In 2025, the overall stainless steel market exhibited a wide-range fluctuating pattern. In the first half of 2025, driven by rising prices of raw materials such as nickel pig iron and ferrochrome, along with favorable macro policies, prices climbed upward. Subsequently, due to US tariff hikes, weakening demand, and high inventory levels, prices declined rapidly. Entering the second half of the year, the market trend remained unsatisfactory, with the supply-demand imbalance persisting. The main contracts continuously broke through support levels, and low-range fluctuations with minor rebounds became normalized. Even by year-end, the pressure on prices and transactions had not significantly improved. In 2026, new production capacities from PT GLORY METAL INDONESIA and Hangzhou Iron&Steel Group Company stainless steel projects will commence operation and ramp up output, increasing supply. The low-profit structure of stainless steel is likely to continue, but this also provides some demand-side benefits for upstream alloy raw materials.

The global "carbon peaking and neutrality" transition has entered a critical period. Cobalt and lithium, as core strategic resources for power batteries and energy storage systems, are facing a dual critical period of "demand explosion and structural reshaping". In 2025, with the continuous increase in new energy vehicle penetration rate and the explosive growth of the energy storage market, the lithium market has bottomed out and rebounded, returning to the 100,000 Yuan mark. It is expected that from 2026 to 2027, with the tightening of supply and demand, the market will enter a new phase of tight balance.

【Conference Purpose】FerroAlloyNet 29th International Chrome & Nickel & Stainless Steel & New Energy Industry Conference adopts the theme "A Splendid Beijing, Renewed Chrome-Nickel". It focuses on the new layout of resources in the chrome-nickel-stainless steel-new energy industry, explores emerging industry trends, and conducts in-depth discussions on the current industry status as well as key and challenging issues in development. The conference aims to build a cooperation platform for the chrome-nickel-stainless steel-new energy industry, providing new opportunities for enterprise development and contributing to breakthroughs in corporate collaboration, thereby promoting the healthy development of the industrial chain through collective efforts.

【Conference Products】 This conference will cover industry products including chrome ore, ferrochrome, silicon chromium, chromium salts, chrome metal, nickel ore, nickel pig iron, pure nickel, nickel matte, nickel salt, MHP, lithium ore, lithium salt, cobalt salt, etc. At that time, we will invite numerous industry representatives to gather in Beijing, making you achieve seamless communication and exchange between upstream and downstream, with deep dialogue, establish deep cooperation, and jointly explore the future development trends of the industry.

【Conference Services】FerroAlloyNet, as a 360° ferroalloy industry data expert and over 23-year industry information service provider, has successfully held more than 140 conferences, with a total of more than 40,000 participants! This conference will set up links such as "trade matching + series negotiation + corporate display + focus discussion + market analysis + expert prediction + business activities". At the conference venue, we will introduce clients to you, facilitate negotiations, and promote cooperation intentions. At the same time, we will organize post conference business activities to enhance industry exchanges, making you not only hear industry experts' analysis and predictions, but also expand cooperation space and gain more cooperation orders. Service first, not limited to the conference venue, we are always here!

【Conference Scale】 At this conference, we will invite enterprises in the global industry chain of chrome, nickel, stainless steel and new energy, from China, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, Türkiye, Zimbabwe, India, Pakistan, Oman, Albania, Russia, Philippines, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Iran, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Cote d'Ivoire, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Guatemala, Argentina, Australia, United States, Canada, Chile, Brazil, etc., including mine owners, raw materials and auxiliary materials suppliers, manufacturers, traders, steel mills, alloy equipment suppliers, logistics warehousing companies, research institutions, etc. Over 700 global chrome, nickel, stainless steel and new energy delegates come together in Beijing to focus on new industrial layouts and explore new trends in the industry!