In mid August 2014 FeSi market ran smoothly in China, with comparatively stable operation rate. In terms of main production regions, shortage of nickel ore supply forced some Inner Mongolia-based ferronickel producers to upgrade for production of ferrosilicon....
This week bids of ferrosilicon for August delivery were over in China. Ferrosilicon producers had tight supply of FeSi75# and the overall demand kept stable. Low Al and high purity ferrosilicon producers kept normal production in China.
Affected by steady demand and loss status, the overall operation rate kept low in ferrosilicon industry, which was around 60%. Only some large ferrosilicon producers could maintain 80% or even higher. Ningxing Hui region ranked top three in terms of capacity ...