'Impact of COVID-19 to Global Metallurgical Supply Chain &Ore Market International Webinar Conference

2023-03-31 16:42:48 531

Respected Metallurgy industry chain friends,

The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted our daily life and work, which caused the global economy and people's lives and property huge losses. Under the strong leadership of Chinese government, China has achieved a staged victory to fight against the epidemic, the business work restart orderly. However, the spread of COVID-19 in other countries brought a great uncertainty to China and global economy.

For the metallurgy industry, Chinese domestic steel inventories reached to 34.3 million tons with the high record under the impact of corona virus, the steel demand got soft and weak after the downstream industry halts and cuts. China launched major infrastructure projects and series of policies to support the Small and Medium Enterprises and promote the growth and recovery of import and export trade business since March. But the outbreak of overseas epidemics in March gradually revealed the impact of import and export trade business. Now China with a long term depending on imported iron ore, manganese ore and chrome ore has encountered the impact of the epidemic situation which main exporting countries outbreak. The metallurgical industry supply chain face the potential risks and challenges.

South Africa as the important manganese ore and chrome ore exported country to China, South Africa exported the volume of 13.426 million tons of manganese ore and 12.556 million tons of chromium ore in 2019, which accounts for 39.27% and 78.97% of the total imported of China. In Jan-Feb 2020, Chinese manganese ore and chrome ore imported from South Africa increased by 40.2% and 86.66% to 1.796 million tons and 2.148 million tons. South Africa announced that the 21 days lockdown which influenced the delivery time of April and impacted the Chinese domestic manganese and chrome spot market quickly.

We,Ferro-Alloys.com is planing to organize the online international conference 'Impact of COVID-19 to Global Metallurgical Supply Chain and Ore Market'. We sincerely invite all insiders to attend free.

Conference time: 19:30-22:00, 14th April 2020 （Beijing Time）

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Impact on Global Metallurgical Supply Chain& Ores Market

by Co-Virus Epidemic

Online International Conference

Agenda

14th April 2020 Tuesday
	Conductor: Mr.Karl Liu-CEO- Sino-Minemet Intl Co
	Theme
19:30-20:00	The Challenge of China Steel Industry by the COVID-19 Impacting - Mr. Li Xinchuang, Chairman of China Metallurgical Planning Net, Vice Chairman of China Iron and Steel Association
20:00-20:30	The COVID-19 Impacting to the Chrome ore and Manganese ore Mining and Export in South Africa - Mr. Liu Dong, General Manager of Sinosteel SA Chrome Pty Ltd
20:30-21:00	The Risk of South Africa Manganese Supplying to the Chinese SiMn Plants -Mr. Li Manchun, General Manager of Tianjin Jitie International Trade Co., Ltd
21:00-21:30	Impact of COVID-19 on Indian Steel Industry -Mr. Manoj Kumar Thakur, Advisor of Million Link CEO
21:30-22:00	Panel Forum Guests
	Mr. Hill Summer, President of Million Link(China) Investment Limited Mr. Wang Quanyi, President of Tianjin Jinsheng Metallurgical Products Co., Ltd Mr. Wang Jianmin, President of Dragon Northwest Ferroalloy Co., Ltd Mr. Wang Liancheng, vice general manager of Tangshan Dingxiang Manganese Industry Co. , Ltd Mr. Luo Yuheng, Director of SPIC Guizhou Jinyuan Suiyang Industrial Co., Ltd Mr. David Tian, analyst of www.ferro-alloys.com