Name: Bauxite & Alumina Webinar Series - Monday 23 March
Start: 2020-03-23T15:00:00Z
End: 2020-03-23T15:00:24.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 3.5

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

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

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

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

Bauxite

Bauxite grade

Alumina

Commodities

Refractories

Aluminium Markets

Aluminium Fluoride

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Bauxite & Alumina Webinar Series - Monday 23 March

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