[Ferro-Alloys.com]China imported 516025 tonnes of chrome ores in Nov 2014, down 22.6% over the previous month. Due to the sluggish market of its downstream, there were huge declines in the import volumes of chrome ore for every month since Mar 2014 expect June...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China imported 516025 tonnes of chrome ores in Nov 2014, down 22.6% over the previous month. Due to the sluggish market of its downstream, there were huge declines in the import volumes of chrome ore for every month since Mar 2014 expect June...

Great Losses Caused More FeSi Producers to Reduce or Halt Operation in China (December1st-December5th)

In the US, Si553# price was 145-147 cents/lb. European Si 553# price were EUR 2270-2350/mt, up by EUR 40-50/mt.

Hopes a floor in the iron ore price had been reached earlier this week were dashed overnight as the commodity sunk to a new five-year low.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Last Thursday, both TISCO and Tsingshan Group released their purchasing prices of high-carbon Ferrochrome for December, increasing by RMB50/50MT and RMB100/50MT respectively. Each of the companies will purchase 60k tonnes of high carbon Ferr...

[Ferro-Alloy.com]Most ferrochrome producers have resumed their production since Nov 13, but the monthly output would be cut down. The first month would see a cut of 50k tonnes in production, which would decrease a purchase of 120k tonnes of chrome ore. At the ...

Tight Supply Increased the Potentiality of Price Hike [Ferro-Alloys.com]Last Thursday, the ferrochrome plants resumed their production after the shutdown over the APEC, which would shorten the supply of high-carbon ferrochrome in short term, adding that the...