Serious reduction of production remained in some main production regions and April output of FeSi was expected to decline in China.

FeSi producers were in deficit and overall operation rate kept low in some main production regions, which indicated the output would be affected.

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

Latest Statistics Norway showed Norway exported 22,200 mt of FeSi in March of 2014, slightly down 0.4% from 22,296 mt of February of 2014

As last week April mainstream purchase price of FeSi72# was determined at RMB.../mt(USD.../mt,export duty not included),delivered tax-inclusive price by acceptance, down by RMB.../mt(USD32-48/mt) from March purchase price

[Ferro-alloys.com] Generally FeSi market kept stable in China at present, but some ferrosilicon producers planned to raise their quotations. As Ferro-alloys.com editors learned, recently one large Inner Mongolian producer had problem with electricity supply...

[Ferro-alloys.com] At present export market of Chinese ferrosilicon remained depressed. Although Chinese ferrosilicon dealers had some foreign inquiries, their offers were generally rejected by foreign buyers. This was mainly that smuggled Chinese ferrosilicon...

Chinese ferrosilicon market kept silent in mid-April with domestic ex-work price stable despite of some producers decreasing the offers slightly for inactive transactions.