Malaysia and India have unique competitive advantages in manganese alloy production that other Asian alloy producers are unable to match, according to panelists at Fastmarkets' Asian Ferro-alloys conference in Hong Kong on Monday March 11.
Manganese alloy production in the two countries has developed rapidly over the last 10 years, Aloys D'Harambure, executive director of the International Manganese Institute, said as he moderated the panel. Other potential significant producers, Indonesia and Vietnam, do not have such competitive...