Overall economic situation affected the market of commodities. Since entering 2012, steel mills underperformed. Issues such as closing down outdated facilities became dire needs for the industry. As cored wires had became an irreplaceable raw materials for st...

Nearly all of Indian imported SILICON BARIUM is sourced from China. In the beginning of August, the ferro silicon barium inoculant (size 2-6mm, 90% min) was USD1530-1540/mt compared to USD1530-1550/mt in the beginning of July and USD1520-1530/mt in the beginni...

Nearly all of the Indian imported calcium silicon is sourced from China. In July, 2015, the imported price of calcium silicon price maintained stable at USD1750-1770/mt CIF. However, there were some transactions at USD1,660-1,680/mt CIF.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeV was offered at RMB61,000-62,000/mt by acceptance. Steel mill’s tenders ended, but the transactions got worse. The transaction price was confirmed to drop to RMB57,000/mt by acceptance.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Japan total exports of silicon metal 763167kg from January to June, up by 30.81 % Y-O-Y, Japan exported 220900kg in June, up by 51.93% Y-O-Y, Japan's major export countries were Poland, China Taiwan and Italy, these countries have increased ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]European silicon manganese prices were heard lower as oversupply saw aggressive offers into tenders, sources said.

Silicon Metal = In the Chinese domestic market, the price of low-grade products as a whole is down by CNY400 - CNY900 per ton from the end of June. This is because, in addition to the price being down by decreased production cost owing to a full-scale applicat...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]A large EMM enterprise in Ningxia shows that, at present, it has completely get rid of difficulties in development process. And now, its EMM products’ demand exceeds supply. Ningxia Tianyuan Manganese Industry Co., Ltd., as the world's larg...