Si metal prices continued to keep stable and Metallurgical Si metal prices stopped declining in late August in China. Factories were dealing with previous orders. Chemical Si metal prices remained firm. It was benefited from better organosilicon trade.

According to statistic of Korea Customs, S.Korea imported 12,902 tons of silicon metal in July 2014, slightly up M-O-M and up by 30.8% Y-O-Y. The materials were mainly imported from China, Norway and South Africa with import volumes respectively at 10679 tons,...

According to the statistics of US International Trade Commission, America imported 14319 mt of silicon metal in June, 2014, up by 10.2% M-O-M. The materials were mainly imported from Brazil (6334mt), South Africa (2110mt), Australia (1368mt), Canada (1763mt), ...

Japan Imports of FeSi Hit New High in June 2014

August, Chinese silicon metal 553# continued to drop with exporters offering disordered prices.

In the third ten-day of July, Chinese silicon metal market differed with 553# price dropping while chemical grade silicon slightly rising. The capability utilization of the factories was unchanged and spot materials were still difficult to inqury. Orders were ...

Chinese calcium silicon market kept stable in the third ten-day of July with no improvement for transactions and demand.

With Shaogang Group being the first steel mill to launch bids for August ferrosilicon in China, this week much focused Shagang Group and HBIS both released August purchase plans for ferroalloys including ferrosilicon. Shagang Group would purchase a total of 5,...