On April 28, Japan Aluminium Alloy Refiners Association announced the result of demand & supply for silicon metal and the result of production of secondary aluminium alloy products in March 2014 as well as in the fiscal year 2013.

Although Si price dropped, the real transaction was not that active on export market. According to one exporter, inquires for Si products increased recently

Compared with the tight supply in April, there were small amounts of silicon metal products on spot market in early May. Meanwhile, Si quotations kept firm due to low capacity utilization rate.

According to the data from China Customs, silicon metal export volume totally reached 184,378.750mt in Q1, 2014. Compared with the same period last year, Si export amount increased......

After extending its investigation into European polysilicon by six months late last year, China’s Ministry of Commerce has finally imposed anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports of polysilicon, a raw material used to make solar panels, from the Europ...

Platts assessed the spot price of 553-grade 98.5% silicon metal at $2,130-2,160/mt CIF Japan Thursday, narrowing from $2,120-2,200/mt CIF last week in thin trade ahead of Japanese public holidays over May 3-6.

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