Iran’s steel industry has been growing rapidly in recent years in line with the country’s ambitious plan to raise output to 55 million tonnes per year by 2025.The country’s crude steel output in 2018 stood at around 22.8 MnT, registering a surge

The hype around graphite electrodes demand and prices that started in the latter half of 2017 due to supply-side structural changes in China seems to have subsided with GE demand exceeding supply in China and country’s subsequent exports of its produce to

It seems that the slowdown in steel demand and plunge in graphite electrode (GE) prices over the past few months are hitting Indian electrodes manufacturers as, according to some market sources, there is news that Graphite India is contemplating production cuts. GE

It seems that the tables have turned for the global graphite electrodes manufacturers including that of India as after enjoying the price buoyancy for almost two years, the same are falling freely without any restraint. Now as per the latest information that

SteelMint has learnt that Russian electrodes major, Energoprom (EPM) Group along with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and Government of the Rostov Oblast has signed a special investment contract for the modernization of production of graphite electrodes

The Global events have continued to affect Price dynamics of Steel Industry in 2019. There prevails turbulence and uncertainty as we face the big question of how will the market pan out in 2020? Amidst Trade Wars caused by US Protectionism and

Amid the increased graphite electrodes supplies from China and subsequent fallin global GE prices, Japan’s key electrodes manufacturer, Showa Denko has decided to improve its Carbon division’s production facilities in Europe with a planned investment of 5 billion yen. The company has

The upheaval in graphite electrodes demand in past two years and a steady surge in the requirements for graphite anodes for lithium-ion batteries in China has boosted the needle-coke demand in the country. In 2018, the overall performance of China’s needle coke

With the GE prices in China falling since November last year and then becoming stable over past one month, the big question hovering is where is the country’s electrodes prices are heading to. To get an answer to this let us analyse

IMO 2020 is likely to exert pressure on the main consumers of needle coke – the GE and lithium-ion battery industries At a time when it seemed that the panic in the global Graphite Electrode (GE) industry had subsided and prices had