Private investment company Menar, which is awaiting Competition Commission approval following its bid for the large Metalloys ferromanganese facility in Meyerton, is looking to restart at least two of the four furnaces on the site of what was once the world’s largest ferromanganese production facility before being shut in 2020. Bringing two furnaces back online would provide the base for the production of 500 000 t/y of ferromanganese and require a feed of one-million tonnes of manganese ore from South African mines.