Commodity Market Report
Bulk steel alloys short-term outlook February 2022
Report summary
Bulk steel alloys markets experienced an eventful 2021 with surging alloy prices in H2 influenced by rapidly rising freight rates, China’s power crunch and emissions control measures in China. These themes will continue to influence the development of these markets over the coming year. Adding to this, the bulk alloy markets will not remain unimpacted by the situation in Ukraine, though the extent and scale of the implications will only become clearer in the coming weeks and months.
Table of contents
- Chromium
- Manganese
- Ferrosilicon and silicon metal
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Chromium
- Ore prices rise on higher costs, constraints, and low stocks
- Ferrochrome prices lose momentum
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Manganese
- High grade ore price set to remain firm
- Manganese alloy prices to trend downwards
- US and European silicon and ferrosilicon prices likely to normalise following Chinese market
- Chinese ferrosilicon prices peaked in Q4
- Silicon metal prices follow the ferrosilicon trend
- Crude steel trends
- Stainless steel trends
- Chromium
- Manganese
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Silicon
- Ferrosilicon
- Silicon metal
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Chromium
- Ore supply grows by 24% in 2021
- Ferrochrome supply
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Manganese
- Manganese ore supply
- Manganese alloy supply
- Manganese metal supply
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Silicon
- Ferrosilicon
- Silicon metal
Tables and charts
This report includes 34 images and tables including:
- Chromium key forecasts
- Manganese key forecasts
- Silicon and ferrosilicon key forecasts
- Chinese crude steel production
- Quarterly global stainless steel production
- Stainless steel production growth vs scrap ratio by region
- 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
- Quarterly silicomanganese price forecast
- Quarterly high carbon ferromanganese price forecast
- Quarterly MC FeMn and manganese metal price forecast
- Ferrosilicon monthly prices
- Silicon metal monthly prices
- Global ferrosilicon price forecast
- Global silicon metal price forecast
- Quarterly ferrosilicon consumption by first use
- Quarterly ferrosilicon consumption by region
- Quarterly silicon metal consumption by first use
- Quarterly silicon metal consumption by region
- Quarterly chromium ore supply by region
- Quarterly ferrochrome supply by region
- Quarterly manganese ore supply by region
- Quarterly silicomanganese supply by region
- Quarterly high carbon ferromanganese supply by region
- Quarterly medium carbon ferromanganese supply by region
- Global ferrosilicon production
- Global silicon metal production
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