Ferro Alloys Production Analysis
When it comes to ferroalloy industry, we have to talk about its developing history. It first emerged in Europe and spread all around the world little by little. However, with the prompt development and progress of science and technology, more and more old manual equipment or some industry have been eliminated and replaced by emerging equipment or industry during the past 10-20 years. Not only that, in this period, some developed countries have given up or are giving up ferroalloy production. As for why they gave up, we have summarized some reasons, but are not limited to these: High costs, whether in manpower or material resources, such as labor costs and electricity fee; Environmental protection and contaminant emission; Resource shortage, etc.
Developed countries we mentioned above concluded: Japan, South Korea, Italy, Britain, Germany and so on.
Generally speaking, different countries have different merits whatever it is big or small. For example, China, Brazil, Ukraine, South Africa and so on enriches mineral resources. While, for electricity, Sweden and Norway enriched. These countries we mentioned above are producers and exporters for ferroalloy.
Ferroalloy Production Status in India
As one of the most populous countries in the world, steel industry developed rapidly in India. Finally, it surpassed Japan and became the second largest steel producer in the world in 2018. There is no doubt that China is still the largest steel producer in the globe. However, there is no winning general in the world. According to forecast, if it increases by this rate, its steel production capacity will reach 300 million tons, at the same time, it will surpass China and become the world’s largest steel producer in 2030.
Top three import sources of rare earth ferroalloys for India are China, Netherlands and Bhutan in 2023. It mainly imports manganese ore, ferrochrome nitride and so on due to quality and other reasons.
Compared with domestic, silicon manganese, high carbon ferromanganese(HC FeMn) and high carbon ferrochrome(HC FeCr) are competitive products in India.
Recommended products: alloy cored wire, calcium metal, ferro molybdenum, calcium silicon, silicon barium.
Ferroalloy Production Status in Russia
Frankly speaking, Russian steel industry is prosperous and proportion of products that added calcium in Russian steel technology is high relatively. In addition, its quality standard for ferroalloy product is purer than domestic. Besides, they also have some friendly merits for their clients: high price tolerance and short decision time.
Recommended products: ferro chrome, calcium metal, silicon iron, calcium silicon.
Ferro Alloy Production
Other countries such as Brazil and Mexico have adequate rainfall whether in the whole year or not and rich power resources. Brazil enriches a large amount of tropical rainforest.
Concretely speaking, Brazil is the largest silicon iron producer in Central and South America. Especially, in some industrial product realm, it has been become the main Chinese competitor such as ferrosilicon, industrial silicon and others.
Production and export: silicon manganese, silicon iron.
As for Mexico, it has adequate seasonal rainfall due to tropical savanna climate. Its production and export: silicon iron, silicon manganese.
Japan imported iron alloy after re-processing for use in steel, a large amount of silicon manganese and silicon iron from China.
Despite Korea produces high carbon manganese iron(HC FeMn), silicon manganese, it still needs large imports of chrome iron, silicon iron and other iron alloys.
