tight supply of silicon metal existed even until the end of June 2014 in China. Producers said their businesses were hot recently and it was very hard to procure spot silicon metal for export order due to quite tight supply.

Tight Supply of Silicon Metal Lingered in Sichuan

Foreign FeSi Buyers Struggled to Bring down Purchase Price

According to the investigation of www.ferro-alloys.com, current production cost (including tax) of EMM is about RMB 12300/mt (USD1984/m) in China.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China exported -mt vanadium pent oxide in May,2014, up -% compared with last May (-mt) and -% from April (-mt).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China exported -mt FeV in May,2014, up -% compared with last May (-mt) and -% from April (-mt).

From May to June, the ferrochrome production was stable. And according to some producers, the large production would not be changed much in July. So the demand for chrome ores

According to latest data o the General Administration of Customs, China exported 27,029 mt of EMM