Name: Bauxite & Alumina Webinar Series - Monday 16 March
Start: 2020-03-16T13:00:00Z
End: 2020-03-16T15:38:45.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4

Fastmarkets has over 130 years of commodity expertise and aims to be the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting and intelligence service.

Using transparent and auditable methodologies to report data and insights in a variety of industries, we provide interested parties with a clear picture on the markets and their effects on business and the supply chain.

Join Fastmarkets free webinar on how the steel supply chain in Asia has responded to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, and what could be the next moves for the steel industry and its upstream raw materials.

The impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the steel supply chain

North America and the Trade War

• What are the latest impacts of trade sanctions? 
• How has the non-metallurgical side been affected in North America? 
• How are local importers of non-met feedstock reacting? What alternatives are there?

Bauxite & Alumina Webinar Series - Monday 23 March

Join our market experts as they discuss:

•Brief history of Fanya 
•Fanya auctions and their effect on minor metals prices
•What's next for minor metals after Fanya?
•How we price the minor metals markets
•Pricing governance, compliance and methodology

What's next for minor metals after Fanya?

Join our market experts as they discuss:
- Introduction to Alumina Index and our methodology 
- The move to using the API and the reasons why
- Recent market trends 
- Key market drivers ahead of the Fastmarkets Alumina Conference in Miami
- Risk management and the LME’s cash settled Alumina Contract

The evolution of the alumina market

Following on from the rebound of hot-rolled coil prices during the last quarter of 2019, we look back over the main factors that influenced the state of the market. What could the future of US hot-rolled coil look like throughout 2020 and beyond?

Join our expert as they discuss:

- Hot-rolled coil prices rebounded in the fourth quarter of 2019 and into early 2020. Will the uptrend continue for the rest of the year?
- Steel capacity additions had a huge impact on market psychology last year. Will mill idlings this year change the calculus?
- What does the spread between raw material and HRC prices in past down cycles tell us? Did we hit a bottom in the fourth quarter of 2019, or is there room for prices to fall again?
- How Fastmarkets assesses its daily US HRC index.

US Hot-Rolled Coil: Boom or bust in 2020?

Join our team for a discussion on: 
- The evolution of the cobalt market: new applications and increasing tonnage 
- A summary of responses to consultation on daily pricing 
- The practicalities of data submission for daily pricing

Cobalt pricing – volatility, spot volumes and increasing frequency

As the European domestic steel market experiences increased volatility, Fastmarkets made the informed decision to increase the frequency of its Northern Europe HRC domestic price from weekly to daily. Find out our reasons behind this decision and what the future holds for the market.

In our latest webinar we discuss:

•How we assess the daily Northern Europe HRC index
•Factors impacting price trends in 2019
•What to expect in 2020

European Hot-Rolled Coil: Protectionism, Production Cuts and Price Volatility

Join our expert team as they discuss:
- Recent market trends 
- Key market and price drivers ahead for 2020
- The move from quarterly to spot pricing in the MJP market
- An Introduction to Fastmarkets Main Japanese Ports (MJP) spot aluminium premium and our methodology

The evolution of MJP aluminium premiums

Ahead of Battery Raw Materials Conference in Amsterdam find out what our industry experts think are the key drivers in the market and what’s on the horizon

Join our experts as they discuss:
-Cobalt: metal, salts and intermediates prices since Glencore’s Mutanda closure announcement; where next? 
-Lithium: acting more like a commodity now the market is in oversupply 
-Nickel: running ahead of the fundamentals
-What’s hit demand? Headwinds, electric vehicle subsidies and fallout from the US-China trade war

What’s driving the battery raw materials markets?

Join our team as we discuss:

-What drove the price spike?
-What is the price outlook for the rest of 2019?
-How is China meeting its growing iron ore demand?
-The dam disaster in Brazil– what is the market impact six months on?

What's next for iron prices?

The Fastmarkets copper concentrates TC/RC index tracks the market’s central point, providing miners, traders and smelters with a tool to benchmark long term contracts against spot deals.   Since April, we have moved the index to a weekly assessment, bringing greater transparency to an increasingly volatile market.  

Find out how we normalize copper grades, brands and side terms as well as the process whereby our reporters collect and compile market data. We will also be presenting our insights on copper concentrate market trends.

Fastmarkets Copper Concentrates Index: Benchmarking the spot market

What's next for a market experiencing such volatility? Join our team as they examine the cobalt market, its key prices and its outlook for this year and beyond. 

Prices
We'll provide an update on price assessment specifications, methodology and hedging for cobalt metal, sulfate and hydroxide 

Market review
What's happened so far this year? We'll explain price moves and regional and product variations. How do fundamentals vary for different applications?

Outlook
Access our forecast for cobalt prices and demand. Will we see depressed prices until 2022?

Speakers:
Charlotte Radford, minors, ores and alloys editor, Europe
Susan Zou, minors, ores and alloys editor, Asia
Will Adams, head of base metals and battery research

Cobalt market: Contending with volatility in 2019 and beyond

Learn how Fastmarkets assesses the cobalt market and how you can manage your risk with the new LME cash-settled contract, launched on March 11th 2019.
 
The new London Metal Exchange cash-settled cobalt contract is settled against Fastmarkets MB’s benchmark standard-grade low cobalt price and is referred to as LME Cobalt (Fastmarkets MB). 
 
Launched in response to the desire for more hedging tools, in the context of one of the most volatile periods the cobalt market has seen in years, the new Fastmarkets-settled cobalt contract on the LME will provide the market with the ability to manage their price exposure. 
 
Fastmarkets has developed strong auditable pricing processes and acquired type 1 IOSCO accreditation for its standard-grade cobalt spot price assessment, ensuring its position as the world’s most trusted and robust industry reference.
 
Join us and the LME as we discuss:

  - Recent market trends
  - Key market and price drivers ahead for 2019
  - The need for risk management in the cobalt market and how the new hedging instrument works
  - Why Fastmarkets prices were selected as the basis for the new contract
  - The difference between cash-settled and physically delivered cobalt contract

Presented by:
  - Charlotte Radford, minors, ores and alloys editor, Fastmarkets 
  - Antonio Masiero, product development manager, London Metal Exchange

Introducing the new Fastmarkets-settled LME cobalt contract

Join Fastmarkets for a deep dive into: 
•Factors impacting price trends so far in 2019
•What to expect in coming months 
•How we assess our daily US Midwest hot-rolled coil index

US Hot-Rolled Coil: Price Swings in 2019 and Beyond

Learn how Fastmarkets assesses daily alumina indices and aluminium premium assessments and how you can manage your risk with the new LME cash-settled contracts, launching on March 11th 2019.

Presented by: 
 - Alice Mason, aluminium & alumina market reporter, Fastmarkets
 - Justin Yang, aluminium market reporter, Fastmarkets
 - Christian Mildner, head of corporate sales, London Metal Exchange

The new London Metal Exchange cash-settled aluminium duty-unpaid European contract will be settled against Fastmarkets MB’s benchmark Rotterdam premium. Launched in response to the desire for more hedging tools, driven by one of the most volatile periods the physical European aluminium market has seen in years, the new Fastmarkets-settled duty-unpaid aluminium contract on the LME will provide the market with the ability to manage their price exposure. Fastmarkets has developed strong auditable pricing processes and acquired type 2 IOSCO accreditation for its spot aluminium premium assessments, making it the world’s most trusted and robust industry reference.

The new cash-settled alumina contract will be settled against Fastmarkets MB’s benchmark daily fob Australia alumina index and CRU’s alumina price index – equal weighting given to each index in line with industry usage of indices in physical contracts. This new contract will enable risk management in times of extreme bullishness and uncertainty over future price moves.

Join us and the LME as we discuss:
 - Recent market trends
 - Key market and price drivers ahead for 2019
 - The need for risk management in these markets and how the instruments work
 - Why Fastmarkets prices were selected as the basis for these new contracts
 - Functionality associated with a basket contract

Introducing new Fastmarkets-settled LME alumina and aluminium premium contracts

近期小金属市场趋势，2019年决定价格发展的因素
环保检查会如何影响今年的小金属市场
中国打击走私是否会继续影响锑市场
全球贸易的不确定性-贸易战，宏观经济和政治因素
我们如何评估小金属价格

Fastmarkets小金属价格发现和2019年市场趋势

Agenda:

•Will Chinese steel production continue to beat expectations?
•Have operational margins at steel mills peaked?
•Prospects of demand for higher-grade iron ore.

Ferrous metal, full steam ahead?

9:00am Bauxite and alumina price

•Volatility over the past year and key market movers
•Close-up of Fastmarkets’ bauxite and alumina prices
•Non-met pricing update: refractory bauxite grade, BFA and WFA
•Hedging tools for alumina

Alice Mason, Senior Price Reporter, Fastmarkets
Davide Ghilotti, Industrial Minerals Editor, Europe, Fastmarkets

10:00am India: What challenges do new projects face?

•Latest updates on key projects in development
•What are the production, import and export trends of Indian Bauxite?
•What are the future opportunities for India’s bauxite and alumina industry?

Ashok Nandi, President, International Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium Society

11:00am Aluminium fluoride - latest update

•Sustainable aluminium fluoride production
•Fluoro silicic acid and the circular economy
•The future of 'low bulk density' Aluminium fluoride

Suzanne Shaw, Division Manager - Industrial Minerals & Chemicals, Roskill

Bauxite & Alumina Webinar Series - Monday 16 March

Bauxite

Bauxite grade

Alumina

Commodities

Refractories

Aluminium

Aluminium Fluoride

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