In mid September, ferrosilicon producers had normal operation in China, with some furnaces newly into operation in China’s Ningxia Hui region. Most producers said they had few or none spot materials, except that a small number of larger enterprises had some s...

Exports of Norway FeSi Rose 31.4% in August 2014

According to statistic of Korea Customs, S.Korea imported 12,551 tons of silicon metal in August 2014, slightly down M-O-M and up by 57.1% Y-O-Y. The materials were mainly imported from China, Norway and Brazil with import volumes respectively at 10837 tons, 6...

Although quite a few large steel mills had slightly raised their purchase prices of ferrosilicon for September delivery, the ferrosilicon producers were cautious about their offers. The waste heat power generation projects were in hot construction among the fe...

According to the statistics of US International Trade Commission, America imported 18950 mt of silicon metal in July 2014, up by 32.3% M-O-M. The materials were mainly imported from Brazil (8936mt), South Africa (4077mt), Australia (1992mt), Canada (1546mt), a...

In September, calcium silicon price in China kept steady. There were no stocks in most factories.

In July, 2014, Russian ferrosilicon production from the six producers was 55200 tons. In Jan-July, the total ferrosilicon production was 476.7 thousand tons, up by 23.5% Y-O-Y. Production from Chemk and Mechel Group decreased by over 10% through Jan-July.

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