[Ferro-Alloys.com] Since oversupply for steel market in China has yet to change in short term, operation rates for manganese alloys showed hard to pick up which led directly to flat demand on imported manganese ore market. Furthermore, manganese ore huge stock...

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to the statistics of Korea Customs, Korea¡¯s ferroalloy import volume was ...mt in Mar 2014, up by ...% M-O-M and up by ...% Y-O-Y. The import sources and volumes were as the followings...

[Ferro-alloys.com] Before the year 2012, China was always the largest ferrosilicon producer as well as the largest ferrosilicon exporter in the world. Russia began to surpass...

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to UN trade statistics, world imports of FeSi (Si>55%) have ranged from 2.3 million tonnes to 2.5 million tonnes in the past several years. Main importers of FeSi were Japan, South Korea, Germany, the United States, the Netherlands...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]This week, silicon metal prices held steady in European and American market. It quoted at €2,050-2,100/mt in Europe and it was ¢134-141/1b in America.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In the middle of April, calcium silicon export market ran weakly in China. Meanwhile, prices hang upside down seriously. Export price of CaSi30# was USD2,180-2,200/mt FOB and 28# was USD2,100-2,130/mt FOB at Tianjin port.

Magnesium market was blooming with active transactions due to the increasing demand from consumers. Most of the Mg ingot producers are in full capability with very few or almost no stockpiles in plants.

Chinese ferrosilicon market hovered in the first ten days of April. Domestic price slightly dropped down compared with that in end-March.