Although the metallurgical silicon metal price dropped recently, the chemical silicon metal market still firmed with tight supply of spot materials.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Silicon manganese 6014 in Guangxi of China remained flat. It seems that power readjustment during July and December still faied to stimulate alloy producers to resume production.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] As Chinese steelmakers began to new round of purchasing, it seems that silicon manganese 6517 in Yunnan areas failed to show change.

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

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese moly concentrates price rose to RMB-/mtu by acceptance.

The US Department of Commerce found that Venezuelan companies had been selling an additive used in steel production at unfairly low prices in the US in a move that clears the way for countervailing duties while also finding that Russian shippers had not dumped...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China exported -mt FeMo in June, 2014, -times higher than May (-mt), but there was zero export last June.

On July18th, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (MIIT) announced the first list of enterprises with backward production capacity to be eliminated in 2014.