In India, most of silicon barium materials are imported from China. The mainstream imported price of Silicon Barium in first 10 days of September was as follows, about 100 tons of SiBa1-3# was at USD1700-1720/mt CIF, nearly the same as that in August.

Silicon manganese market for the week remained sluggish and transactions were at a low level owing to slow demand. In Raipur, silicon manganese 6014 is being offered INR57,000/MT according to sources,

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Ganzhou Tungsten Association issued its indication floor price of APT for September at RMB163,000/mt (USD26,721/mt, export duty excluded), but its real transaction price was RMB161,000-162,000/mt (USD26,393-26,557/mt, export duty excluded), a...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese vanadium pent oxide was offered at RMB69,000-70,000/mt (USD11,311-11,475/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance. Vanadium pent oxide supply was limited, so suppliers had small inventory pressure and insisted on high offer. At the sam...

At present, Chinese calcium silicon market demand has improved slightly, however, it hasn’t been reflected by the price. As the profit of PVC producers was limited, they didn’t want to purchase at a higher price.

The LME nickel price hit a three-month high on Monday at USD19,940/t in consequence of the Philippine ban of mines export.

Supply of FeSi Remained Tight at the Beginning of Mid September in China

Entering Middle of Sept., low carbon FeCr price in China basically kept stable while some sellers adjusted the trading price slightly according the market conditions in local area. Now the mainstream price was quoted as below: low carbon FeCr(C25) was quoted a...