{"id":448472,"date":"2026-03-24T09:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/03\/24\/per-il-ferrosilicio-ue-il-problema-del-caro-energia-che-con-la-guerra-in-iran-rischia-di-aggravarsi\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:35:40","slug":"high-energy-costs-the-problem-for-eu-ferrosilicon-with-the-iran-war-adding-further-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/03\/24\/high-energy-costs-the-problem-for-eu-ferrosilicon-with-the-iran-war-adding-further-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"High energy costs the problem for EU ferrosilicon, with the Iran war adding further pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Useful for producing stainless steel, for electrode coatings, and for the manufacture of components for solenoid valves and injectors, ferrosilicon<\/strong> is a widely used alloy of great importance to the industrial and technological sectors, yet its market is in crisis, and the blame is said to lie with China<\/strong>. Mass production and below-cost sales are said to be the subject of unfair competition damaging to “Made in the EU” products. This, at least, is what French MEP Mathilde Androu\u00ebt<\/strong> claims in her parliamentary question<\/a>, which finds both confirmations and denials<\/strong> within the European Commission. <\/p>\n

“The ferro alloys safeguard investigation showed that the sector, like many others, is facing
\nchallenges other than harmful trade practices, such as high energy costs<\/strong>,” Trade Commissioner Maros \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d<\/strong> said in his response. So, in this case at least, the finger should not be pointed at Beijing. It is true, he adds, that as far as ferrosilicon is concerned, “there was no increase in imports<\/strong>.” Therefore, even though the EU executive remains willing to support companies in the sector and \u201cexplore all possible options available under
\nthe trade defence instruments,\u201d in this specific case, “it is necessary to explore also other policy options<\/strong> to help EU silicon producers operate on a
\nsustainable basis.”<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

\u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d\u2019s response is from the last few days, but it refers to a situation reported at the end of January, that is, before the war in Iran broke out with all its repercussions on energy prices<\/a>. If the problem with European ferrosilicon was a matter of cost, it could be exacerbated in the wake of the price rises triggered by the Israeli and US conflict<\/a> in the Persian Gulf. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The alloy is used to produce stainless steel and high-tech components. \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d says the issue is not China or unfair competition. It is necessary to explore other support options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":448448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26430,25916,33392,33506,25744,25987,33394],"class_list":["post-448472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cina-en","tag-energia","tag-ferrosilicio","tag-industry-en","tag-maros-sefcovicat","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448473,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448472\/revisions\/448473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}