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Metal Bulletin Events: Our most crucial time during this last year
has been the economic crisis that we all know about.
Sometimes the price was so low that
that we couldn't compete. So that was a big challenge.
There is a lot of pressure on prices and
very big demand.
It has been the most challenging times in European markets,
so the supply to European countries has gone down.
And overall there is a lot of competition, but the margins
have reduced a lot. This year seems to be,
for me, it's worse than 2012.
The market conditions is not stable, and the price sometimes goes up very quickly and went
down really quickly
The biggest challenge was to survive.
I get the feeling that the worst is behind us
Certainly, over the past few years, after the economic crisis,
we've had a lot of uncertainty and we hope that that
uncertainty, and we hope that that uncertainty dissipates, and that we return to normal in terms of
regular metals demand.
I think that the
the world economy is picking up but very slowly and we continue to grow very
slowly
I think we would see the
in demand, and that will create good opportunity for growth in future.
The general consensus is that there's a lot of optimism out
there
customers are buying more material, and again
very interested in concluding contracts.
So we feel very positive about the near-term
outcome. What's next for the ferro-alloys industry? Join us for the next Metal Bulletin Event.