Metal Expert invites market participants to the two-day conference 5th MENA Billet & Steelmaking Raw Materials which to be held in Marrakech, Morocco on April 12-13, 2018.
Agenda
Billets:
- New opportunities for billet suppliers amid growing Algerian market
- Prospects of raw materials import in Algeria: scrap and iron ore as alternative to billet
- Will Egypt remain sustainable billet consumer? Changes in energy policy and its influence on local steel producers
- Iranian billet import to Morocco and Tunisia as key factor of growing competition
- Prospects of long products consumption in North Africa
- Iran as billet source at competitive prices
- Export from the CIS – delivery growth opportunities amid DMKD restart
- New billet suppliers in the region – GCC countries
- Growth of billet consumption in SE Asian countries amid export reduction from China – an alternative destination for key exporters
Raw Materials:
- Electrodes consumption optimization by mini-mills – how to reduce dependence on supplies in a deficit market
- Alternative suppliers of electrodes – Indian case
- Prospects of DR-pellets consumption in the region amid growing steel production capacity
- Scrap consumption peculiarities in the region
NEW! Ferroalloys
- Growth in ferroalloys demand in GCC and North Africa due to increased steel production
- Possibilities to increase supplies of Ukrainian and Egyptian FeSi to MENA markets due to anti-dumping investigation in the EU
- Competition between suppliers of Mn alloys (from Ukraine, India and Malaysia) in MENA markets
- Opportunities for suppliers in Iran’s ferroalloys market
