Ferro-alloys market 2025: Trends, rising steel demand, stable policies and key challenges fuelling uncertainty.

There are five major challenges facing China’s green ferro-alloys premiums, multiple sources told Fastmarkets at the 40th International Ferro-alloys Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 10-12.

Get the key takeaways from our recent webinar covering the future of US ferro-chrome pricing in a post-benchmark world.

Chinese steelmakers exporting low-carbon emission steel products will be among key users of green ferro-alloys, mainly because of the carbon emissions reduction requirements of the end users in their export destinations, sources told Fastmarkets.

The prices reflect the rising demand among market participants for green ferro-chrome prices from the Chinese market, amid the continuous push by the country, which is the world’s largest ferro-chrome producer, to drive green production of the materials in line with decarbonization goals. Fastmarkets’ green ferroalloy domestic, ferro-chrome differential, will be assessed every week against […]

Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-FEC-0021 ferro-chrome high carbon 6-8.5% C, basis 65-70% Cr, max 1.5% Si, delivered Europe, which was published incorrectly on Tuesday September 24.

As we approach the end of the first quarter after the termination of the quarterly European ferro-chrome benchmark, Fastmarkets looks at what has happened since the benchmark ended – and what could happen next.

The death knell sounded on Monday May 20 for the quarterly European ferro-chrome benchmark, bringing with it the end of a long-running, divisive, often disputed, yet highly influential and important pricing mechanism

Fastmarkets confirmed on Thursday May 23 that it will continue to publish its weekly ferro-chrome benchmark indicator for Europe, after the discontinuation of the European official industry ferro-chrome benchmark pricing system.

European ferro-chrome market faces uncertainty after discontinuation of quarterly benchmark pricing system