Chinese calcium silicon market kept weak recently, and ex-work price of calcium silicon 30# has dropped to RMB10400-10500/mt while calcium silicon 28# has also decreased to RMB10100-10300/mt.

Professor Zhang Jianping of engineering from Maanshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. made a splendid speech on calcium wire technology and market demand on the conference.

Several steel mills in China released their purchase price of SiMn in July and overall price increased a little.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeW price kept steady, as steel mills purchased normal volumes.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese W concentrates was offered at RMB-/mt by acceptance.

ne of the major reasons was the downturn production of steel mills. It was learned that Posco, Jisco and some other steel mills had already planned to overhaul.

Since 2014， the exports of high carbon ferrochrome was still pretty weak. For low carbon ferrochrome, its exports volume also presented a downturn trend in recent years.

China, as the main silicon exporting country in the world, has large impact on the global market to some extent. The silicon materials have been in tight supply since May, which also drew the price up in the world besides in China.