Producers of porous plug in steady operation 2019-11-26
Nov. 25, 2019 - Market prices of porous plus for steel ladle maintain stability in November, with company offer above RMB 10,000 per ton and differing according to different specifications. As a kind of functional consumable refractories, porous plug is mainly used in steel ladle to purify the molten steel and to improve the steel quality. In China, there are chiefly two modes of purcha…
MgO-Al2O3 spinel brick in supply and demand instability 2019-11-26
Nov. 25, 2019 - The current market supply and demand of magnesia alumina spinel brick is not stable, with prices fluctuating greatly in different areas. Refwin survey shows that the causes for this situation are on one hand the influence of the overall comprehensive treatment of air pollution since Autumn and Winter, resulting in shut downs among some small and medium-sized pr…
Dead burned magnesia 94%-95% weakens under heating season 2019-11-25
Nov. 25, 2019 - Recently, cement producers in Northeast China and Shandong province are notified to halt or restrict production during heating season, which makes downstream purchase demand shrink. Under this circumstance, dead burned magnesia 94%-95% encounters weaker operation combined with price slide. At the moment, ex-works price including tax of DBM 95% stands at RMB 2,500-2,800/t, a vis…
Market situation of kaolin in Shanxi province 2019-11-25
Nov. 25, 2019 - Refwin report showed that kaolin prices continue to drop in Shanxi province this month. In fact, increasing production costs and fuel costs pose huge challenges to kaolin producers, which aggravates supply shortage. At the moment, with large amounts of new capacity becoming available in Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, tight supply gets eased and fierce competition emerges in …
Prices of sintered mullite remain stable 2019-11-25
Nov. 25, 2019 - In Hunan province, at the moment, prices of sintered mullite (M70 and M60) remain stable, according to Refwin survey. Actually, the stability sees sintered mullite market of Shanxi province and Henan province as well. Some participants involved from Hunan indicated that supply capacity is fairly tight, which is different from that of the first three months of this year. …
Dead burned magnesia 90%-92% keeps basically calm 2019-11-25
Nov. 25, 2019 - According to Refwin surveys to dead burned magnesia 90%-92% participants in Liaoning province, most producers’ stockpiles are within normal level and even some of them meet with tight supply on shortage, with ex-works price including tax lifted to RMB 1,700/t. Given overall trading volume is not bad, the enterprises owning excess inventory choose to make quotations unchanged i…
White fused alumina stocks in Chiping, Shandong keep decreasing 2019-11-25
Nov. 22, 2019 – The white fused alumina market in Chiping, Shandong, which is a key supply source of white fused alumina in China, remains low in price. Because of strict environmental curbs, many local producers have to halt or curtail production, which has led to a significant decrease in inventory. Meanwhile, downstream buyers also have cut down their purchase quantity due to …
Fused magnesia's downturn hard to be reversed 2019-11-25
Nov. 25, 2019 - For the moment, fused magnesia still keeps on its weak performance. Refwin investigations show a number of fused magnesia makers in Liaoning province possess stock quantity of hundreds of tons, though factories with massive inventory haven’t been found. The majority of them opt for curtailing production volume timely on the basis of trading quantity under bleak situation, whic…
Prices of bentonite remain stable 2019-11-25
Nov, 25, 2019 - Refwin source showes that market of bentonite is stable in Shandong province and the situation of supply and price is equivalent to that of last month. Some bentonite producers from Northeast China indicated that they can produce normally with abundant inventory. That said, many producers are not willing to cooperate with steel plants directly due to restrained payment. …
Dead burned magnesia 96-97% dips again 2019-11-25
Nov. 25, 2019 - Entering heating season, dead burned magnesia 96-97% market carries on soft performance with comparatively high inventory. Even some factories have stock of thousands of tons. Consequently, there appears continuous lower market price. Compared with last month, mainstream price of dead burned magnesia 96.5% witnesses a drop of RMB 100-200/t. That of dead burned magnesia 97% is a…
Overcapacity sees graphite electrode industry 2019-11-25
Nov. 25, 2019 - Graphite electrode prices encounter headwinds on the back of overall skimp gains of steel plants, an analyst from Refwin said. The rise and fall of graphite electrode producers are closely connected to the developments of steel industry. In the past several years, the market of graphite electrode embraced a highlight with rapid expansion of numerous steel participants. A…
Magnesia dry vibrating mix favored among consumers 2019-11-23
Nov. 22, 2019 - Magnesia dry vibrating mix is favored among customers for its wide range of applications, with its price keeping stable in November, and EXW Price difference for MgO: 80-83% at about RMB 500-600 per ton Featured with simple construction, high thermal efficiency, high slag clearance rate, fast turnover of tundish, improved quality of molten steel, long service l…
Overall contracting popular among Al2O3-MgO-C brick 2019-11-23
Nov. 22, 2019 - The overall market holds steady for alumina-magnesia-carbon brick (Al2O3≥78%, MgO: 8%, C: 8%) in November. Because of alumina-magnesia-carbon brick being featured with anti-erosion, anti-spalling, balanced erosion, safty in use, less viscous slag, easy for removal, etc, it is chiefly used as the steel ladle lining where the environment is relatively harsher, and is…
Market supply of silica fume remains tight 2019-11-23
Nov. 23, 2019 - The tight supply of silica fume was not alleviated in November. Due to the current dry season, coupled with the weak silicon metal market, many silicon metal companies have stopped production, resulting in tight supply of silica fume. The flowability and some indicators of silica fume have a great impact on the quality of the end products. Producers said that the …
Calcined bauxite shows stable trends in Xiaoyi this winter 2019-11-23
Nov. 23, 2019 - Rotary based calcined bauxite for different grades (Al2O3≥80%, 85%, 88%) shows no significant changes in prices entering the heating season. Production costs have always remained at very high level against consecutive environmental protection investment and ore bauxite shortage. Xiangwang Mine, the only legal mine for bauxite ore in Xiaoyi, which has been reporting in t…
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