In early June, silicon metal was still in tight supply on spot market. Spoken by one manufacturer, they kept producing based on the orders and the orders were signed until the late June. Meanwhile, there were no inventories at warehouses. Seen from the market...

According to the already released eradication plans of outdated industrial capacity, we could see furnaces of 12,500KVA would be weeded out in main ferrosilicon production regions and there were furnaces of 6,300KVA being weeded out in non major production reg...

[Ferro-alloys.com] Selenium dioxide (SeO2) is one of the major raw materials of EMM. According to the investigation of www.ferro-alloys.com recently, SeO2 market price continued

[Ferro-Alloys.com] recently, poor performance of silicon manganese 6014 in China gave rise to reduce spot resource since more producers chose to suspend operation temporarily. However, it seems that limit supply will not impact on silicon manganese market soon...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In recent period, manganese residual Mn32%prices in Yongzhou of Hunan fixed at RMB950-970/mt without tax while RMB940-960/mt in Qinzhou of Guangxi for Mn>30%.

According to the data from Japan Customs, it imported 12,661,615kg silicon metal from China in April.

In China, calcium silicon export market ran weakly and the transaction was not that active.

Affected by the weak LME nickel price and the poor operating rate of the ferronickel in China, the nickel ores spot price in Chinese market also declined slightly following the future price.