Sweden Consumer Price

The second way of attempting to estimate the extent to which consumers value organic attributes, in the sense of being willing to pay a price premium, is simply to ask them. Wier and Calverley (2002) report on a range of such studies and a synthesis of these results for the studies carried out in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the UK, are presented in Table 6.9. 

Ferrochromium is an alloy of iron and chromium. More than 80% of all chromite ore is consumed in manufacturing this alloy. It is mainly used as the chromium source for the manufacture of stainless steels and other chromium steels. HC ferrochromium with high carbon content (5-6%) is manufactured in electric furnaces with coke as the reducing agent. The process has a high energy consumption, 4000 kWh per tonne of chromium metal. Plants for ferrochromium production have therefore been located in areas with low energy prices. This was one reason why Sweden, without its own chromium deposits, was a pioneer country in this field and in the production of stainless steels. 

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