Commercial banks should set mortgage rates at "reasonable" levels and grant housing loans more quickly, especially for first time buyers, the People's Bank of China said in an online statement on Tuesday.

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.

The Troubles About FeSi as Roundabout Products Come up to Surface

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.

In May 14-16, 2014, Mr. JacobJ.Steinmo, the engineer manager of Finnfjord will attend 11th China Ferro-Alloys Intl Conference. He has presented in the conference each year during the past 10 years and highly appraises the conference. In this year, he also hope...

Roundabout Ferro-silicon Gets Scarce in Vietnam

Latest statistics showed output of FeSi was 449.4 thousand tons in China in March, moderately up 0.79% from March of 2013.