Commodity Market Report
Bulk steel alloys short-term outlook April 2022
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Report summary
High costs and tight supply continue to keep bulk alloy prices supported in western markets, while in China renewed price support will come in the form of high ore and reductant costs. In ore markets, supply side constraints, including logistics bottlenecks in South Africa, may prolong the current understocking. The impacts of the Ukraine-Russia crisis, particularly to alloy production cost inputs, will be protracted but heavily skewed towards western markets.
Table of contents
- Chromium
- Manganese
- Ferrosilicon and silicon metal
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Chromium
- Ore prices maintain upward momentum on low stocks
- Rising costs, bottlenecks boost ferrochrome prices
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Manganese
- High-grade ore price firm but set to turn downwards
- Little further upside in manganese alloy prices
- Manganese metal price normalises, refined ferromanganese to follow
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Silicon
- Ferrosilicon prices pushed up by direct impacts of Ukraine war
- Ferrosilicon prices rise through April
- US silicon metal prices remain anomalously high
- Crude steel trends
- Stainless steel trends
- Chromium
- Manganese
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Silicon
- Ferrosilicon
- Silicon metal
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Chromium
- Ore supply on track for 9% growth in 2022
- Ferrochrome supply
- 2 more item(s)...
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
- Key chromium forecasts
- Key manganese forecasts
- Key silicon forecasts
- Annual crude steel production
- Quarterly global stainless steel production
- Stainless steel production growth vs scrap ratio by region, 2021-2024
- Quarterly chromium consumption by first use
- Quarterly chromium consumption in stainless steel by region
- Manganese alloy and metal consumption outlook
- Quarterly chromium ore prices and forecasts
- Quarterly high-carbon ferrochrome prices and forecasts
- Quarterly manganese ore price forecast
- 19 more item(s)...
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