2025 Annual Conference

Autlán

is a Mexican company engaged in several markets of MANGANESE and ENERGY, among other industrial sectors. The company was founded in 1953 and has been recognized as a reliable supplier because of its high-quality products and commercial service.

Regarding manganese, Autlán is the largest producer of manganese ferroalloys in the Americas, the most important producer of manganese ore in North and Central America and one of the few producers of Alkaline EMD in the western world.

Autlán is focused on fulfilling the manganese needs from the steel industry as well as the specialized manganese requirements from the alkakine & dry battery, ceramic and micronutrient producers. The company owns three manganese mining units and three ferroalloy plants in Mexico, as well as an EMD plant in Spain.

Ore & Metal Company Limited

is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Assore Group, providing sales, marketing and logistics services. Our expertise, high-quality products, on-the-ground presence, and relationships have distinguished us from the competion for over 90 years.

We are an agile team with a global footprint. We have the best-in-class marketing offices in locations worldwide such as North America, Europe, Africa, India, and Asia.

Over the past decade, we have strenghthened our position through the strategic acquisitions of our agency partners. This collaboration has enabled us to establish a robust on-the-ground presence in global markets. Together, we offer comprehensive and integrated services within the mining sector including marketing, selling commodities, managing consignments, and providing logistics and shipping solutions covering rail, road, port, and ocean freight. We also handle commodities' storage, processing, and delivery to meet our customers' specifications and quality requirements.

Transalloys

is a well-recognized supplier of siliconmanganese and medium carbon ferromanganese globally, and the only siliconmanganese producer in South Africa. The production plant is situated 14 km west of eMalahleni (Witbank) and approximately 90 km east of Pretoria, in the Mpumalanga Province. Manganese ore used in the production process comes from the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, which is known to contain 75% of the world’s identified manganese ore reserves.

The company was acquired in 2007,  and as a result of the concerted effort by the Transalloys’ management team and the employees, the productivity and output of the plant were increased by 50% without the addition of any additional smelting capacity. The plant has the capacity to produce approximately 180 000 tonnes of manganese ferroalloys per annum. 

The plant itself dates back to the mid-1960’s when the first two furnaces were built, with three more furnaces being added over the following three decades. Currently, there are 5 submerged arc furnaces, with capacity ranging between 22 and 48 MVA. An UHT oxygen blown converter was added in Q3 of 2022. MCFeMn is produced on a campaign basis, with one of the SiMn furnaces  periodically converted to HCFeMn production, which serves as feedstock to the converter for conversion to MCFeMn. 

The standard grade siliconmanganese contains a minimum of 16.5% of silicon, 65 to 67% of manganese and a maximum of 2% carbon. Medium carbon ferromanganese contains a minimum of 80 % manganese, less than 1.5 % carbon and less than 1.0 % silicon.

Transalloys is a sponsor the IMnI 2024 Annual Conference which will take place in Tokyo, Japan.

Tshipi é Ntle Manganese Mining Proprietary Limited

is an independently operated and managed, black empowered manganese ore producer. Tshipi é Ntle means “beautiful steel” in the local Tswana language.

Tshipi is not only the largest single manganese mine and exporter from South Africa but is also one of the five largest manganese ore exporters globally.

Based in the Kalahari Manganese Field (KMF), the largest manganese-bearing geological formation in the world, Tshipi Borwa Mine is a shallow open-cast operation developed on a large and homogenous ore body.

South32

South32 is a globally diversified mining and metals company. We produce commodities including bauxite, alumina, aluminium, copper, silver, lead, zinc, nickel and manganese from our operations in Australia, Southern Africa and South America.

With a focus on growing our base metals exposure, we also have a development project Hermosa in North America and several partnerships with junior explorers around the world.

World Metals & Alloys FZC (WMA)

Established in 2006 in the United Arab Emirates in the most vibrant business destination is an ISO certified trading house of various ferro alloys, minerals, metals, ores, scraps, coal, coke, refractories, and other steel raw materials.

WMA is a market leader and a preferred source for its customers.