MFC is situated in Middelburg, Mpumalanga and was established in 1964 as a Low Carbon Ferrochrome production facility. Charge chrome was first produced on this site in 1974 by Middelburg Steel and Alloys (Pty) Ltd, which was acquired by Samancor in 1991, making it one of only a few alloy plants in the world able to produce both charge chrome and low carbon ferrochrome, which it stopped producing in 2015. It currently produces charge chrome from two Submerged-Arc Furnaces (SAF’s), two Direct-Current (DC) Furnaces, a Pelletising and Sintering plant (PSP) and a metal recovery plant.