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The largest of these sectors include plating (8.3% of total primary nickel consumption), super alloys and other nickel alloys (4.2% and 7.2% respectively), as well as other alloy steels and a variety of chemical applications – including batteries.

These sectors generally favour – or, indeed, are critically dependent on – high-grade material such as nickel powder, pellets, briquettes, and cathode. Intuitively, given the lack of their reliance on ferro-nickel or NPI, one might assume these sectors to be relatively insulated from the effects of the Indonesian nickel ban, but in fact the opposite may be true, says Thomas Höhne-Sparborth, Roskill’s senior nickel analyst.

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