In the first quarter of 2015, Chinese economy conditions didn’t changed more.

The market price of low-grade silicon metal in China rose again during 17th to 19th of March, and the price meant for domestic consumption was up by CNY150 - CNY250 per ton from the end of February.

On Mar.24th, all ferroalloys enterprises in Wulanchabu areas of Inner Mongolia, China was notified to shut down for 7 to 10days regardless of the environmental conditions.

According to the latest Customs statistic, China exported 83,433 tons of ferroalloys (products with HS code below 7202 and silicon metal) in February 2015, dropping down by 17.8% M-O-M and wildly up by 54.5% Y-O-Y. In Jan-Feb, 2015, the total export volume was...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Shanxi Wenxi Yinguang Magnesium Industry was one of the largest Mg alloy suppliers in Shanxi, managing 11 unit enterprises, Their Mg ingot capacity reached 50thousand mt, Mg alloy 30thousand mt, 95% of which were exported to USA, Canada, Ger...

Recently, electrolytic manganese market prices remained stable in Europe.

In the second half of March, electrolytic manganese metal price was RMB 11,600-11,700/mt, were flat M-O-M, down by 8.6% Y-O-Y. While in Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, the price of 6517 GB SIMn was RMB5,450-5,650/ mt, in Guangxi, it was RMB5,800-5,900/mt, both dow...

ChengKou County started manganese industry seriously inadequate. Affected by the lower price, there were a few processing enterprises starting to work, 8 SiMn enterprises, 300,000 tons of production capacity, only one came back to produce , with 50,000 tons pr...