Conference: Raw Materials in Metallurgy: Sales, Production, Logistics
Date: March 27–28, 2025
Date and venue: 27-28 March 2025, LOTTE HOTEL MOSCOW, 2 Bld, 8 Novinskiy Blvd, Moscow
Organisers: MAXConference jointly with the MMI information and consulting agency.
The event will be attended by about 200 delegates — top managers of metallurgical and raw materials companies in Russia and the CIS countries, owners of rolling stock.
Among the key topics:
DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS OF THE METALLURGICAL COMMODITIES MARKET
— Russia's ferrous metallurgy: Performance in 2024 and outlook for 2025
— Efficiency of Russia's metallurgical and commodities operations
— Logistics of commodities and finished goods in Russia: Changes and new challenges
— New restrictions and barriers to global trade: Threat or opportunity?
IRON ORE MARKET
— Global market of metallurgical commodities. China's iron ore market in 2024, outlook for 2025. Steel production and the shift to EAF
— Changes in contracting practices in the Russian domestic iron ore market
— Iron ore product portfolio strategy under the domestic focus shift
— Developing CIS raw materials markets: New projects, products, markets
— Changes in the metal companies development strategies under limited exports
COKING COAL MARKET
— Russian coking coal market changes in 2024, outlook for 2025.
— China's coking coal market in 2024, outlook for 2025. Price vs quality in the Chinese market. Coal logistics under slowing steel demand (Russia vs Australia).
— India's coking coal market in 2024, outlook for 2025. Domestic coking coal production and imports — where will demand shift as steelmaking grows?
— Obstacles to and prospects for expanding exports to Asia
— Domestic formula pricing revisited
SCRAP, CAST IRON, HBI MARKETS
— Global cast iron market: changing flows amid new restrictions on Russian imports. Russian manufacturers' operating rates
— Developing the domestic market for HBI and substitute products
— Changing domestic scrap market in Russia
— Russian scrap export restrictions
— Pros and cons of exporting scrap
FERROALLOYS MARKET
— Key changes in the domestic and global ferroalloys market in 2024, outlook for 2025
— Russian ferroalloys exports in a new reality. Opportunities and risks
— Manganese and chrome ore markets overview. Key players. Where Russia stands. Import substitution
— Price situation in the manganese alloy and ore market
— India's ferroalloys market development in 2024, outlook for 2025, export opportunities
— Ferroalloy producers market in Kazakhstan as a major trading partner with Russia. Production potential and new projects
— Key developments in the noble ferroalloy (FeV/FeMo) markets
