Conference: Raw Materials in Metallurgy: Sales, Production, Logistics
Date: March 23–24, 2026
Organizers: MAXConference in collaboration with information and consulting agency Metals & Mining Intelligence.
Key topics include:
DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS OF THE METALLURGICAL COMMODITIES MARKET
— Russia's flat products market: Results of 2025 and expectations for 2026
— Steel market in Asia: 2025 results and outlook. Development of imports and exports under excessive capacity and protective duties. Expectations from the introduction of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in Europe.
— Macroeconomics and its impact on the Russian mining and metallurgical sector in 2025. Forecast scenarios and ramifications for 2026-2027
— Cost optimisation in mining and metallurgy: Opportunities and limitations
— Rail logistics as a constraint on developing exports under Group D Incoterms
METALLURGICAL COMMODITIES MARKET
— Global market of metallurgical commodities. China's iron ore market in 2025, outlook for 2026
— Developing iron ore production capacities in Russia: Mining, enrichment, lumping
— Concept of pricing development in the Russian domestic iron ore market. Can we go from formulas to spot and back again?
— Changing the configuration of the domestic market for concentrate and pellets, or why the ‘floating’ premium on pellets in winter/summer
— Prospects for developing iron ore export hubs in Russian seaports
— Evolution of the iron ore and directly reduced raw materials markets in the CIS: New projects, products and markets
— The concept of metallurgical value in the sintering and blast furnace process on the back of falling markets and declining steel production – what conditions make transition to lower-quality raw materials profitable?
COKING COAL MARKET
— China's coking coal market in 2025, outlook for 2026. The role and potential of Russian coking coal in China's metallurgy.
— India's coking coal market in 2025, outlook for 2026. The role and potential of Russian coking coal in India's metallurgy.
— Russia's domestic market for coking coal in the face of falling demand and export restrictions. Is quality necessary if quantity is not?
— Coke chemical capability development in Russia: Current climate and outlook.
— Russia's coking coal market: Prices v. quality. Quality premium v. operating costs for steel producers in different market scenarios.
SCRAP, CAST IRON, HBI MARKET
— Metallized products market evolution.in the CIS
— Scrap v. cast iron in the Russian domestic market: cost of steel – EAF v. BOF. Scrap market development prospects following the decline in 2025.
— Central Asia's ferrous scrap metal market
— Strategies of Russian commercial pig iron producers under tightening restrictions in regional markets – quotas, duties, bans
FERROALLOYS MARKET
— Key changes and events in the global ferroalloys market
— Review of Russia's ferroalloys market: Status and outlook
— Current state of the ferroalloys market in Kazakhstan. Export flows diversification
— Tariff policy impact on the global ferroalloys trade. Changes in trade flows
— Production of ferroalloys in India. Global trade development prospects and the growing domestic demand.
— Ferromolybdenum/ferrovanadium market situation: Key changes and price dynamics
— Noble ferroalloys global market: Status, growth factors and Russia's strategic positions
The conference is annually attended by more than 200 delegates — top managers of metallurgical and raw materials companies in Russia and CIS countries, owners of rolling stock.
