of the high end of the steel market, but in practice, more stainless is produced with purely chrome alloying [...]
by Taras Berezowsky on April 26, 2011
Style: Industry News
Category: Ferro Alloys, Ferrous Metals, Metal Fabricated Parts, Non-ferrous Metals, Product Developments
Keywords: Aluminum, Ferro Alloys, Ferrous Metals, Non-ferrous Metals, Stainless Steel, Steel
Imagine hanging hundreds of feet above the ground on a rock face with nothing but small, fabricated metals parts to keep you from falling to your death. This is what Joseph Schwartz and Karl Guthrie lived for and how they made their company ClimbTech into what it is today. Schwartz and Guthrie, both passionate rock [...]
Source: Voice of America The world observes the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster (April 26th, 1986) tomorrow, the worst nuclear accident in history. The Fukushima debacle in Japan following the earthquake and tsunami last month has thrust Chernobyl back into the spotlight, for better or worse, as a comparative example for scientists, politicians and [...]
(Read Part One here.) Before we left off with some pretty heavy questions in Part One, we mentioned that additive manufacturing — aka 3D printing — seems to be more widely used in Europe than in the US. If there was one American with his finger on the pulse of metal printing more than anyone [...]
As with many of the ferro alloys, ferro chrome (FeCr) is at least in part a power play. Electricity makes up a significant percentage of the final product cost but so do coal prices, or to be precise, coking coal prices. Coking coal and electricity are required to reduce a chrome ore, generally chromite (an [...]
Source: Mining-journal.com 1. “China Doing To Uranium What It Has Done To Copper One of our most recent posts, this article is already one of the 2010′s best viewed. Stuart looks at China’s effect on a pretty “hot minor metal market in terms of news this year: uranium. 2. “Ferrochrome Prices Continue Their Relentless Rise [...]
China’s ferro-alloys production has been hit by the same energy restrictions that curtailed aluminum production in the third and fourth quarters this year. A Metal-Pages report states the government had ordered many ferro-alloys producers to shut down in the last few months to meet its energy saving targets. However, the National Development and Reform Commission, [...]
The debate about adding ferro-chrome as an LME contract is not as far fetched as it may first sound. As Roskill advises, the stainless steel industry is by far the largest consumer of ferro-chrome. The industry is dominated by just three countries of supply – South Africa, Kazakhstan and India, with South Africa by far [...]
