[Ferro-Alloys.com]After the National Day holiday, this week the price of silicon metal continued to stabilize, supply and demand relationship to the old customers, the advent of the fourth quarter of the silicon metal market will become a watershed:

1 because of the south district will go into the normal water period, low water period, the production cost of enterprises increase and the price will increase in the late market;

2 the current price between North and south was almost the same, for example,Huangpu port, Tianjin port, 441# is the same as 11100 yuan / ton basically, and for the enterprise is currently a loss of business, electricity price rise to corporate financial pressure, so the latter price will up;

3 due to the low demand in the domestic downstream market turnover deserted, silicon metal export encounter factors such as low price inquiry does not support a large number of market inventory capacity.

4. The domestic mainstream market currently occupy three areas of Yunnan, Sichuan, Xinjiang, and from September area operating rate year decline, and in September the rate of operation currently: 60%, 50%, 70%, with the dry season arrival in Sichuan and Yunnan area, stopped furnace will more, but Xinjiang has increased furnace production at the end of the month.

So in the near future with the increase about the price of electricity is also a strong corporate external offer. And for the current domestic chemical grade silicon metal prices difficult uplink at present, is expected to dry after a period of organic silicon factory purchase price or higher trend, chemical grade silicon metal prices or growth.

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• [Editor:tianyawei]