Summer Season Of Mineral Price Hikes

This article takes a closer look at the recent hikes in prices across the entire raw materials sector with comments from raw materials producers, grim news from China's Sischuan province, which suffered a huge earthquake recently with transportation links throughout the province severely disrupted, all adding to costs. In the EU and USA, June witnessed a raft of mineral price increases, and energy surcharges, across many sectors, driven by the increasing costs of energy, freight and raw materials.