The Chinese total export volume was 71,866,000 tons from January to August, up by 26.5% year on year, while the output of crude steel was 543,020,000 tons, down by 2% year on year during the same period. Chinese iron and steel market obviously shrank in 2015. ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Since the National Day holiday, the magnesium metal market is difficult to improve, the upstream ferrosilicon market is entering the winter, October silicon and steel tender price generally fell about RMB300/ MT-RMB350/ MT,

[Ferro-Alloys.com]After the National Day holiday, this week the price of silicon metal continued to stabilize, supply and demand relationship to the old customers, the advent of the fourth quarter of the silicon metal market will become a watershed:

[Ferro-alloys.com] China’s ferrosilicon market remained stagnant this week. Due to the limited downstream demands, the domestic transactions showed a poor performance. At present, the mainstream price of ferrosilicon 75# in Northwest China is RMB 4,500 - 4,60...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In recent period, Chinese imported manganese ore spot market continued to maintain poor performance. Fierce competition make price of imported manganese ore in China become more subject to fluctuation accordance with performance of alloys.

Recently, ferroalloy industry has been faced with hard times for a long time, especially for EMM products. In this week, the market price of Electrolytic Manganese Flake 99.7% is about RMB9,300-9,400/mt, while merchants just made a deal with lower price. Many ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Weekly, nickel ore prices in ports held steady, low-grade 0.9-1.1 mainly quoted at 150-170yuan/wt, mid-grade 1.5 mainly traded at 240-260yuan/wt and high-grade mainly transacted at 430-450yuan/wt.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Weekly, encouraged by domestic supply cuts, ferronickel market presented a wave of rebound, low-grade 1.6-1.8 mainly quoted at 1770-1820yuan a tone, mid-grade 4-6 mainly traded at 780-790yuan/ni when 6-8 less traded at 770-790yuan/ni, high-gr...