In the fourth week of November, calcium silicon market functioned smoothly in China.

Chinese core wire market was still in downturn last week. In Henan province, ex-work price of Ca98%min∮9㎜Ca wire stayed around RMB12400-12600/mt

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

China, the world' s leading coal producer and consumer, is to levy resource tax on coal on the basis of sales instead of production from Dec. 1, in a move to shore up the dim industry and improve the deteriorating environment.

Economic interests have outweighed, if not eliminated, old grudges in East Asia. China, Japan and South Korea negotiated again in Tokyo last week for a trilateral free trade agreement. There were no concrete results this round, but Sun Yuanjiang, chief negotia...

[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...