9-th International Needle Coke and the Application Market Summit
Background
The needle coke industry is faced with both opportunities and challenges brought about by a complex and volatile market environment in 2018. In July, China's needle coke prices have risen by 40-60 percent from earlier this year. Prices of imported petroleum-based needle coke have hiked 37 percent, and low-price resources can nowhere to be found on the market.
Since 2017, the continued hefty profits of needle coke products have prompted many from both inside and outside the industry to tap this lucrative market. According to the incomplete statistics from ICC News, China's newly added needle coke capacities have reached up to 750,000 tons as of this August. However, it won't have an impact on the market in 2018. According to ICC News projection, China’s total needle coke supply is estimated at 460,000 tons in 2018 and the output of domestic needle coke at 270,000 tons, 60 percent of which will go to the graphite electrode market. A strong needle coke price is not independent of the aid of downstream market.
China's electric furnace steel industry has seen rapid growth in 2018, with production for this year expected to exceed 100 million tons. Nearly 40 new electric arc furnaces have been built. Increased electric steel capacities will inject fresh energy to China's graphite electrode market. China has officially announced a designed capacity of 50.8 million tons of new electric furnaces to serve as replacement. ICC News estimates China's electric steel output will reach 130 million tons by 2020, and there will be 350,000 tons of new demand for graphite electrode in the world during 2018-2020.
Overseas market has been just as strong. The ongoing short-route electric arc furnace projects recorded 36.76 million tons of capacity in 2017. The planned new arc furnaces in 2018-2019 period post 883.5 million tons of capacity (mainly located in India, Iran, Russia, Indonesia, Algeria, etc).
The reduction in China's steel exports and increase in overseas steel production in 2018 have provided strong support for graphite electrodes in markets such as India, Japan and the United States, etc. As overseas contracts are often long-term contracts, prices of 600mm UHP graphite electrode overall have been steady at 10,000-14,500 USD/ton in 2018 and are still estimated to post a 15 percent of rise in 2019.
On the anode material front, needle coke demand from China's lithium battery anode materials market reached 140,000 tons in 2017. In 2018, spurred by new subsidy policies, demand for high-grade needle coke on the lithium battery anode material market will keep growing accordingly. Demand for needle coke for anode materials is expected to rise 30 percent in China. According to China's NEV development blueprint, needle coke demand from lithium battery anode materials market is expected to reach 380,000 tons in China by 2025.
In face of rising needle coke price and downstream lithium battery makers' demand for lower prices, how to deal with supply deficiency of needle coke, find needle coke products with best price/performance ratio, and ect., have been problems anode material producers must consider and face right now.
ICC News invites you to meet in the beautiful city of Hangzhou from October 30 to November 1, 2018, to discuss topics related to the industry chain of needle coke and its application markets and to seek common development.
Topics
Needle coke market and application(2018/10/31) From 9:00-17:00
Firstly Talk：Need Coke
1. Global needle coke market supply pattern
2. Development and supply-demand change of China needle coke market
3.Process in the utilization of new needle coke capacity in China and its impact
4. Needle coke technology bottleneck and breakthrough in China
5. Discussion on Japanese needle coke technology
Secondly Talk：Graphite Electrode
6. Technological process and technical improvement in China's graphite electrode production
7.Challenges and opportunities Chinese graphite electrode enterprises face under the new norm of environmental protection
8. Development and changing trend of India electric steel and graphite electrode markets
9. Graphite electrode market demand in European and American and the change
10. Development of electric steel and graphite electrode demand in the Middle East
11. Evaluation of the influence of China graphite electrode price fluctuation on international graphite electrode price
Thirdly Talk：Anode Materials
12.Development and future trend of lithium battery anode materials in China
13. Specific demand for needle coke from lithium battery anode materials
14. Lithium battery anode material enterprises' solution to high price and supply deficiency of needle coke products
Electric furnace steel technology and market (2018/11/01) From 9:00-17:00
Firstly Talk：EAF Market
1. China steel industry performance forecast for 2019
2. Potential impact of environmental policies on the steel market in 2019
3. Growth potential of China's electric steel capacity in 2019
4. Overseas electric steel production expansion
5. Influence of electric steel development on iron ore and coke markets
Secondly Talk：Raw Material of Electric Furnace Steel
6. Can China scrap supply meet the development needs of electric furnace steel?
7. Introduction of electric steel industry chain in various regions (Sichuan, Fujian and Yangtze River Delta)
8. Progress in scrap steel futures
9. Graphite electrode demand change on China's electric steel market
10. Supply-demand status and future demand of global graphite electrode market
Thirdly Talk：Technology of Electric Furnace Steel
11. New electric furnace steelmaking technologies at home and abroad
12. Energy conservation, consumption reduction and cost control in electric steelmaking
Date: October 30 -November 1, 2018 (October 30: Sign-in, 9:00-21:00)
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