In September and October 2014 there were some new large ferrosilicon furnaces into operation and the overall operation rate much improved in some production regions.

Chinese Mg Ingot Producers Showed Unwillingness to Continue Lowering Quotations in China

[Ferro-Alloy.com]Most of China’s steel mills have raised their December purchasing prices for high carbon ferrochrome, which released the downtrend pressure of chrome ores. Currently, the prices for most chrome ores remained stable.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]As most steel mills raised their purchasing prices of ferrochrome for December, 2014, the domestic ferrochrome prices started to rebound. Meanwhile, the supply remained a little tight and there were purchasers awaiting to make orders from the...

According to the statistics of Korea Customs, Korea’s ferroalloy import volume was 88,201 mt in October 2014, down by 4.3% M-O-M and down by 11.9% Y-O-Y. The import sources and volumes were as the followings, South Africa, 21,125 mt; China, 18,700 mt; India, ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In October, 2014, China exported 279mt vanadium pent oxide, down 20.5% M-o-M (351mt) and 21% Y-o-Y (354mt).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In October, 2014, China exported 631mt FeV, 25% higher than September(504mt) and 1.04times than last October (308mt).

Electrolytic manganese metal (EMM) market in Europe fell down by large recently. According to the latest data of MB, warehouse price of