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  • How the Indian ferro alloys industry is surviving the COVID-19 scare

    How the Indian ferro alloys industry is surviving the COVID-19 scare

    Mr Manish Sarda, Director of International Business, Sarda Minerals & Energy and Chairman, IFAPA, will dwell on prevailing market uncertainty and the strategies to be adopted to tide over the crisis.

    Join us on Saturday, 11th of April, 11:30 a.m.(IST), to gain a holistic perspective on how the Indian ferro alloys industry is surviving the COVID-19 scare.

     


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    Points of Discussion:

    • Disruption in domestic ferro alloys production and present capacity utilization
    • Plummeting demand from the steel industry after countrywide shutdown
    • Impact on manganese ore supply and prices after lock-down in South Africa and Australia
    • Recuperating Chinese market and impact on Indian ferro alloys exports
    • How the supply glut and evaporating demand impact prices in short term
  • Chinese steel industry comeback from COVID-19, what next?

    Chinese steel industry comeback from COVID-19, what next?

    Ms Hongmei Li, Head of Editorial for Mysteel Global sheds light on the challenges faced by China’s Steel Market amidst COVID-19 and how the economy can make up for the lost time in 2020 and beyond.

     

    1. China’s macro-economic environment and its challenges.

    2. China’s steel mills status quo regarding domestic operations and demand (capacity utilization, stocks, downstream demand)

    3.Challenges facing in the weeks to come (demand from downstream users such as auto, machinery and home appliances that may lead to less steel consumption, raw material supplies in the middle of lockdowns in many countries that are primary supply sources)

    4. China’s iron ore consumption model, and what are the alternatives (domestic iron ore, existing iron ore inventories, Vale’s moving blending to China from Malaysia and their feedstocks optimization via scrap ratio)