n May, 2014, China exported 1,080tons chromium metal, which rose by 529% month on month and 53% year on year, accounting for nearly half the total of the first five months.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Overseas moly oxide price dropped to USD-/lbMo before summer vacations.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeMo offer dropped to RMB-/mt by acceptance.

tight supply of silicon metal existed even until the end of June 2014 in China. Producers said their businesses were hot recently and it was very hard to procure spot silicon metal for export order due to quite tight supply.

Tight Supply of Silicon Metal Lingered in Sichuan

Foreign FeSi Buyers Struggled to Bring down Purchase Price

According to the investigation of www.ferro-alloys.com, current production cost (including tax) of EMM is about RMB 12300/mt (USD1984/m) in China.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China exported -mt vanadium pent oxide in May,2014, up -% compared with last May (-mt) and -% from April (-mt).