Russia produced 4.216 billion square metres of corrugated-paper and paperboard boxes in the first half of 2026, down 1.6% year on year. Excess capacity, weaker goods demand and falling prices are expected to keep the industry stagnant or push output down by as much as 3% through year-end.
Kazakh exporters are reducing wheat prices and accelerating shipments before an anticipated increase in railway charges after September 10. Cheaper Russian wheat and cautious importer demand are adding pressure, while higher Caspian freight costs are complicating sales to Iran.
Minas Gerais is positioning charcoal-based pig iron as an immediately available route to lower-emission steelmaking. Brazil exported 4.06 million tonnes of pig iron in 2025, with the United States taking about 83% of the total, according to Sindifer data cited by SEGS.
Brazilian growers spent R$15.4 billion on crop-protection products for the 2025/26 second maize crop, according to Globo Rural. The reported 13% increase from the previous season points to stronger demand from pesticide manufacturers, distributors and agricultural retailers.
Bayer plans to introduce 10 blockbuster agricultural products over the next 10 years, each with sales potential above €500 million. Its pipeline spans short-stature corn, multi-herbicide-tolerant soybeans, new crop-protection molecules, hybrid wheat and oilseeds for sustainable aviation fuel.
Cocoa prices are rising again as the market assesses risks to African harvests. The renewed tension is pushing quotations toward their highest levels of recent months and increasing uncertainty for processors and confectionery buyers.
Iron ore prices fell more than 1% in China as higher coking-coal costs pressured steel mill margins. Rising inventories and recovering shipments also reinforced expectations of ample supply.
Germany’s bicycle industry generated €25.2 billion in 2025, around 7% less than a year earlier, while employment fell about 3% to 74,300. Retail revenue dropped 10% as excess inventories, discounting and weaker consumer spending continued to weigh on the post-pandemic market.
Eneva agreed to transfer the coal-fired Itaqui power plant in a transaction with Diamante involving a company in Pecém and a R$400 million payment to Eneva. The deal shifts Eneva’s portfolio toward its LNG project in Ceará.
Morocco imported more than 12,000 tonnes of fresh table potatoes between July 2025 and June 2026, a record volume driven by flood damage in the northern Loukkos basin. The Netherlands, France and Belgium supplied the shipments at a time of heavy European oversupply and near-zero prices.
US restrictions on high-voltage grid equipment from China could tighten a transformer market that has recorded more than $22 billion in imports since 2025. Wood Mackenzie estimates a 15% US power-transformer deficit in 2026, with data centers particularly exposed to longer delivery times.
Andalusia has asked Spain’s Agriculture Ministry to seek an EU suspension of inward processing for olive oil. The regional government says growing duty-free inflows from Tunisia are distorting competition while Spanish prices fall and production costs rise.
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