In the second ten days of September, Chinese silicon metal market slowed rising steps, though the producers still insist on their offers. At present, price of off –grade silicon metal 553# was at RMB12400-12500/mt (Delivered to Kunming warehouse). Most of the...

According to September 12th news posted on the official website of Brazil-based ferroalloy producer-Ferbasa, European steel market remained sluggish, although there was a slight improvement in steel market by the end of August 2014. An upturn trend was seen in...

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.