[ferro-alloys.com] Today, vanadium market is relatively quiet. On the one hand, the market trading activity has reduced due to the coming of Labour Day. On the other hand, the market is on a downward trend and the buyer is cautious to buy goods. For the main products of vanadium series, prices of vanadium pentoxide, ammonium vanadate and vanadium-aluminium alloy slipped slightly; prices of ferrovanadium, vanadium-aluminium alloy and nitrided ferrovanadium slipped with a larger extent.

Offers of vanadium products today: vanadium pentoxide flake 98% 187,000 to 200,000 rmb/mt (cash-acceptance); vanadium pentoxide powder 98% 187,000 to 192,000 rmb/mt (including VAT); ammonium metavanadate 98% 177,000 to 180,000 rmb/mt (including VAT);ferrovanadium 50% 193,000 to 200,000 rmb/mt (cash-acceptance); ferrovanadium 80% 308,800 to 320,000 rmb/mt (cash-acceptance); nitrided ferrovanadium V45N10 187,000 to 189,000 rmb/mt(acceptance);vanadium-aluminium alloy AlV55 240,000 to 250,000 rmb/mt (Physical weight, including VAT).  

 “The raw material is not easy to buy, vanadium plants in many places are shutdown, but the prices are a little weaker recently, so I am no hurry to purchase the raw material, but the situation of environmental protection this year is severe, it is expected that the dropping space in the following market won't big”, a vanadium-aluminium alloy plant said.

• [Editor:Wang Linyan]