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Molybdenum Outlook
July 2008 Issue
Slow supply, resilient demand, high prices

At a time when many commodities have seen wild volatility, molybdenum prices have continued to show resilience.  True, there have been no notable rallies for 18 months, and no major upswing since 2004-5.  But the trend has been consistently upward since January 2006, and barring something very untoward the average for this year will be the highest on record.

Molybdenum Outlook


The Outlook for Molybdenum
provides an in-depth review of the current molybdenum market, addressing the major issues facing producers, traders and consumers in the molybdenum business. The report analyses the historical context, tracking recent developments in supply and demand and mapping out the way forward. Supply and demand is broken down by region and sector, and  looks at the economic outlook and production statistics in stainless steel and alloy steel production.

The Outlook for Molybdenum answers the key questions currently facing the Molybdenum market:
  • Demand growth – still on the fast track?
  • How much new supply potential is out there?
  • When will the new capacity come on stream?
  • What is China’s future role?
  • Supply/demand balances - how long will they stay lean?
  • What do production costs tell us about long run prices
  • Roaster balances – is a new bottleneck on the way?
The service provides:
  • Insight into the shifting structure of molybdenum supply
  • Production data for every western world mine, going back to 1992 and forward to 2015
  • Profiles of all western world mines and roasters
  • Production costs at primary producers
  • Roaster capacities
  • Analysis of China’s role in supplying the international market
  • Reviews of all molybdenum’s end-use markets, with particular focus on stainless steel
  • Developments in rhenium, whose main source is the molybdenum industry
Contact
For more information, please contact:
 
Richard Pell
Steel Sales Manager
tel: +44 20 7903 2166
email: richard.pell@crugroup.com

Molybdenum Outlook







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