Stainless Steel

Demand for specialised stainless steel grades is showing signs of growth in several South African industries, although challenging economic conditions are making customers increasingly... 

South Africa’s stainless steel industry needs coordinated interventions across the value chain to address weak domestic demand, rising energy and logistics costs, global overcapacity and increasing... 

South Africa’s stainless steel demand remains resilient, but tends to fluctuate, with customers focusing on maintenance, plant reliability and projects where corrosion resistance and life-cycle... 

Indonesia is learning that building a dominant position in the nickel market is the easy part. Leveraging its influence over supply to control prices is proving much trickier. The Southeast Asian... 

Smelters at a major Indonesian nickel-processing hub will be forced to cut output as an El Niño-driven drought reduces the supply of water used to cool and protect equipment, according to people... 

Hong Kong-listed miner MMG is willing to guarantee long-term ferronickel supplies to European customers as it seeks to rescue its acquisition of Anglo American's Brazilian nickel business from... 

Iron-ore prices rose for a second session on Thursday, as Chinese steelmakers stepped up seaborne purchases ahead of a national holiday, although shrinking steel mill margins clouded the demand... 

Hong Kong-listed miner MMG is willing to guarantee long-term ferronickel supplies to European customers as it seeks to rescue its acquisition of Anglo American's AAL.L Brazilian nickel business... 

The first half of 2026 has brought significant changes across the global chromium value chain. Strong stainless steel production continued to support demand for chrome ore and ferrochrome, while... 

Global mining infrastructure products provider Jennmar has entered into a long-term partnership with stainless steel producer Outokumpu Corporation to supply ground control products for the Kemi... 

By: Thabo Moloto - founder and CEO of Rootz Investments South Africa holds the richest chrome endowment on Earth, yet we cannot keep our own furnaces lit. Two decades of shipping raw ore overseas... 

Planning with purpose As Columbus Stainless operations and material flow planner, Rato Mtsweni is helping to keep production moving as she manages material allocation and production scheduling from... 

JSE-listed Merafe Resources achieved a profit of R512-million for the six months ended June 30, compared with a profit of R233-million for the six months ended June 30, 2025, on the back of... 

Leading South African supplier of specialised engineering products and solutions EMVAfrica was founded by Hugh Whitty in 1992 as Energy Metals. Five years later, Ken Perel established Multi Alloys... 

Chrome is a growing value contributor to the revenue base of Sibanye-Stillwater’s South Africa platinum group metals (PGM) portfolio, delivering margins, resilience and project support. Chrome has... 

With Middelburg at the heart of the South Africa’s power generation sector, providing about 80% of the country’s energy, there is a need to bolster the use of the region’s resources through... 

JSE- and LSE-listed mining, metals and innovation company Tharisa remains on track to meet its full-year production guidance, while development of its Tharisa underground project, in South Africa,... 

As the global industrial landscape progresses in 2026, it is apparent that a period of “profound transformation” is under way, as the rise in electric vehicle manufacturing and an urgent push for... 

TSX-V-listed Canada Nickel Company has announced a strategic commercial partnership with RWE Supply & Trading - a global energy and carbon trading firm - to support the commercialisation of...