Nickel prices softened by 0.14% to Rs 692.90 per kg in futures market today as speculators trimmed positions amidst low demand from alloy makers in the spot market.

In June, Japan imported Mn & articles thereof, including waste & scrap totally about 5,679.405mt, imports’ value was about 1,394,055,000yen. Among them, it imported 4824.797mt from China, accounting for about 84.95% of the total imports. And then was South Af...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeMo60 was quoted at RMB64,000/mt by acceptance. In early August, the tenders of big steel mills ended, transaction price lowering to RMB60,000/mt by acceptance.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Though The State Bureau of Material Reserve speeded up its pace saving molybdenum oxide, China’s molybdenum market remained sluggish since oversea molybdenum oxide price continued its drop.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] because of the downtown silicon metal market in July, and the price of silicon metal have fell the lowest line, now almost the price about silicon metal 553# without oxygen was RMB10100/mt to RMB10300/mt

Though prices of major kinds of cored wires are dropping, when reflected on quotation prices, it seems a little weird. There might be a price gap of RMB 1,000 on quotation prices of cored wires of same grade and package. Some enterprises believe that fierce pr...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In recent period, Price of Malaysia in China Mn30-32Fe10-12 ore quoted at RMB20-21/mt. Since alloy producers still tend to purchase mainstream kind of ore,

China’s major stainless steel mills lowered their tender prices of high-carbon ferrochrome in early July, creating a new low, which indicated that the bottom in recent two years was broken through. On the other hand, Baosteel and Tsingshan Group released thei...