This week bids of ferrosilicon for August delivery were over in China. Ferrosilicon producers had tight supply of FeSi75# and the overall demand kept stable. Low Al and high purity ferrosilicon producers kept normal production in China.

In mid August, calcium silicon market in China was stable with inactive transactions. At present, about 10 sets with capability at 30000KVA or above were in normal operation. On Jul 28th, Qinghai Baitong started its 30000KVA furnace to produce calcium silicon,...

Since July 2014, metallurgical grade Si metal prices had declined much and became basically stable in mid August 2014 in China. Editor of www.ferro-alloys.com made an analysis of silicon metal price changes in terms of supply and demand.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese APT was offered at RMB-/mt .

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese W concentrates was offered at RMB-/mt.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The movement tendency of silicon manganese in China already set clear in the wake of August tender of steelmakers.

It was acknowledged that the high carbon ferrochrome operating rate totally declined in Chinese main producing areas, like Shanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Huann Province. The main reason was the decreasing sales price and the firm raw materials price as well as t...

Since 2013, the high grade nickel ores price basically kept the weak tread, which decreased to the pretty low level in Q2 of 2013. However, supported by the Indonesian policy, the high grade nickel ores price started to rebound since early of 2014. The tread o...